Joan Sharot Sinramm of Southold died May 28, 2015. She was 69 years old.
“Joannie” was born in Brooklyn on July 29, 1945 to Margaret (Eckart) and Wilbur Sharot. She grew up in Hollis, Queens and was a top student throughout her elementary and high school years.
She summered in Southold in the late 1950s with her family, married Otto “Chip” Sinramm in 1970, and later moved to Southold in 1975.
She attended Adelphi University, Southampton College and Suffolk County Community College, maintaining a 4.0 grade point average. She began a 13-year career at American Tobacco on Park Avenue in the typing pool and was quickly promoted to one of the most prestigious secretarial positions in the company, assigned to the senior executive vice president.
She later worked for a local Southold builder, George Ahlers. She then moved on to estate work as a legal secretary with Rudy Bruer and later Camenetti and Gibbons. Her remaining career was for the Southold Town Highway Department as secretary to superintendents Ray Jacobs, Pete Harris and Vincent Orlando.
For many years, Joan was an avid tennis player and did fundraising for the Huggy Bear Invitational Tennis Tournament and East End Hospice. She was a talented artist and gifted writer. She had a great appreciation and love for music, art and literature. She was fun-loving and enjoyed the holidays, always finding special gifts for her family and friends. She was creative and intelligent, and most of all, loving and caring, always thinking of others before herself, even in her most difficult times.
Joan touched everyone she knew, from her lifelong friends to the people she worked with and the everyday folks she would see in town. She was truly one of a kind. Words fail to fully express who Joan really was. As the Frank Sinatra recording says, she was “Too Marvelous for Words.”
Joan was predeceased by her husband, Otto (Chip). She is survived by her cousin, Craig Von Bargen of Peconic, his daughters, Lauren Von Bargen of Astoria and Blair Mauri of Park Slope, Brooklyn, and cousins Claire Harding of Halesite, New York and Robert Sandmann of Milford, Connecticut.
Services were held June 8 at DeFriest Grattan Funeral Home, and she was buried at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
