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Street. Joan Franklin will be greatly missed by her family and many <br />friends in the City. Councilmember Franklin requested that tonight's <br />meeting also be closed in memory of his mother, and requested that <br />the following obituary notice from the Orange County Register be <br />included in the minutes of the meeting: <br /> <br />Joan Franklin had a way of showing she cared <br /> <br />Joan Rolleen Franklin <br />Born: <br />Died: <br />Survivors: <br /> <br />Memorial service: <br /> <br />Feb. 22, 1933, Blue Mound, Kan. <br />March 6, 2002, Orange <br />Husband, Don; daughter, Deborah; sons, Brett, Scott, Kurt, <br />Matthew; stepbrother, Robert Stoufer; seven grandchildren <br />11 a.m. March 22, First Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana. <br />Arrangements by Brown Colonial Mortuary, Santa Ana. <br /> <br />Obituary: She was a nurse, a nurturer and a compassionate listener who saw the <br />worth in everyone. <br /> <br /> By ROBIN HINCH <br />The Orange County Register <br /> <br /> Unlike her husband, Don, who charged around from one point of interest to <br />another, or her daughter, Deborah, who had to read each historical marker, Joan <br />Franklin, while visiting Ireland not long ago, just sat in a park, watching and chatting with <br />people. <br /> At the end of the day, she knew as much as - if not more than - her husband and <br />daughter combined about the town they were visiting. <br /> Historical buildings had their place, to be sure, but for Joan, it was the people <br />who counted most - and from whom she learned the kinds of things she wanted to <br />know. <br /> Joan cared deeply about the human condition - how people lived, what they <br />thought, what brought them joy or fear. She had a gentle way of drawing them out, <br />getting them to share their thoughts and ideas, and a persistent way of defending the <br />rights of the underdog, <br /> Power and prestige didn't impress Joan much. It was humanity that touched her <br />and the knowledge that there is extraordinary worth in every human being. <br /> She was a nurse, a nurturer, a compassionate listener and a subtle adviser who <br />could dispense advice as painlessly as she could administer a flu shot. And she was <br />known for her painless shots. <br /> Joan was 69 when she died of cancer March 6. <br /> She was born Joan Rolleen Elliott in tiny Blue Mound, Kan. She was 11 when her <br />mother died and her father moved the family to Parsons, Kan., where she graduated <br />high school in 1951. <br /> She obtained a nursing degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center, <br />where she later worked as a nurse, and in 1955 married Don Franklin with whom she <br />had been friends since seventh grade. <br /> <br />COUNCIL MINUTES <br /> <br />123 APRIL 1, 2002 <br /> <br /> <br />