On Friday, July 12, 2019, with her loving husband Rick, and daughter Stacey by her side, the Lord took this beautiful, shining light home, and left the world a little sadder place.

Jo was born on a military airbase in Lakeland, Florida on December 7, 1944, to Arthur and Alice Quick. At the time her father Art was a U.S. soldier in Germany’s Ardennes Forest, where he fought the Nazi scourge in Bastogne with the 101st Airborne. Art survived the Battle of the Bulge, and soon after the war ended, the young family moved to Tucson, Arizona.

While growing up in Tucson, playing with geckos, and running barefoot in dusty streets, Jo was joined by the birth of her younger brothers Tim (1948) and Terry (1950).

Sometime in the late 50’s, the family followed Art’s career to San Jose, CA, where Jo graduated from Leigh High School in 1963, and attended DeAnza College in Cupertino.

Jo went to work for Pacific Bell Telephone Company as a telephone operator in 1966, She soon advanced to the equipment sales division, going through the Baby Bells breakup, and finally retiring from AT&T’s Lucent Technologies in 1999, as a well-regarded Large Equipment Systems Sales Representative

Jo was blessed with the birth of her daughter Stacey in 1968.  As Jo went through the happiness and heartbreak of being a young wife, and then a single mom, and after love found and lost, Jo met the man who would adore her for the rest of her life, her husband Rick. They met in Clovis, CA in 1982, where Rick was working on a PG&E hydroelectric project. This vibrant and energetic lady captured his heart, which she held onto for the rest of her life

Making their home first in Middletown, CA, and then Sacramento, Rick and Jo married in 1987, and moved to Granite Bay, CA, where Jo lived happily for the next 32 years. 

Preceded in death by her parents Arthur and Alice Quick, and her brothers Tim and Terry, Jo leaves behind a broken-hearted and loving family, including husband Rick, daughter Stacey Bronzini, son-in-law Michael Bronzini, nephew Jeff Quick, and grandson Brandon Bronzini. She also leaves behind many loving brothers and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces, and a host of good friends.  She is also greatly missed by her two loving cocker spaniels, Millie and Gracie.

Jo was a good friend to many people, and she gave her time and her heart to help her community. She was an 18 year hospice volunteer for Sutter Hospice, and she also volunteered for several years at the Kaiser Women’s and Children's Center. Just looking at the organizations to which she volunteered speaks volumes about this kind woman, and where her heart was.

If you would like to share a picture, leave a comment, or relate a story about this kind and loving lady, please do so on this site, which will remain here as her tribute. And then come back and visit from time to time, Jo would like that.