Holly JoAnn Pedersen
Holly JoAnn Pedersen, 43, of Siloam Springs, died Sunday,
Aug. 26,
2018. She was born
Dec. 8, 1974, in Columbus, Ohio, to Donald
Bondo Pederson and Audrey Ramona Johnson Pedersen.
She attended Columbus, Ohio, public schools, graduated from Fayetteville High School in 1993 and was attending the University of Arkansas as a full-time graduate student. She had also operated the Pederson Funding Company, an online finance business.
She enjoyed family activities, especially with her son, Dillon, and had a great spirit of adventure. She jumped out of airplanes, swam with dolphins and loved to travel. She went to Rome with Dillon, went zip-lining in Costa Rica, attended Spanish immersion sessions in Mexico, and went skydiving twice with Dillon. She was a competitive pole dancer and had a great interest in physical health and nutrition.
She was a compassionate and zealous activist on behalf of animals and showed the same enthusiasm for the preservation of the environment. She attended several Buddhist retreats in France, Costa Rica and had great interest in meditation.
She was preceded in death by her precious and much loved only child, Dillon Kalub Jones, who was born March 30, 1995, and died July 28, 2018.
Survivors are her parents of Pea Ridge; five siblings, Ted Pedersen (Ayda) of Duluth, Minn., Barbara Harmon (Wesley), Paula Pedersen, Donna Davis (Jason) and Roger Pedersen, all of Fayetteville; eight nephews and nieces; five grandnephews and grandnieces; as well as many close friends, members of the Kalub Jones family; special friends, Kimberly Jackson and John Giannone; and others who loved and admired her.
Visitation followed the memorial service at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, in Sisco Funeral Home Chapel in Pea Ridge, with the Rev. Dr. Scott Stewart officiating.
Memorial gifts may be made to Siddhayatan.org spiritual retreat and animal sanctuary at Windom, Texas, 75492, or a charity of your choice.
Online condolences maybe made at siscofuneral home.net.