Joanne T. (Kilday) Diblasi, age 82, passed away on September 21, 2016. Joanne was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 8, 1934 to the late Helen (Murtaugh) and Jay Kilday. She moved to Council Bluffs with her family in 1949, where she attended and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1953. She married Thomas Diblasi on February 16, 1957, and raised four children. She worked at Creighton University as the Office Administrator of the Department of Surgery for 25 years.

Joanne… loved to travel, volunteer at The Center, go on gambling trips with her friends, Swedish weave, play bunco, read and spend time with her grandsons.

Joanne is survived by her daughter, Barbara and husband Randy Gregg of Fort Scott, Kansas; her son Robert of Des Moines, son Michael and grandson Max of Ames, and son Paul and grandsons Zachary and Jason of Thornton, Colorado; brother, John and wife Anita Kilday; sisters, Mary Wilke, Peg and husband Ed Pender and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Tom in 2000; and her sister, Eileen Shipley.

Recitation of the Rosary conducted by the Holy Family Altar & Rosary Society: Sunday at 4pm at Cutler-O'Neill Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home & Crematory.

Wake Service with visitation with the family: Sunday from 6-8pm at Cutler-O'Neill Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home & Crematory.

Funeral Mass: Monday at 11am at Queen of Apostles with a luncheon at the hall after internment at St. Joseph's Cemetery.

Memorials: The Center in Joanne's name.