User:Jonibh

Joni Belinda (Story) Hannigan was born in Alhambra, Calif. in 1961 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1980. She married John C. Hannigan in 1980 and had two children, Belinda, 1981 and John (Jonathon) Joseph Hannigan III in 1983. She lived in California, Maryland, West Germany, Missouri, Indiana and Georgia, before moving to Jacksonville, Florida in 2002. Joni was a high school English and journalism teacher and freelance writer until becoming the managing editor of Florida Baptist Witness in 2002. In 2006 her son, John III, had a son John IV "Joey" in Jacksonville, Florida. Joni has written extensively on the Terri Schiavo case and her articles in Florida Baptist Witness and on Baptist Press are searchable through the internet.