Lasting Memories

Joann Storum
1935-July 16, 2006
Atherton, California

Joann Storum, wife, mother and business woman, died July 16 after a 2-1/2-year struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the family home in Atherton. She was 71.

She and her family moved to Menlo Park in 1969 and to Atherton in 1998.

Ms. Storum learned the real estate business while her husband, Bill Storum, made the transition from working with Chevron to starting his own business in 1977. She made the President's Club all four years that she worked at Fox & Carskadon in Menlo Park. Then she pitched in and helped her husband with his business, Auto Pride Car Wash, until 2005.

Born in Solano Beach, Ms. Storum grew up in Coronado and was chosen Miss Coronado when she graduated from high school in 1952. She worked in the Hotel Del Coronado's publicity department and attended San Diego College for Women, now the University of San Diego.

She married Bill Storum in March 1955 when he was a lieutenant in the Navy. They lived in Washington, Nevada and elsewhere in California before settling in Menlo Park.

Ms. Storum is survived by her husband of 51 years and their four children: Ken Storum, an oral surgeon in San Diego; Bill Storum, an attorney in Chesapeake, Virginia; Steve Storum of Menlo Park, who is in the family business; and Marie Mitchell of Santa Rosa. She had 11 grandchildren.