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Joan Rahm Modi, a long-time resident of Wilmington, died in Mesa, Arizona, on June 3 after a short illness. She was 89.
Born in Ironwood, Michigan, in the iron country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, she was raised in nearby Iron Mountain, Michigan, and graduated from Iron Mountain High School in 1941. She received her undergraduate degree from Michigan State in 1948 and her Master's from the University of Delaware in 1968. In 1955, she and her husband, Ted Modi, moved to Wilmington...