The campus community mourns the passing of Joan D’Angelo, 95, who died Sunday, April 7. Joan retired from the President’s Office in 1998 after more than 38 years of service at Bucknell. She is remembered by Gary and Sandy Sojka as a good friend, valued confidante and knowledgeable source of information about Bucknell history, whose insight and humor were deeply appreciated.
I encourage you to visit our In Memoriam site to share personal notes of sympathy and remembrance with others.
On behalf of our entire University community, I extend our deepest sympathies to Joan’s family, as well as to all who knew her at Bucknell.
John C. Bravman
President
Joan Frances D’Angelo, 95, of Millmont, entered into rest on Sunday, April 7, 2024, at her residence.
She was born on Jan. 3, 1929, in Lynn, Massachusetts, a daughter of Michael Francis and Frances M. (McCarthy) Conley. On Oct. 30, 1959, she married John J. D’Angelo ’65, who preceded her in death on May 1, 2007.
Joan started working at Bucknell University as secretary of the Dean of Men. She retired from Bucknell in 1998 as assistant secretary for the Board of Trustees and administrator, Office of the President.
She enjoyed shopping, history and animals, especially her momma cat. She loved spending time with her family and her beloved farm.
Surviving are one son and daughter-in-law, Joseph Michael ’77 and Elaine B. Ezell, of Pensacola, Fla.; three grandchildren, Sean M. and Fang-Fang Li of San Diego, Calif., Kevin J. and Amy Ezell of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Megan (Ezell) and Aaron Wade of Pensacola, Fla.; and 6 great-grandchildren.
Family and friends are invited to the viewing from 9 to 10 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 2024, at Adamo Funeral Home, 16 Walnut St., Mifflinburg, where the funeral will be held at 10 a.m.
Interment will be in Lewisburg Cemetery.
To share in Joan’s online memorial, please visit www. adamofh.com.
Arrangements are by Dominick T. Adamo Funerals · Cremations · Monuments, 16 Walnut St., Mifflinburg.
From Gary and Sandy Sojka:
From the day we arrived on campus, Joan welcomed us with warmth and good cheer. She provided invaluable help to us in the process of becoming acquainted with Bucknell, not only its operations, but also with insights into the modus operandi of the various offices, organizations, and committees that kept the academic, fiscal, legal, and physical aspects of the University functioning. Throughout our years together, Joan was invariably discrete, diplomatic and highly competent. She was a good listener, a wonderful confidant, and an invaluable source of information about the recent history, the successes and the failures, of a university determined to take its place among the finest institutions of its type in America.
She did all of that with a wonderfully insightful sense of humor informed by years of observations of the characteristics, quirks, and foibles of the many persons with whom she interacted. It is hard for us to imagine how we could have survived our 11 years in the president’s office without the help, counsel, support and friendship of Mrs. D’Angelo.
Since her (and our) retirements, we have kept in touch with regularity. She has been a meaningful part of our lives since 1984.
Gary and Sandy