Update On Joanne
____________________________ A meeting place for the FRIAMILY of Joanne Daquano _____________________________Wednesday, September 6
Deb Marks - special Moments
There are obviously so many great things about Joanne, and at times like this so many special moments with her come flooding back. There are three that keep coming to me that I wanted to share. 
Dean and I have had a very hard time having children, and years ago I remember Joanne and I really talking about it and she comforted me more than anyone. She has always had so much strength, even before she knew she really needed it. We sat and hugged in my car on our way to Dina Brauns baby shower. She has a way of really understanding people, and I can just hope that I have given just some of that understanding and support in return. Since then we adopted our son Adam from Russia and Mike and Jo supported us through the whole process and wrote a wonderful reference letter for our homestudy.
The second memory is a couple of summers ago at a cottage, Joanne and I got to have a girls week with the kids and Joanne was going through her chemo then. We sat on the dock in the sun while Darcy painted our toes and we drank wine. When we were alone Joanne expressed her fears of what all the treatments were doing to her children. I told her that her kids are the sweetest people I know, caring, empathetic, lovely children. I said that it was awful what she was going through, but it was giving them some life lessons that were helping them and turning them into remarkable people. Little Dean is our godson and I love him so much. We have had the kids with us a lot, they have joined us up at Beaver Valley to ski and snowboard and Dean has been up North for a few weeks with us this summer doing lots of water sports. He is always helpful and adds so much fun to the cottage.
The third memory is when we asked Mike and Jo to be the godparents to our son Liam who is now almost 3. We were sitting in their family room and Joanne began to cry when we asked, she was so happy.
Mike, Joanne and the kids are family to us, words cannot express how much we care and we will be there for you always.
Love always
Deb Marks
Dean and I have had a very hard time having children, and years ago I remember Joanne and I really talking about it and she comforted me more than anyone. She has always had so much strength, even before she knew she really needed it. We sat and hugged in my car on our way to Dina Brauns baby shower. She has a way of really understanding people, and I can just hope that I have given just some of that understanding and support in return. Since then we adopted our son Adam from Russia and Mike and Jo supported us through the whole process and wrote a wonderful reference letter for our homestudy.
The second memory is a couple of summers ago at a cottage, Joanne and I got to have a girls week with the kids and Joanne was going through her chemo then. We sat on the dock in the sun while Darcy painted our toes and we drank wine. When we were alone Joanne expressed her fears of what all the treatments were doing to her children. I told her that her kids are the sweetest people I know, caring, empathetic, lovely children. I said that it was awful what she was going through, but it was giving them some life lessons that were helping them and turning them into remarkable people. Little Dean is our godson and I love him so much. We have had the kids with us a lot, they have joined us up at Beaver Valley to ski and snowboard and Dean has been up North for a few weeks with us this summer doing lots of water sports. He is always helpful and adds so much fun to the cottage.
The third memory is when we asked Mike and Jo to be the godparents to our son Liam who is now almost 3. We were sitting in their family room and Joanne began to cry when we asked, she was so happy.
Mike, Joanne and the kids are family to us, words cannot express how much we care and we will be there for you always.
Love always
Deb Marks
posted by Ted D # 1:08 PM 
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