Mrs. JoAnn Pesco Yorio, age 59 of Marietta, GA, entered into eternal life Monday, September 14, 2009 after a valiant battle with cancer. JoAnn graduated with a nursing degree from St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and practiced nursing for 15 years. She then joined the Cobb County School System as a paraprofessional at Milford Elementary School. She was an active member of St. Thomas the Apostle Church and served as a Eucharistic minister. This past August she fulfilled her lifelong dream of visiting the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel in Rome. She was a devoted wife of 35 years to Joseph Yorio; loving mother to Jennifer (& husband, Lawrence) Zimmerman of Marietta, GA, Stephanie (& her husband John) Perrone of Kennesaw, GA; and a loving grandmother to Charlotte Rose Zimmerman. She was daughter to Rose Pesco of Babylon, NY and Loreto Pesco (deceased) and is also survived by her sister, Jeanette (& husband John) Bates of So. Farmingdale, NY; nephews, Matthew and Thomas Bates; and brother-in-law, Anthony Yorio (& wife Denise) of Marietta, GA. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM at St. Thomas the Apostle Church. Interment will follow at Kennesaw Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Friday from 4 to 8 PM at Davis-Struempf Funeral Home in Austell, GA. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, or St. Jude's Shrine. Condolences and memories may be offered at:

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