Joey Carstenson, JoeyEA - You Will Be Missed

Joey Carstensen passed away on October 26, 2006. A occupant of Delray Beach, Florida, she is survived by her mother, Ardean Bradfield, her two sons, Steve and Ted, and four grandchildren. She was preceded in decease by her husband, Jim.

Funeral services were held on November 2, 2006, at the Dorsey E. Earl Ian Smith Memory Gardens Funeral Home, in Lake Worth, Florida. Graveside services followed at Lake Worth Memory Gardens.

Using the silver screen name JoeyEA (or joeyea), she was a frequent subscriber on respective online accounting forums, including the QuickBooks Community forums, where she had almost 2,500 posts. On another accounting forum, quickbooksusers.com, she had over 6,200 posts.

Joey was an Enrolled Agent, a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and a Professional Tax accountant. Her business, Carstenson Accounting Services, started in 1989. She worked in the accounting community for over 25 years, and served as as Technical Editor for Sir Leslie Stephen L. Nelson, writer of many well known accounting books.

As news spreading of her passing, many people in the online accounting community expressed daze and sadness. For those who frequent the online accounting forums, JoeyEA was a well-thought-of and well-recognized name. Lisa Peterson, of Streamline Consulting Inc., expressed a sentiment felt by many others:

"There are so many modern modern times when I postponed to her taxation goddess wisdom, and just recently there have got been a couple times where I said to myself, 'I wish Joey would bell in here.' She was an AMAZING giver of her clip and knowledge. Seems like even during taxation time, she made clip to assist people out here. Funny how I can lose person I've never met."

Joey's desire to assist people was clearly conveyed by the sheer volume of stations on the accounting forums. Her gentle tone of voice was apparent as well. One colleague, ScottK (screen name QuickBooks Guy), wrote of Joey:

"I retrieve her telling me that she was thankful for the Internet because it enabled her to aid others from a distance, as well as be portion of a community. It enabled her to aid others because she liked to assist them, and because she liked the interaction with others."

Not only was she known for helping people with her cognition of accounting and taxation, Joey was also known for her sense of humor. Here are a few things people have got said:

"She seemed to be all business, but she had the best wit and sense of humor, and loved to share it!"

"Joey was always giving the best advice with good temper and eternal patience."

"She was always ready with a good joke."

"She sent me some of the best gags via electronic mail I ever received."

Joey's necrology appeared in the Palm Beach Post. Read it here:

http://www.legacy.com/PalmBeachPost/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=19792171

Joey's household have established an online invitee book. This is a perfect chance for all of us here, in the online community, to allow Joey's household how much we appreciated her. If you knew Joey, or if you were helped in any manner by her online posts, won't delight take a minute to subscribe the invitee book? It will intend a batch to her family. It will only be available for a limited time:

http://www.legacy.com/PalmBeachPost/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=19792171

Thanks for all you did Joey. You will be missed.