Obituary - Joanne Marie Lennon

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

Juneau resident Joanne Marie Lennon died Jan. 20, 2007, in Juneau. She was 74.

She was born June 25, 1932, in Bloomington, Ill., to Raymond and Dorothy Vogel. In 1953, she graduated from St. Joseph's School of Nursing in Bloomington. She lived in Seattle from 1966 to 2002, when she moved to Juneau.

She was the president of Beta Sigma Phi sorority in Juneau and a retired registered nurse.

She is survived by her children, Lori Campbell and her husband, Ray, Matt Smithberg and his wife, Stacey, Mark Smithberg, Michael Smithberg and his wife, Wendy, Helene Romero and her husband, Michael, Max Smithberg, Lenore Freeman and her husband, Jeff, Lee Ann Rebagliati and her husband, Luca, and Martin Smithberg; four stepdaughters, Gale Sinnott, Delece Lennon, Kandace Denninson and Nancy Lennon; and 11 grandchildren, Matthew Campbell, Laura Smithberg, Christine Smithberg, Andrew Campbell, Gwendolyn Smithberg, Gina Romero, Tru Hoang, Garrett Smithberg, Jeffrey Freeman, Rhea Romero and Linsdsay Smithberg.

Memorial Mass will be at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A reception will follow.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Holy Rosary School Endowment Fund in West Seattle.

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