South Burlington woman enjoyed a variety of activities, but her Christ Church Presbyterian family was especially important to her Joanne Dawson Granai, age 92, died peacefully on October 22, 2024, taking her confident selflessness, compassion, empathy, tolerance, sharp mind and sharper wit with her to reunite with her husband, Ed, almost 10 years to the day that he made his journey, following their 60 years of marriage. Joanne was born May 5,1932, in Rockville, Md., to Henry and Jessamine Dawson. She graduated from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville and received her RN in 1953 from the Union Memorial School of Nursing in Baltimore. While training as a nurse, she met Ed. They married in 1954 and proceeded to follow Ed’s early career, ultimately settling in Ed’s home state of Vermont with their three children in 1969. Joanne lived on Killarney Drive in Burlington until 2018, when she chose to relocate to the Harborview Retirement Community in South Burlington, where she enjoyed the company of many old and new friends. Joanne liked travel, cooking, baking, sewing, reading, the Celtics, the Red Sox, UVM Basketball, hiking, cross-country skiing, canoeing, sailing, fishing, British sitcoms, “Jeopardy” and the “Carol Burnett Show.” Some of the places Ed and Joanne visited were Italy, Alaska, Guadeloupe, Maine, Florida, the Rockies, England, Switzerland and France. Holding a special meaning to Joanne was the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where she lived for a year as a school-age child and returned to visit as an adult. Most sacred to Joanne were her family, her friends, the family’s Camp Hesitate in South Hero, and the communities of Killarney Drive and Christ Church Presbyterian. Joanne volunteered in many ways, including with Meals on Wheels and JUMP and by tutoring and helping out in various capacities at her kids’ and grandkids’ schools. And no words, except possibly faith, can describe how much her Christ Church Presbyterian family meant to her. Joanne was predeceased by her sister Janet Kirby, Janet’s husband Parker, niece Jody (Kirby) Pugh, brother-in-law Cornelius Granai II (Kio), Kio’s wife Loraine, nephew Cornelius Granai III (Skip) and brother-in-law Norman Vercoe. Joanne is survived by her children and their spouses, Janet Granai-Benway and Gary Benway of Port Charlotte, Fla., Judith Granai Martin and David Martin of Troy, N.Y., and Matthew and Kathryn Granai of Colchester, Vt; seven grandchildren, David Dussault (Sarah), Loni Branon (Kyle), Jordan Martin (Jennifer), Benjamin Martin (Katarina), Hayley Martin (Humberto Mestre), Anthony Granai and Michael Granai; five great-grandchildren, Lyla and Eli Dussault, Declan and…