Joanne Wilder
Delray Beach, Florida
February 11, 2026
Through will power and stubbornnessand daily visits and calls from her familyJoanne Tedder Wilder lived independently until a month shy of her 91st birthday. She died February 12 2026 after a brief stay at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach. Joanne was born to Minnie and Aaron Tedder at their home outside of DeLeon Springs on March 16 1935. She was the youngest of four children the baby and grew up in the last vestiges of frontier Florida. Her family had chickens hogs and cows in the yard and an orange grove out backand no air conditioning to cool summer nights. In 1942 the Tedders moved south to Belle Glade and she traded a beloved maple tree and oaksmadeforclimbing for Australian pines and flat muckrich farmland. At 12 after a day of swimming bicycling and horseback riding Joanne went to sleep with a fever and woke up the next morning…
