Joan Vassos, the first-ever main woman of ‘The Golden Bachelorette,’ was married 32 years earlier than her husband’s demise in January 2021.
Regardless of being an early frontrunner throughout the first season of The Golden Bachelor, college administrator Joan Vassos sacrificed her budding reference to Gerry Turner to be along with her daughter throughout a troublesome time. Everybody admired her for placing household first, and ever since, followers have been rooting for Joan to search out her personal fortunately ever after.
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Fortunately, their want is coming true as a result of, on Could 14, 2024, ABC introduced that Joan would be the main woman for the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelorette! Now, earlier than we dive into her seek for a second probability at love, let’s discover her first marriage.
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Who was ‘The Golden Bachelorette’ star Joan Vassos’ first husband?
Years earlier than making use of for the fact courting present, Joan was married to her husband, John Nicholas Vassos, for 32 years. Nevertheless, on Jan. 18, 2021, he sadly handed away after a two-year battle with pancreatic most cancers. John was 59 years outdated.
In response to his obituary, John was born on Nov. 27, 1961, in Washington, D.C. He was a graduate of Salisbury College and owned and operated BCE Company and CapX Options. He was a member of St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and he had a particular reference to St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Bethesda, Md.
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“John embraced life with vigor and by no means did something midway. If you happen to have been his pal, he liked you eternally and would do something for you. He was identified for his epic generosity, and it’s unimaginable to rely the variety of folks and organizations he supported,” the obituary mentioned.
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The obituary additional talked about, “The seaside was his most favourite place on the earth, and sitting on his dock at sundown with household and mates was his heaven on earth. … He liked watching sports activities, and there was at all times a recreation on the TV. He would even watch cornhole if there wasn’t anything on!”
Joan mentioned John at all times made her “really feel secure.”
On the third anniversary of John’s demise, which fell on Jan. 18, 2024, Joan took to Instagram and shared a photograph of the couple with their 4 youngsters. She wrote, “Some days it looks as if it simply occurred, and I am unable to catch my breath, nonetheless feeling the shock of it. Different days it appears like he is been gone a lifetime, these days are worse as a result of I am afraid the recollections are fading. I feel that is what scares me probably the most.”
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“He was the husband that at all times made me really feel secure and cherished,” she continued. “He was the guardian that was at all times the enjoyable one as a result of that is all he knew methods to do… fortunate youngsters as a result of enjoyable in his guide was typically epic. I may go on for hours.”
Joan concluded, “Actually, I feel that is how he would wish to be remembered… by not forgetting him. Please hold telling the tales, don’t be concerned, they do not make me unhappy… let’s be sincere, most of them are humorous! Because the Greeks say, ‘Could his reminiscence be everlasting.'”