Joan and Bob Gamba Memorial Scholarship Endowment

Joan and Bob Gamba were married August 6, 1952 and celebrated 53 years of marriage in San Francisco until Joan passed away from cancer in 2006. One week after they were married Bob went off to Germany where he served a year and a half in the Army during the Korean War. Bob started work as a shorthand cook, and later held journeyman status in both carpentry and plastering. He passed away in 2017. Joan cared for, encouraged, and educated her three children Mike (Chris), Mary (Kevin), and Ray (Aida). Later in life she served as the parish secretary for Saint Paul of the Shipwreck near Candlestick Park. Joan and Bob dedicated their lives to supporting and caring for their family and countless others who could rely on them to help in anyway they could. Their greatest treasures were their grandchildren, Patrick, Bobby, Parker, Danny, Jack, and Flora. Joan and Bob believed in education and offered their own family the opportunity to explore it by any means and this scholarship is for a continuing student in Social Sciences to experience that same opportunity.