Joan Louise (Kirkpatrick) Zinn

Joan Louise (Kirkpatrick) Zinn, age 72, of Grants Pass, died Thursday, March 5, 2015 at Three Rivers Medical Center.

Private services have been held. Interment was at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors were in charge of arrangements.

Memorial donations may be made to Rogue Valley Humane Society, PO Box 951, Grants Pass, Oregon 97528.

Joan was born January 24, 1943 in Des Moines, Iowa to Everett & Ilene Kirkpatrick. She lived in Iowa before moving to Elk Grove, California. On September 2005 she moved to Grants Pass. For several years she worked at JJ North’s.

Her hobbies included gambling, yard working, gardening and her pets.

Survivors include her former husband, Lloyd Zinn of Medford, Oregon; three daughters, Debbie Swank Cockrill of Sacramento, California, Tina Zinn of Grants Pass, Oregon and Terri Collins of Redding, California; a son, Robert Zinn of Grants Pass, Oregon; 9 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death was her son Steven Swank; grandson, Trevor Schoonmaker; sister, Rosetta Perez, brother, Everett “Leroy” Kirkpatrick; her mother, Ilene Henry and her father, Everett Kirkpatrick Sr.