Nora Joann Giles Korbelic, 80, of Wylie, passed away on January 25, 2017 at the Autumn Leaves Nursing Home at White Rock Lake. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at the chapel of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home with interment at Forest Park Cemetery immediately following service. Visitation with family will be held at 12:30 p.m. until service time at the funeral home.
Joann was born in Colbert, Oklahoma on September 6, 1936 to Angus McCaleb and Lona McCoy Giles. She married William Joseph Korbelic on January 22, 1955 in Denison, Texas. She was an office clerk at the Greenville Hospital for 8 years and worked as a farmer, winemaker, fixer of all problems, homemaker, and feeder of the worlds children. Joann was a long time member of St. Williams Catholic Church and in 2000 moved to Wylie where she attended St. Anthony’s Catholic Church. She was a proud member of the Red Hat Ladies Chapter Tiara Toatin Tootsie’s.
Joann is survived by her children, Greg Korbelic of Paris, Texas, Patty Korbelic-Williams of Mesquite; sister, Donella Baecht; grandchildren, Daniel Korbelic, Chris Korbelic, Neill Korbelic and wife, Connie, Sarah Korbelic-Williams, Greg Williams; great-grandchildren, Dylan and Jordyn Williams; and daughters-in-law, Linda Perez and Jill Lester as well as numerous nieces and nephews
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband; son, John; brothers, A. M., Oscar and Bill Williams; sisters, Maggie, Fern, Dolly, Lily, Lorene, Francis, Louis and their spouses.