Joan Patricia Kienlen (nee Calhoun), formerly of Narberth, PA., passed away on May 3, 2024 at her residence in Bryn Mawr, PA.  She was 95.

Joan was the beloved wife of the late John Norman Kienlen. Devoted mother of Alex (Terri), John N., Jr. (Tammy), Joseph, Ann Marie Lakin (Leonard), Christopher, Joan-Marie Eberwine (Jim) and the late Helen Marie Kienlen and Kathleen Marie Kienlen. Loving Nana of John Wesley (Katie) Kienlen, David (Ruchi) & Laura Lakin, and Paul & Grace Eberwine. Great Nana of Wesley & Oakleigh Mae Kienlen.

Born in West Philadelphia, the daughter of Ann and John Calhoun moved to Overbrook Farms in her early teenage years. She attended Mater Misericordiae Academy and Rosemont College.

In 1953, she met John ("Jack") Kienlen outside of Our Lady of Lourdes Church. They were attending a mass and were introduced to each other by their mothers, who were friends. She and Jack were married in 1954 and had eight children together, living in Drexel Hill, Upper Dublin, Bucks County and after her father died, in Overbrook Farms in the house she grew up in.

In her mid-40s, when the children were getting older, she decided to go back to work. She worked in the Athletic Department at Princeton University, and then at PECO in their Employee Assistance Program, where she won the Fellowship Award in 1985 for outstanding service. She was proud of what she was able to accomplish as a businesswoman, especially having been raised in a generation when the reason a woman got a college degree was so that "she could talk to her husband's business colleagues at dinner parties".

Joan was very proud of her 53 years of sobriety and continued to mentor others. After Jack died in 2014, she lived in Bryn Mawr with her two youngest daughters, where she loved tending to her backyard garden (something she inherited from her father from his days in Overbrook Farms), reading about history, doing her online orders, and keeping in touch with family and friends on her scheduled Zoom calls. To the very end, she remained lively, intelligent, inquisitive, and engaged with the world.

Relatives and friends are invited on Friday May 10th, Visitation from 9:30 to 10:30 AM with Funeral Mass at 10:30 AM at St. Margaret Church, 208 N. Narberth Ave., Narberth PA. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery.  For those unable to attend the services, the Funeral Mass will be livestreamed from the St. Margaret Parish website www.saintmarg.org

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Spastic Paraplegia Foundation , 6952 Clayborne Dr., O'Fallon, MO 63368-6202, sp-foundation.org.