Joanna B. Mosley

Joanna Banta Mosley passed away on July 16, 2019. Joanna was born on October 14, 1939 in Houston, Texas to William Warren Banta and Anna McCarty Banta in Houston's downtown Memorial Hospital. She attended River Oaks Elementary, Lanier Jr. High, and graduated from Lamar High School in 1957. She then attended LSU before graduating from Lamar University. After attending Lamar University, she met her future husband, Robert B. Lewis of Houston. She taught elementary in the HISD for many years. She was a devoted and loving mother to two beautiful daughters. Later, the family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and then Minneapolis, Minnesota before eventually returning to Houston. Joanna loved the outdoors and had many interests including tennis, golf, gardening, bridge, hunting, painting, boating, and horses. She loved horses and trained many young riders, and competed in horse shows locally and nationally. She later moved to Magnolia, Texas and married Jon E. Mosley of Houston who partnered in her love for the outdoors, horses, tennis, golf and hunting. There she maintained her passion for horses and tennis. Joanna was a friend to everyone, was always optimistic, and always had a big beautiful smile. Joanna in survived by her family members: daughter Melissa Lewis Fletcher (Glen) of Orlando and children Bethany Kokaia (Givi) of Sweden, Madeleine and Sophia; daughter Meredith Lewis Parnell (Ryan) of Atlanta and children William and Olivia; brother Bill Banta of Houston and children Bret, Bayard, Ashley and Bryan.