Vito, Andrea and family, my heart is with you in this most difficult time. My love and gratitude are Joanna's always. Whether it was a person who met her once in a checkout lane, or someone warned that she might slam the door in our face but instead she embraced and loved us "like a real daughter" with no walls between us, she lived only for love and changed lives eternally because of it. Your loss is as deep as her love was. Joanna’s impacts are more vast than you could ever know (because she for some reason also had that very Italian way of hiding most of her private everyday secret joys from her sons). I am very grateful for your love and care for her - you made her life worth living, and she would have remained just a confused immigrant (not only to America, but to the ways of the world) all her life if not for you. May your boys carry on their nonna’s spirit.

Doreen Paradeis Lopes "Nini"
you sent me to Italy, so ironic, WI
Posted: 6/7/2025

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You are in our thoughts and prayers….

The Cychosz Family
Slinger, WI
Posted: 6/6/2025