OUR DEAR SISTER AND MY TWIN SISTER, JOANNA, PASSED AWAY ON JUNE 1 AT THE PRINCETON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. SHE HAD A BLOOD BACTERIAL INFECTION, WHICH CAUSED HER TO HAVE SEPTICEMIA, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, MITRAL VALVE INFECTION, OPEN HEART SURGERY TO REPLACE MITRAL VALVE, KIDNEY FAILURE, DIALYSIS, AND ENDING WITH HER POOR HEART JUST FAILING COMPLETELY.
PLEASE KEEP ALL OF US IN PRAYER.
WE MISS HER TERRIBLY, BUT "WE CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS US". PHILIPPIANS 4:13.
TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS,
ENJOY BEING IN HIS GOOD GRACES!!
YOURS IN CHRIST, WANDA AND GEORGE
HER OBITUARY IS STILL POSTED AT bdtonline.com
ALSO THERE ARE PICTURES POSTED ON MY FACEBOOK UNDER "WANDA BIGNOTTI SIMONS".
June 3, 2010
Joanna Bignotti Brooks
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
PRINCETON — Joanna Bignotti Brooks, age 68, of 11-B Woodcrest Addition, Princeton, W.Va., and formerly of Welch, passed away on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at Princeton Community Hospital.
Born on March 20, 1942, in Capels, W.Va., she was a daughter of the late Pete John and Caterina Dallamotta Bignotti. She had lived in Princeton since 1965 and was a 1960 graduate of Welch High School and the Bluefield Sanitarium School of Medical Technology. She was of the Catholic faith. She was a lab tech for Princeton Community Hospital and retired from LabCorp in Princeton in 2004.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Bignotti; a brother, Frank Bignotti; brothers-in-law, Bob Stover, I. Tunis Corbell, Jr., and J. Donnie Brooks; sister-in-law, Dorothy Brooks Daugherty; nephew, Michael; and a great-nephew, David; and father and mother-in-law, John R. and Della Verner Brooks.
Survivors include her loving husband of 45 years, Robert L. Brooks of the home; two brothers, Matthew Bignotti and Maxine of Largo, Fla., Pete Bignotti and Gudrun of Montclair, Va.; sisters, Dina Corbell of Garden Grove, Calif., Frances Stover of Brooksville, Fla., Sylvia Hutchison and Jack of Lake Havasu City, Ariz.; twin sister, Wanda Simons and George of Bluefield, Va.; brother-in-law, Jim Daugherty of Bluefield, Va.; sisters-in-law, Lynn Brooks Davis and Mike of Charleston, Donna Brooks of Winston-Salem, N.C. and Dorothy Mitchell Bignotti Pack; a host of nieces and nephews.
Joanna will be lovingly remembered by her family and friends as kind, warm, compassionate, and always very caring. Her heart was not only for humankind but the many pets that had brought so much joy to her life, lastly her precious brown lab, Shadow. She also had a great love for nature and this wonderful world our Savior has provided.
Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell, W.Va. with Father Paul Wharton officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton where Scott E. Simons, Dr. George R. Simons, Rick Lemon, Jim Daugherty, Pete Bignotti, and Mike Davis will serve as pallbearers.
Friends may call on Friday from 9:00-11:00 a.m. at the funeral home.
A bereavement dinner will follow the funeral at the home of Wanda and George Simons.
Online condolences will be accepted at www.cravens-shires.com
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell is serving the family.
