After graduating from Southwest High School, JoAnn married her husband, Mark Cook, on November 7, 1969. She then gave birth to her first child, Eric Scott Cook on November 28, 1970. She gave birth to her second child, Stacey Lynn Cook on December 20, 1976. JoAnn, her husband, father, and step-mother travelled to Israel when her son was five years old. JoAnn did not work after having her children. She was always taught that the women stay home and care for the children while the husband worked for the family. JoAnn and Mark both helped to run her father's liquor, "Lucky Strike Market" on 39th and Woodland for years. She worked in a small daycare center part-time up the street from her home. She also volunteered at the Beth Shalom Preschool and synagoge once her children began attending preshool. Once her children reached school age she began volunteering at the Hymand Brand Hebrew Acadmey Hebrew Day School in the cafeteria and at the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy Thrift Store up until our family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1986. Upon moving to Denver, Colorado she began working at the synagogue in the preschool and daycare where she stayed for almost fifteen years and decided to quit. She also became a Kindergarten teacher teaching hebrew school twice a week, as well as, running the Shabbat program on Saturdays at the synagogue. Even though she stopped working at the daycare she kept busy helping her husband with his crazy trucking company that was growing. JoAnn discovered that her daughers high school had a Child Developement Center and Infant/Toddler Center that cared for the parents teachers, as well as, teaching high school students about Child Development. JoAnn loved working at her daughters high school and she remained for seven years. JoAnn loved her children and her babies. Children were her life. She always had children all over her, they loved her. In August of 2005 JoAnn found out that she had developed Uterine Cancer. But, that did not stop her. She would go to Chemo twice a week in the morning and go to her babies after and work her regular 8-10 hour shift. Eventually, she became very ill with what we thought was bronchitis, but we soon found out that it was actually the cancer that had spread into her lungs and the chemo was not really working. The pea size little tumors she had that we thought the chemo was getting rid of had actually developed into olive shaped tumors. So, she had to give up working with her babies everyday and could no longer teach hebrew school. She fought for a very long time fighting the Cancer. She eventually lost her battle and passed away on Saturday, April 7, 2006 in Denver, Colorado. She had planned for several years to move to Kansas City, but she never got a chance to make her dying destination.  Joann is survived by her son Eric, her daughter Stacey and her husband of 36 years Mark Cook.