Joan Esposito was born Joan Frances Grisez on August 5, 1937 in Patterson, CA to Josephine and John F. Grisez.  She was the second of four children (James, John Patrick and Jay Michael Grisez).  In the early 1940s, the family moved to a ranch in nearby Crows Landing, CA.  Joan was a student at Orestimba High School in Newman, CA where she played several different sports.  Joan went on to the University of San Francisco to study nursing.  She graduated from USF in 1959, and soon after moved to Manhattan Beach.  In the early 1960s, she lived in a home on the corner of Manhattan Avenue and Rosecrans and worked as a nurse in Compton.  In 1961 she met her future husband, Daniel R. Esposito.  The two were married in 1963, and settled in Manhattan Beach on Maple Avenue.  The couple went on to have four children (Gena, Dan, Patrice and David) and three grandchildren (Aidan, Dane and Paige).  Joan was a stay at home mom, cooking all the meals, packing lunches, sewing, helping with homework, taking kids to soccer and baseball practice, piano class, YMCA for swimming lessons, girl scouts, and altar boy service at American Martyrs Church.  She drove around in the family station wagon.   In 1978-79, Joan was the American Martyrs PTA president.   Starting in the mid-1980s, Joan worked as a school nurse for the Manhattan Beach school district, where she oversaw all of the health rooms.  She also worked, at this time, in the field of audiology for the district.  Later in her career, Joan worked as a charge nurse at the Fireside Nursing Home, in Santa Monica. With the passing of her father, Joan moved into agribusiness and ran the family's ranches in California and Idaho for quite a few years.  Afterwards in retirement, Joan worked as a volunteer at the South Bay Thrift Shop in support of Children's Hospital LA, and traveled with her husband and parents to various parts of the world including France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean.  A rosary for Joan is scheduled for Friday July 19th at 7pm, and her funeral is scheduled for July 20th at 10am, at American Martyrs Church in Manhattan Beach.  In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Alzheimer's Association , as well as the Red Cross .

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