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Joan M. Frederick

Niskayuna, New York

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Frederick, Joan M.NISKAYUNA - Joan M. Frederick, a beacon of joy and melody, passed away peacefully on October 1, 2024, at her home in Niskayuna, N.Y., after a valiant 33-year battle with multiple sclerosis. Born in Hartford, Conn., on March 25, 1950, to the late Robert and Agnes (Keating)...

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I am offering my condolences to the Frederick family in particular to Meghan, who ceaselessly cared for her mother to the end.

To the wonderful Frederick - Madama family: If there is a better and more poignant example of love and devotion than the way this family took care of one another, we are not aware of it. We´ve thought often about how Joan lived so bravely and with such joy despite her MS, how Dick took care of his wife every day for so many years and looked upon it as a privilege, and then when Dick was afflicted with Alzeimers, how their daughter Meagan stepped in to take on the Herculean task of taking...

To Dick, Meaghan, Michael, Jules, and Michael and Diane, I send my sympathies for your loss. The Joanie I knew was smart and funny and loving. She had a rapier sharp wit, likely honed by listening to the constant repartee between the "boneheads". I smile when I think of her running and dancing, laughing and singing through the gates of heaven. She was and is a treasure. Lovingly, Cousin Judy