Joan Helen (Reilly) Donahue was born on March 7, 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio United States to John Leo Reilly and Mildred Greeta Reilly, and had a sister Patricia Jean Zoldak. She married Matthew Lawrence Donahue on November 23, 1953 in Steuben County, Indiana and they later divorced. She had children Barbara Joan Corrigan and Patricia Jean Donahue. Joan Donahue died at age 74 years old on April 7, 2004 in Olmsted Falls, and was buried on April 10, 2004 at Holy Cross Cemetery - in Brook Park, Cuyahoga County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Helen Donahue.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!