Jo was the matriarch of a large, extended family which loved and doted on her in extraordinary measure. Nieces and nephews and their children would travel to see her regularly after her husband Fred passed away in 2001, and she was as popular and beloved an individual one would ever come to know.

Born in 1922 in Salt Lake City, UT to Salim (Ed) and Nadima (Edna) Sheya, she was first-generation Lebanese–American and married another first-generation Lebanese man, Fareid Caesar (Fred) Malouf in 1941.

They raised two children, Teresa Ann (Terry) and Brian Frederick in Van Nuys, a suburb of Los Angeles, CA where they lived from 1945 to 1989. Fred and Jo moved to Fort Collins, CO together in ’89, and Jo relocated to Louisville, Boulder County, in 2011. She passed away peacefully on June 9, 2014 at the age of 91.

She is survived by both her children, their spouses Cindy Malouf and Dave Walker, all those nieces and nephews, and three grandchildren, Devyn, Jarett, and Niko Malouf.