Joanne Elizabeth Mitchell

Joanne Elizabeth (Krupski) Mitchell, 89, of Somersworth, NH, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Friday, November 18th, at home from cancer. She was born on June 27th, 1933, in Woburn, MA, to Peter and Anna (Narkiewich) Krupski, of Woburn. She grew up in Woburn until her family moved to Marblehead, MA in 1948. She is predeceased by her sisters, Helen Krupski and M. Bette Kurgas, and her brother, Paul Krupski. She graduated from Marblehead in 1950, and it was there that she met her husband-to-be, Donald D. Mitchell, Jr. They were together for almost 60 years and married for 51 years. She went on to graduate from business school with high honors and later graduated from the Bay State Academy in airline business, and was valedictorian of her class. Joanne worked for Pan American World Airways, in Boston for a few years, and then General Electric, in Lynn, MA, until her marriage in 1957. Joanne and Don moved to Wolfeboro, NH in the late 1960's to raise their family. She was a homemaker who...