Joan Frances Knaggs

Joan Frances Knaggs

March 15, 1932 - October 02, 2010

Joan Frances Knaggs

March 15, 1932 - October 02, 2010

Obituary

Joan Frances Schario Knaggs, age 78, a resident of the Palmia community in Mission Viejo, California passed away on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at Mission Hospital after a long lung cancer illness.

Joan was born March 15, 1932 in Kitchener Ontario Canada, the youngest of four children, Leon, Dorothy and Mary. She enjoyed a loving childhood and married Robert, her husband of 57 years, on June 20, 1953. Opportunity brought them to Los Angeles in 1957 to live in Burbank, California. She had much success as a fashion model and in TV commercials until she became a full time homemaker after the birth of her sons, Rob and Ryan. Joan and the family moved to Santa Ana in 1972 and again to Mission Viejo in 1997. Her interest was mainly a love of family and comforting, as well as gardening, but her national recognition was from her manufacturing company ‘Loveable Lasting Treasures’ that produced and successfully marketed artist teddy bears for many years.

Joan will forever be missed by Robert, Rob and Laura, Ryan and Debbie, Kelly and Kristy, and her sister, Dorothy and nieces, Judy and Jane.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Kilian’s Catholic Church, Mission Viejo on Saturday, October 16 at 11AM, reception afterwards, with interment at 2PM at Ascension Cemetery, Lake Forest, CA.

The family is thankful for the kind assistance, support and comfort of the staffs of Mission Hospital, O’Connor Mortuary and St. Kilian Catholic Church.

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19 responses to Joan Frances Knaggs

  1. Such a beautiful woman, human being, and soul–“Mrs. Knaggs”–I will always remember you, and be comforted knowing that your beauty and love lives on…forever.

    “he who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    Peace be with the Knaggs family–and all who are missing and grieving our Joan.

    Love,e
    John M.

  2. Ryan and Family,

    My thoughts and prayers are with you. Your mom made the world a wonderful place with her beautiful spirit and will always be remembered by all those lucky enough to know her. I hope that fond memories of such a lovely woman will warm your hearts and help you through this time.

    Sincerely, Kerry McGinnis Chapman John’s sister

  3. Dear Ryan,
    I send my heartfelt sympathy to you, over the loss of your mother. She was a beautiful lady, warm and out-going. Her memory will live on in the hearts and minds of those whose lives she touched. We will see you, with your kind and gentle ways, as the carrier of her gracious legacy.
    May God bless and sustain you and your family.
    With love, Ruth McGinnis

  4. Ryan, I know you lost not only your beautiful Mom, but also your best friend, and I am so sorry. My love and sympathy to you and your family.

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