Joseph Leo Stiff, 86, passed away June 19, 2020, in Webster, Texas.
He was born July 16, 1933, in Owensboro, KY to Robert Sidney Stiff Sr. and Florence Elizabeth Stiff.
At 10 years old, he worked as a paper delivery boy for the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer.
At age 17, he joined the Air Force, where he trained as an aircraft mechanic.
He served in Korea and was discharged from the Air Force in December of 1954.
He married Felecia Caporina in Houston in July of 1955, and they had eight children.
He worked as a machinist for Reed Tool Company from 1955 until he retired in September of 1998.
He had a passion for baseball and loved to travel to watch spring training.
After retirement, he purchased a motor home and traveled around the country touring the country’s baseball fields.
In a brief biography he wrote during his retirement, he closed with, “Life has been fairly good to me.”

Joe is survived by his former wife, Felecia Jo Humphries; their eight children and their spouses,
Margaret and Mary Sue Austin, Chad Mognett, Sue and Leslie Knight, Steve and Diane Stiff,
Debbie and Bruce Kirby, John and Trina Stiff, Jo Ann and Don Paul, Don and Sylvana Stiff, David Nicholas and Prissy Stiff,
his 19 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren;
sister Pat Stiff Briley and husband Charles; brother Richard Stiff and wife Rita;
and brother Dave Stiff and wife Connie; as well as numerous other family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Robert Stiff, and wife Carolyn; and sisters Mary Margaret Stiff and Elizabeth Ann Stiff.

Joe is memorialized at Stiff Chapel Cemetery    |    Joe's 75th Birthday    |    Other Pictures of Joe Stiff