Joanne J. Kidwell

Joanne J. Kidwell, 81, of Fremont passed away early on Monday, September 10, 2012 at Bethesda Health Care Center. She was born on August 31, 1931 in Fremont to the late Frank & Dorothy (Batesole) Newbould. Joanne was a Fremont Ross graduate. She worked for Fremont Gray's Drug in Potter Village for 15 years, Reality One at the Vermillion Office, and Erie City Department of Human Services for 7 years. Joanne was a welfare and paternity investigator for Sandusky Office in Erie County. She was a Loraine County MLS and Erie County MLS member of the Board of Realtors. On February 14, 1978 in Clyde she married Joseph Kidwell and he survives. Joanne was a member of Abiding Word Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bowling Green and Grace Lutheran Church, Fremont. Also surviving in addition to her husband are children, Terry Vinson of Fremont, Michael Vinson of Fremont; step-children, Corinna (Ray) Fiorvinti of WI and Jason (Tracy) Kidwell of Sandusky; granddaughter, Michele Merce Garcia; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; sister, Faye Good of Fremont and brother, Perry Gibson III of Fremont. She is preceded in death by her parents and step-father, Perry Gibson Jr. and daughter, Pamela Rowden. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association or to the American Heart Association. The Herman-Kinn-Karlovetz Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Fremont has been entrusted with arrangements.