Joan D. Stover, age 90 of Bradford, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at Inspired Living \u2013 Hidden Lakes, Bradenton, Florida.\u00a0 She was born February 21, 1936 to JD and Thelma (Myers) Babylon and a graduate of Bradford High School.<\/p>\n
Joan was a diligent worker and started out at an early age selling blocks of ice, used for refrigeration.\u00a0 She worked at Atlas Underwear Company, in Piqua and later retired from Hobart Corporation, in Troy.\u00a0 In the late 80\u2019s, Joan moved to Kissimmee, Florida to be closer to her daughter and new grandson.\u00a0 She retired a second time from The Walt Disney Company, working in the Costuming Department.<\/p>\n
Joan had many interest\u2026She was an avid reader and enjoyed a good romance novel.\u00a0 Crafting was another interest, she loved creating things with her hands whether it was crocheting a blanket, painting pots for her outdoor plants, floral arrangements, and sewing quilts.\u00a0 Sewing was her main love, when her daughter was growing up, she made most of her clothes, Barbie doll clothes, curtains, pillows, and quilts.\u00a0 A highlight of her sewing career was making costumes for the Ma Cheri Baton Corp.\u00a0 Later in life she volunteered by sewing crib sized quilts that were distributed to hospitals and nursing facilities through Project Linus.<\/p>\n
Joan loved her family and was always up for traveling somewhere.\u00a0 A few highlights were Hawaii and Las Vegas, where she had beginner\u2019s luck.<\/p>\n
Preceded in death were her parents and two brothers, Gary and Tom Babylon.\u00a0 Joan is survived by her daughter, Diane (Larry) Polhamus of Windermere, Florida and grandson, Adam DuBois of Winter Garden, Florida.\u00a0 Nieces and Nephew, Tammy (Justin) Rogers, Greenville, Tom (Dawn) Babylon, Covington, Dr. Jennifer (Greg) Blackburn, Winter Haven, Florida and Mary Jo Babylon, Winter Haven, Florida.\u00a0 Plus, extended family members.<\/p>\n
The family would like to thank Inspired Living, Ocoee, Florida, and Inspired Living \u2013 Hidden Lakes, Bradenton, Florida (where she was affectionately known as Grandma) for the years of love and care shown to her.\u00a0 In addition, thank you to Vitas Healthcare of Manatee County for providing medical and spiritual guidance.<\/p>\n
Celebration of Life at a later date.\u00a0 Condolences may be shared with the family at www.stockerfraley.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan D. Stover, age 90 of Bradford, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at Inspired Living…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24066,24064,24065,28,30,29,24070,24068,20526,148664,24072,24071,24062,24069,148663,24063,24067],"class_list":["post-366584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caskets","tag-cremation","tag-embalming","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-funeral-arrangement","tag-funeral-flowers","tag-funeral-home","tag-funeral-home-in-covington-oh","tag-funeral-planning","tag-funeral-pre-arrangement","tag-funeral-services","tag-pre-need","tag-stocker-fraley-funeral-home","tag-traditional-funeral-service","tag-urns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}