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    Joan Beverly Kroc (née Mansfield, previously Smith; August 27, 1928 – October 12, 2003), also known as Joni, [2] was an American philanthropist and third wife of McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.

  3. Dec 22, 2016 · Joan Kroc parlayed his fortune to become one of the greatest philanthropists of the 20th century, inventively supporting liberal causes that would have made the conservative businessman...

  4. Feb 14, 2017 · When Ray Kroc met Joan Beverly Smith in a Minnesota piano bar one night in 1957, he was instantly smitten. No matter that he was 25 years her senior, or that they were both married to other people, or that he was still hustling franchises for a fast-food hamburger stand owned by two other guys.

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  5. Nov 19, 2016 · With Ray's death, Joan Kroc became one of the principal philanthropists in America. And she really took that responsibility seriously, didn't she? NAPOLI: She lived large, and she gave large.

  6. Mar 13, 2004 · On a spring day two years ago, when making surprise gifts of staggering sums was still pure fun for the Big Mac billionaire — before she felt the deadline pressure of terminal cancer — Joan Kroc stood briefly before a crowd of Salvation Army officers and San Diego dignitaries.

  7. joan’s operation cork Joan was at the forefront of the addiction education movement in the 1970s. Her Operation Cork promoted education of principles common to Al-Anon.

  8. Nov 5, 2016 · Why did McDonald’s heiress Joan Kroc leave more than $200 million of her wealth to NPR and not a cent to PBS? Because no one at PBS returned a phone call. That’s one of the revelations reported by longtime public radio journalist Lisa Napoli in her new book, Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All ...

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