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Early life
Her mother, Gladys Bonnebelle Mansfield, was born April 5, 1906, in Luck, Wisconsin, to Herman Conrad Peterson and his wife Emma Bonnebelle. Joan's mother, an accomplished violinist, studied music at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis and started teaching at age 15.

Philanthropy
One of Kroc's first philanthropic endeavors was Operation Cork in 1976 in La Jolla, California. It aimed to inform doctors and other health workers about the dangers of alcoholism. Before that, she gave money to Rapid City, South Dakota for flood relief and to the local library.

After Ray's death in 1984, Kroc tried to donate his team, the San Diego Padres, to the city of San Diego, but Major League Baseball rules forbid public team ownership. Joan sold the team in 1990 and turned her attention to philanthropy. She drew controversy when she alluded to paying star and future Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith to maintain her garden at a time when he was refused a raise by her team's general manager.

The Joan B. Kroc Foundation donated $18.5 million to the San Diego Hospice Corporation (now known as San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine) in 1985 to create its multi-purpose hospice center. The donation covered the cost of planning, land acquisition (6.5 acre), construction and interior furnishings of the center.

Kroc also supported the Ronald McDonald Children's Charities and Ronald McDonald Houses.

The ranch in Santa Ynez, California that Krock inherited from Ray, known as the J & R Double Arch Ranch, was sold in 1990 to Gerald Kessler, an impresario in the vitamin supplements business.

Honor
Joan Kroc was inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2004 hosted by the Women's Museum of California, Commission on the Status of Women, University of California, San Diego Women's Center, and San Diego State University Women's Studies.

Death and legacy
Her will included significant bequests for a number of organizations.


 * $10 million for the Zoological Society of San Diego, which runs the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park
 * $5 million for San Diego's KPBS public radio and television stations

On August 25, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Kroc would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit. The induction ceremony was on December 1, 2009, in Sacramento, California. Kroc is also featured in the Museum's "California Remarkable Women" exhibition, which was founded by Shriver in 2004.