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Joan Frances McMenamy

June 19, 1939 - March 31, 2022

Joan Frances McMenamy, 82, of Orlando, Florida entered Heaven on Thursday, March 31st 2022. She was born on June 19th 1939 in Hampton Virginia and as she grew up attended high school at Hampton High School. Upon graduation attended James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Upon graduation she was employed at “NASA” at Langley field in Virginia for a time. After meeting her husband Joe and upon engagement they would move to Cocoa Beach, Florida where they got married and she would work at Kennedy Space Center as a financial analyst during the “Space Race” of the 1960s. They later moved to Dallas Texas where she raised her children and was known for a gift of hospitality entertaining guests in their home, with supper clubs and social gatherings and bridge groups. She was a lifelong member of Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, TX, where she participated in the bell choir and adult Sunday school class. Each year in the Spring she enjoyed making trips to Perote Alabama where the family hunted, fished and had family cookouts with extended family and enjoyed company with her siblings and their families. In recent years she and Joe would move to Orlando Florida where they would enjoy their grand childrens’ athletic events and family holidays. She is survived by her husband, Joe McMenamy; son Jay McMenamy and his wife Julie of Tulsa, OK; daughter Jill Riggs and her husband Greg of Oralndo FL; brother Samuel Hixon and family of Richmond, VA; sister Sharon Scott of Stephenville, TX. In addition; she is survived by her six grandchildren Emily, Connor and Kaley Riggs, and Joshua, Gabi, and Gracie McMenamy. The family requests instead of flowers; that donations can be made to Joans favorite ministry “Campus Crusade for Christ,” at “give.cru.org” Zoom Link: https://staffweb.zoom.us/j/6880709322

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Joan Frances McMenamy, 82, of Orlando, Florida entered Heaven on Thursday, March 31st 2022. She was born on June 19th 1939 in Hampton Virginia and as she grew up attended high school at Hampton High School. Upon graduation attended James Madison... View Obituary & Service Information

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