Joan Reimann was born in Mitchell South Dakota. She was the firstborn of three children with one brother and one sister.Joan has enjoyed the opportunity to travel to eighteen foreign countries: Canada, China, Germany, Egypt, Mexico, Belgium, Israel, Bahamas, Lichtenstein, Austria, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, New Zealand, Slovakia, Italy, and Hungary.
Before calling Arizona her home, Joan resided in South Dakota, Wisconsin, California, Ohio, Tennessee, and Washington.
As a teen, Joan dreamed of becoming a parish worker or medical worker. Between her career as a Medical Clerical Specialist and a vast array of volunteer work, she followed that dream, but took a different turn in a final two-year career as a restaurant owner.
Joan has been married to Erwin for fifty-eight years. They have one son, one daughter, two grandsons, three granddaughters, and three great-grandsons.
The best vacation Joan can remember was a Rotary Friendship trip to New Zealand in November, 2002. "We stayed with five different Rotarian families and one of these families were Maori. Each home was in a different part of North Island."
When Joan and Erwin lived in Madison, Wisconsin, she was a volunteer for Bethel Lutheran Outreach Program. Over the years, she has volunteered in many areas including being a Sunday School teacher to young children, room mother at their children's schools, operating room greeter, eye clinic greeter, after school activity mother in Rapid City school system and also greeted patients at their local hospital in Rapid City.