Obituary
Joan Elizabeth Neilsen (Whitmore), age 69, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at Baptist Hospital in San Antonio from complications of heart failure. Joan graduated from MacArthur High School (San Antonio) in 1969 and received her bachelor of arts degree in European history and French language from Trinity University (San Antonio) in 1973. While studying abroad in Vienna in 1972, she met her lifelong love Tom which began their wild adventure. After college …
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