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Danny "Joe" DeMoe wrote the following three years after being diagnosed with cancer. "Think about this, everything you are doing everyday leads to one end. Death! You aren't going to live forever. What are YOU going to leave behind? ME? I want to leave humor, there is nothing better than a belly laugh that makes your gut hurt, a smile so big it makes your face cramp, laughing so hard you run out of breath, falling on the floor laughing kind of humor. That's what I want to leave behind. After I am gone in 20 or 30 years, I don't want people to get a sad look on their faces when they think of me. I want them to smile or laugh out loud remembering some stupid stuff I did just to get a laugh! Just enjoy life. I do."
Danny "Joe" DeMoe, age 58, of Floral City, FL passed away at his home surrounded by his loving family on July 15, 2018. He was born in Toledo, OH on April 10, 1960 and went on to serve his country in the United States Army. To think of Joe is to smile and remember happy, fun times. With a smile on his face, a joke on his mind, you either laugh or chase him, as the case may be, or who the joke was on. A life that has touched so many in a funny, happy and caring way will go on forever. Joe had many interests, people being first. He loved music, dancing and playing drums with a group of family and friends. Joe wrote poetry and played pool with friends. Happy with his job as "Cable Man", he got to meet a lot of people. A weekly visitor to the library, he loved to read, especially science fiction. He had many friends, he was a friend to many. Joe was always ready to lend a helping hand, or two, whether he knew you or not. He can go with pride for the life he has led.
Joe married the love of his life 34 years ago. Always a hard worker, he took his responsibilities as husband and father seriously. The backbone and caregiver of his family, he has been a great son, wonderful husband, father and grandfather. The seventh child in a family of ten is greatly loved by his brothers and sisters. We are thankful for the time we've had with him, though never enough. Glad for the time he had in Florida, he could be outside almost everyday. Go softly with love into the night my son, there is and will be an empty place in our hearts forever but, we will all meet again someday in a better place. Cancer…the mountain he could not climb.
Danny "Joe" DeMoe was preceded in death by his father, Charles DeMoe; brother, Clark Adam DeMoe; sister, Cherie Lee Abalos; and "dad", Clarence Wright. He is survived by his wife, Melonie DeMoe; son, Michael DeMoe; daughter, Tiffany DeMoe (Kevin); six grandchildren; mother, B. Louise Wright; sisters, Carol DeMoe, Sandra Moskowa (Jed), Darlene Stuard (Bernie), Charlene Meisner (Nick), Holly Sayre, and Kim Braden; brothers, Charles DeMoe (Cathy), Rick DeMoe (Tonya). Cremation care is under the direction of the Chas E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory, Inverness.
