Joanie Emily Keast

Funeral services for Joanie Keast, 58-year-old Buffalo resident who passed away Tuesday at the Johnson County Health Care Center in Buffalo following a short illness will be held Tuesday, August 19th, at 10:00 a.m. from Summit Wesleyan Church in Buffalo with Pastor Nathan Nash officiating. Donations in Joanie's memory may be made to the St. Francis Animal Shelter at 109 Flatiron Dr. in Buffalo or www.stfrancisanimalshelter.org. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com.

Joanie grew up in Concord CA and went to trade school at San Francisco Mortuary College when she was 18 years old. From there, Joanie worked as a mortician in the Silicon Valley in Palo Alto for 25 years before retiring in 2012. She was a loving wife and stepmother to four children who loved her dearly. She would make sure every year to organize a large travel vacation which always ended in a camp site in the Stanislaus Mountains. She wanted the kids to see nature and be outside. As a family we saw everything from the Grand Canyon to Crater Lake and quite a bit in between. After she retired we moved to Oregon where she started a new career pursuing new product development where she created several cooking products associated with her new brand "No Bones Life". The brand was promoted on our website and morphed into a cooking channel on YouTube. We produced 32 videos from 2015 – 2019 which still brings in traffic today. From there she started working on graphic design where she now has nearly 50K products that carry her designs on Amazon that are sold around the world. She has always enjoyed creating mosaic art and started in 2011. She went from trying small things to making large scale mosaics and moving on to wall art, custom jobs and she especially liked creating mosaic shoes. One of her shoes sold in Puerto Rico of all places. One of her boot creations won the juried art show called "My Two Hands" in Sisters Oregon. Her latest interest in the world of art started in 2022 and this was tedious work. It's called "Dot Painting" where she created smaller products that sold down at Wyoming in Color. She was the graphic artist for our new steel cutting company we just opened this year. She was a gifted cook (I called her a Chef), artist, animal lover and adventurer and most of all, a very loved, and loving wife. She worked hard at everything she did and put her entire being behind every artistic creation. She loved animals and I mean all animals. She volunteered at a rescue farm in Oregon where she picked up a Netherland Dwarf Bunny. In Oregon there was no shortage of wildlife where we lived and she adopted a Chucker that escaped hunting practices when someone missed a few hundred yards off. She would feed the birds every morning until they were landing on her head and hands as soon as she stepped out the deck door. I feel very honored and fortunate to have spent half my life with her and that I was given the opportunity to love someone so special. She was the world to me. I'm going to miss her.

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