Joanna Dean1 min read

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Christopher Fox Graham
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Joanna Dean

October 14, 2021

Joanna Dean, 76, formerly of Sedona, died Oct. 14 in San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico.

She loved gardening and cooking and ran her own catering operation while in Sedona.

She was preceded in death by two sisters and brothers-in-law, a brother and two nieces.

She is survived by stepdaughters Laura Dean and Melissa Dean; brother Chuck [Margie] Smith; sisters Mary Ellen [Frank] Kuttner and Charlene [Alan] Cohen; sister-in-law Peggie Smith; and 15 nieces and nephews.

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Donations in her name are suggested to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."

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Christopher Fox Graham
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."