Malis­sa Lara-Pat­ter­son

The of­fi­ciant, who knew Joseph for more than 30 years, said he loved his job."He did not take his work as a job. He took it as a vo­ca­tion. There is a vast dif­fer­ence be­tween a job and a vo­ca­tion," he said.Joseph, who was called a man of few words by William, was said to be metic­u­lous.Even when he no longer worked at the Guardian, William said Joseph would call the of­fice and iden­ti­fy er­rors in the news­pa­per.How­ev­er, he said, "I un­der­stand he was a man who shared a good laugh af­ter the work was done."One of Joseph's daugh­ters, Sha­reen Phillips brought brief greet­ings and stat­ed that Joseph was in­deed a man of few words.How­ev­er, she re­mem­bered him say­ing "all who doh hear does feel" and oth­er dis­ci­pli­nary warn­ings."He was al­ways very straight­for­ward and to the point. He will be dear­ly missed. I will al­ways have his mem­o­ry with me," Phillips said.