Mary Jo was the youngest of three children of Joseph and Mary Donnelly McGowan.[1] She grew up[2] and graduated from high school in Benson, Minnesota, where her father published the local weekly newspaper. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Arizona and joined the San Francisco Examiner as a reporter.
She married Air Force pilot Lyle Stouffer and they are the parents of five children. During Lyle's 22 year career in the service, the family lived in many locations around the US and the globe, before retiring to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mary Jo and a business partner ran Academy Travel & Tours in Colorado Springs. Mary Jo and Lyle often served as tour escorts to many locations around the world. After selling the business in 1995, they retired to Tucson, Arizona, where Mary Jo remained active in the social ministry projects of St. Frances Cabrini Parish.
Mary Jo died at the home of her daughter in Denver, Colorado, at age 84.[3]
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