Joan Stokes, wife of B.R. (Bill) Stokes, APTA’s first executive vice president (serving from 1974 to 1980), and a leading real estate agent in Northern Virginia for more than two decades, died Nov. 21 after a brief illness.

She worked out of the Great Falls, VA, office of Weichert Realtors, where she specialized in homes in Great Falls and McLean and received numerous company honors. She and her husband moved to Northern Virginia from the San Francisco Bay area in 1974, where her husband had led the struggle to finance and build the pioneering San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District transit system. 

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she was a star diver for the Fairmont Hotel, Athens Athletic Club, and U.C. swim teams under her maiden name of Joan Pringle.

More information is available through the Adams-Green Funeral Home in Herndon, VA.