Joanna Conway

Joanna Conway was a lifelong resident of the Reading, Pennsylvania area who spent nearly four decades working in the purchasing department of the electronics firm Agere Systems before retiring in 2001. <cite index="1-1">Joanna Conway, 84, of Pennside, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2026</cite>. <cite index="1-2">She was the wife of Joseph M. Conway Sr., who passed away in 1984</cite>, and in the decades since she had built a quiet, settled life centered on her family, her church and her community in the Reading suburbs.

<cite index="1-3">Born in Reading, PA, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Rose (Ziats) DiLullo</cite>, and she grew up and was educated in the area, graduating from Mt. Penn High School with the class of 1960. She went on to a long career in industry, working in the purchasing department for the Reading-area electronics manufacturer Agere Systems for 37 years until her retirement in 2001. Agere, a spinoff of Lucent Technologies that made semiconductors, was itself later acquired by LSI Corporation in 2007, closing out the chapter of the Lehigh Valley and Berks County electronics industry in which Joanna Conway had spent most of her working life.

Outside her career, Joanna Conway was a member of St. Catharine of Siena parish, and her obituary describes a woman whose life was anchored in family and faith rather than public achievement. She was not a public figure in the conventional sense: she held no elected office, published no books, and did not appear in national media. Her story matters to the people who knew her, and it is told here in full because every life deserves an accurate, dignified record, not because she sought or received wide fame.

Joanna Conway died on October 16, 2026, at the age of 84, in the Reading, Pennsylvania area where she had lived for most of her life. No cause of death has been made public. Her funeral arrangements were handled by Lutz Funeral Home in Reading, and her death was first recorded through a formal funeral home obituary rather than through news media coverage, which is typical for a private citizen rather than a celebrity or public official.

Readers searching for Joanna Conway online in the days after her death should note that the name is shared by a number of unrelated, unconnected women, including professionals, artists and athletes who appear in search suggestions alongside her name. This page concerns only the Joanna Conway of Reading and Pennside, Pennsylvania, who died on October 16, 2026, as confirmed by her funeral home obituary.