Joseph William Goarck, Sr.

So sorry Jean to hear about the loss of Joe. It is so hard to let them go after so many years. Praying for peace & comfort as you navigate this new normal. So glad we have the hope of being with them again for eternity..
Pam Barnes
Former member of EBC

So sorry . Thinking of you

Joe always gave glory to Jesus for the amazing life he lived, and I never saw him without a big smile on his face. Such a good and loving man. He will be greatly missed. Sending love and prayers for the Holy Spirit to comfort Jean and his family. Love from Paige and Mary

Loved Joe his presence his laugh his patience with others and his love for others but most for his love for Yahweh !!!

Joe is missed, loved and seated in Glory
So Be it by Yeshua

God Speed till we meet again.

Craig

Love from Sommerset HOA Friends

I wanted to take a moment to share my perspective of my friend Joe Goarck. I know i am not alone in my admiration for Joe. I consider him to be an extraordinary man and i feel blessed to have had the opportunity to call him my friend.
I first met Joe in 1998 when i was hired at CPH. It was during my first week of orientation and I recall entering the door to the outpatient wing and Joe was one of the first people i encountered. During that first meeting, i could not help noting the obvious. Joe was 30 years my senior and vertically challenged like myself, but he seemed at least a foot taller because he commanded attention with his gruff voice, i thought. I immediately assumed he might have been in the military in his earlier days and I figured he might be a bit dismissive of this young guy with long hair, which i wore back then. I figured our interaction was likely to last just a few moments with some professional pleasantries and i would be on my way. I quickly learned how incorrect that assumption was.
Joe was engaging from the start. He offered a firm handshake which i appreciated and more importantly, he took an interest in me, not only as a professional, but as a person and he did not judge a book by its cover. Joe asked a lot of questions and even inquired about my faith. I fondly recall him reaching for his candy jar full of York Peppermint Pattie’s, offering me one and taking one for himself, then continuing on without skipping a beat. Joe shared much about himself, even some very personal details, all of this during a first time meet and greet. He seemed to be an open book. We spoke for no less than an hour, and if it had not been for a scheduled patient meeting on Joe’s calendar, I suspect he would have continued sharing. As a result, he invited me to return and chat anytime and i did just that over the years.
Some of my fondest memories were created during my time working with Joe and the outpatient team. Everyone put their heart and soul into their job, but our jobs rarely felt like work. I attribute a lot of our success to Joe. He always spoke truth to power, he called it how he saw it, meaning you might not like what Joe had to tell you at times, but he knew exactly what you needed to hear. Joe was capable of offering a gentle nudge, but he also understood when individuals required more. If a verbal kick in the tail was what a situation called for to ensure progress and personal growth, well Joe would offer that up as well to ensure you could thrive, not merely survive!
Joe never struck me as an individual content with merely existing. He wanted to thrive and he wanted his friends and family to make the most of life, and this was true right up to our most recent visits. Joe believed in living life to the fullest and ultimately he helped teach so many, both through his words and his actions, to embrace all that life has to offer. These personality traits and so many more, are why Joe is an inspiration to me. He has always been a rock, a pillar of both his professional and personal community, his church, his service to country, and a support to so many people.
Undoubtedly, he was a source of support for me at CPH, but over the years he became so much more. Joe and Jean have been active participants in my life over the last quarter century. They attended a few of the biggest milestones of my life, my wedding to my wonderful wife Alicia, they happily helped celebrate the birth of our son Liam, and they attended his baptism as well. I’ve enjoyed a couple fishing trips with Joe over the years and even a brief trip to the outer banks with Joe and Jean. Their friendship over the years has been a blessing and one that I treasure today. I do not have to think hard to recall the many laughs I’ve shared with Joe over the years and even after i left CPH, and even after i moved out of state for a few years, our friendship always picked right up where we left off. I believe that to be the essence of a true friend and “being a friend” has always been a big part of Joe’s true nature.
I have no doubt Joe is smiling down upon us at this very moment. He probably is wondering why the fuss, why the heavy hearts. I think he often dismissed the importance of the role he played in the lives of so many because he was so very humble, but for those of us fortunate to know Joe, for those of us lucky to call him a mentor, for those of us blessed to call him our friend, well we know just how extraordinary a man Joe is!
I want to emphasize “IS” because though Joe is now truly at peace with our lord and reunited with all those loved ones that led the way for him to heaven, he is alive in our hearts and memories and we look forward to the day that we will meet again and pick up where we left off. We love you Joe. We celebrate you. And we trust that you will continue to watch over Ms. Jean your beautiful wife, your entire family and all of us who are blessed to have known you, to love you, and to call you “A Friend”!