{"id":457525,"date":"2026-10-06T01:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457525\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:32:25","slug":"helen-joanne-short-oct-31-1934-sept-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457525\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Joanne Short &#8211; Oct. 31, 1934 &#8211; Sept. 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our precious mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Joanne Short went to heaven on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Graveside Service: 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, at Greenwood Memorial Park, in Fort Worth 76107. A celebration of life will follow at a later date. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the charity of your choice. Born on Halloween in 1934, Joanne always made that day a special one for the family, with lots of treats and decorations galore! She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Allen; her parents, June and James Tangney; and her brother, Charles Tangney. Left to cherish her memory are her children, Karen McCarver and husband, David, Kathy Short, and Allen Short; her grandchildren, Jess Hewitt, Lauren Amiton and husband, Rian, Mark Foster-McCarver and husband, Riley, Mike McCarver and wife, Lena, Alaina Short, Brian McCarver and wife, Bianca, David McCarver and wife, Sherry; 11 great-grandchildren; and her dear friends Glenda Schmidt and Joan Martin. GREENWOOD FUNERAL HOME Greenwood Funeral Homes \u2013 Cremation 3344 White Settlement Road, Fort Worth 76107 817-336-0584<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>View more details from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenwoodfuneralhomes.com\/obituary\/helen-j-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">funeral home site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our precious mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Joanne Short went to heaven on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Graveside Service:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2070,3191],"class_list":["post-457525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-obituary","tag-syndication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}