BOONE/AREA CONNECTED DEATHS

       Joanna Lacey Manriquez, 87, San Jacinto, CA. Born in Boone. Lived on a farm north of Boone and attended Scrabble Hill, a one-room schoolhouse through sixth grade. BSH-56. Worked for Bell Telephone in Des Moines but moved back to Boone in 1958 after her mother's death to care for her younger brother Michael, and work in the Fareway Accounting Office. Joanna met Jerry Manriquez when they were just five or six years of age. The couple married in 1961 at Sacred Heart Church in Boone. The couple lived in Cedar Falls while Jerry attended the State College of Iowa (now UNI). After earning his degrees, including a Masters, the couple moved to California where Jerry began a 30-year career as a financial analyst with North American Aviation, Rockwell International and Boeing. Joanna worked as a teacher's aid, an admission clerk for a hospital, a doctor's office and owned and operated a laundry and dry cleaning business. Joanna and Jerry moved to Norco, CA., which allowed them to raise farm animals. They traveled the country in their RV, took trips to Ireland with relatives and settled in a senior community in San Jacinto. Family was the most important thing in Joanna's life. Survivors include her husband, Jerry, a son, a daughter, brother James Lacey of Boone and a sister.