Joan Francke Remick Post, the daughter of Joseph Gould Remick and Eleanor Huntington Francke Remick, passed away on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Born on March 29, 1931. Raised in Cedarhurst, Long Island and New York City, Joan and her husband, James McNee, chose Tryon as their final home 41 years ago.
They also had a summer cottage in Damariscotta, Maine. Joan is survived by her sister, Eleanor Huntington Remick Seaman; her children Edward Duffy French, Anne Huntington French, Gould Remick French and their spouses, Kathleen Moran French, Richard Thomas Wurzelbacher and Marianne Sysak French; her stepdaughter, Irene McNee Alexander and husband, Kenneth Alexander; her six grandchildren; three nieces and nephew; and eleven grandnieces and nephews. A true artist, she had an illustrious fashion career with B Altman & Company, setting the gold standard in bridal and women’s wear.
In her personal life, her artistic skills blossomed across many art forms, from her clothes design, including the beautiful Barbie Doll clothes she made for her daughter and matching mother-daughter outfits, to prolific needlepoint projects–pillows, chairs, and other everyday items–winning the prestigious The New York Lighthouse Show for the Blind award, to basket weaving in the style of North Carolina Indigenous arts, to her bold interior design that took everyone’s breath away. She and Jim also created intricate and refined dollhouses and shadow boxes that won best in class at the Philadelphia Flower.
