Jeanne Giordano

Jeanne Giordano, a resident at Parkway Chateau, died on April 18 at age 93. She is survived by her husband Roy, son Steve (Lynn), daughter Mary, and 3 granddaughters. She was born to Charles Herbert Caswell and Jeanne Gilchrist on July 24, 1917, in Lynn, MA. The family moved to Newport Rhode Island, then to Long Beach, CA. where she graduated from Polytechnic HS and Long Beach Jr. College. She earned her RN at the University of CA in San Francisco, and her BS and Public Health Nursing Credential from the Univ. of CA, Berkeley. She worked as a school nurse in Albany and Richmond, CA, as a public health nurse with the Richmond County Health Dept., and as a lecturer in the Dept. of Nursing at the Univ. of CA, Berkeley. In the 1940s, she helped organize nurses in Alameda County into a CIO union. She married Roy Giordano in 1940 in Long Beach, CA at Lakewood Community Church. They lived in Berkeley until Roy graduated from Boalt Law School, then moved to Orange County where they lived for almost 50 years until they moved to the Parkway Chateau. She worked for 25 years as coordinator of the Orange County Interfaith Committee to Aid Farm Workers and served on the Board of Directors of the National Farm Workers Ministry for over 30 years. She was a lifetime member of the American Association of University Women, Jobs With Justice and the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship. A Celebration of Jeanne's Life will be held Saturday, May 28, 10 a.m., Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I Street, Bellingham. Donations in her memory may be made to the National Farm Worker Ministry, 438 N. Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63130, or to United Farm Workers PO Box 62, Keene, CA, 93531.