Joan C. Newman

September 6, 2018

GENEVA-Joan Corinne Hartigan Newman, age 85, died on September 6, 2018. Calling hours will be September 15, 2018 at 10:30 - 12:00 PM at DeVaney-Bennett Funeral Home,181 N. Main St. Geneva. Funeral services will follow at 12:00 PM in the funeral home. The Rev. Thomas P. Mull will officiate. There will be a lunch reception after the service. Should family or friends wish to make a memorial contribution, please consider Geneva General Hospital (196 North St, Geneva, NY 14456) or a charity of one’s choice. Joan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was the daughter of William Albert Hartigan and Amelia Margaret Yarrow. She grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and attended Cathedral High School in Boston, then went to Boston City Hospital’s School of Nursing. While working at Boston City Hospital’s Harvard Service operating room, she met William H. Newman, whom she married in 1959 and had two children, Geoffrey and Alison. The Newmans moved to Alexandria, Virginia while Dr. Newman served in the Army and Joan worked in the operating room at Alexandria Hospital. Moving to Geneva in 1964, they became a vital part of the medical community and organized what became the Friendship Square and Round Dance Club. Joan was active in the Hospital Auxiliary, participating in many of their follies with her love and talent for music, and was president of the Ontario County Medical Society Auxiliary. She was president of the West Street School PTA, served on the Geneva Education Advisory Committee and was involved with the Geneva Scholarship Association. The Newmans were founding members of the Geneva Opera Society. Joan was predeceased by her parents, her husband Bill, her brother Kevin Hartigan, and sister-in-law Mary Newman. She is survived by her son, Geoffrey Newman; daughter Alison Newman (Michael D’Amico); granddaughters, Meghan Lauren and Kristen Newman; brothers, Stephen and Eugene Hartigan, Muriel Coleman, and Jeanne Riddle; and her nieces and nephews.