Joan Mondale: 1930 - 2014

Gallery: 11/5/2002: Former vice president Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan, talked with supporters at the Lyndale United Church of Christ, in south Minneapolis, where they rallied door to door campaign workers to get out the vote.

Gallery: Feb., 1997: Joan Mondale molded a pot at the Warren McKenzie studio along with fellow artist Kerry Rasmussen. The studio is near the Stillwater area.

Gallery: Joan Mondale in the Mondale's renovated home in Kenwood, June 17, 1988

Gallery: 11/03/02: Joan Mondale made her way through the cheering crowd of supporters gathered at a Get Out The Vote rally at the UAW Hall on Ford Parkway in St. Paul.

Gallery: Joan Mondale on moving: "....We're in a different chapter of our lives now. We have an empty nest and don't need six bedrooms." March 23, 1992 Joan Mondale, above, who spent a good part of her married life campaigning for her husband, Walter Mondale, when he was running for Minnesota attorney general, U.S. senator from Minnesota, vice president and president - says she found almost all of O'Brien's novel realistic and insightful, June 23, 1988.

Gallery: 7/27/2004: Former vice president Walter Mondale and wife Joan along with Amy Klobuchar listen to Al Gore speak at the Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center in Boston, Mass.

Gallery: Rev. Spenser D. Simrill carried the remains of Eleanor Mondale Poling who passed away in September, 2011, at age 51, after a long battle with cancer. He was joined by family members, including Chan Poling (Eleanor's husband, behind, left) and parents, former vice president Walter Mondale and Joan Mondale.

Gallery: 11/5/2002: Former vice president Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan, walked past lines of local and national media as they walked into St. Paul's Episcopal Church near Lake of the Isles, to cast their vote.

Gallery: Walter Mondale is hugged by his daughter Eleanor as his wife Joan looks on at the St. Paul Civic Center in Minn., where Mondale conceded to President Reagan, Nov. 7, 1984.

Gallery: (Left-to-right) U.S. Vice-president Walter Mondale, wife Joan Mondale, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and wife Rosalynn Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York. Associated Press file photo.

Gallery: President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with Joan Mondale as Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale brings them together on the stage after debate at night on Sunday, Oct. 7, 1984 in Louisville.

Gallery: Nov. 6, 1984: Walter Mondale is embraced by his daughter, Eleanor, with his wife Joan at his side, as supporters wave after Mondale's concession speech after the 1984 presidential election.

Gallery: Walter and Joan Mondale and Nancy and Ronald Reagan get together on the stage after a debate in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 7, 1984.

Gallery: 12/13/1996: Former sumo wrestling star Oyakata Azumazeki shakes hands with Walter and Joan Mondale at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo.

Gallery: U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, right, his wife Joan, and daughter Eleanor, left, bend their heads in prayer, July 1, 1978 at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. They had just arrived in Israel a few hours before.

Gallery: April 20, 1977, Joan Mondale spoke with comedian Bob Hope during a reception prior to a dinner of the Girl Scout Council or Greater New York Inc. Both were guests at the dinner in New York's Waldorf-Astoria. Mrs. Mondale urged the Girl Scouts to "intensify and extend" programs involving the arts. "Children who go to museums, attend concerts, see plays, who pursue creative activities, grow up with the arts in their lives and the arts enrich and fulfill them as adults," she said.

Gallery: September 10, 1977, Joan Mondale met Carrie Bliss, 91, the earliest known volunteer worker for the Minneapolis Symphony, now the Minnesota Orchestra. Watching was Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, music director of the orchestra. It wasn't Joan Mondale, wife of the vice president, who opened the Minnesota Orchestra's 7th season Friday. It was Joan Mondale, Carter administration arts advocate. That's not what the program for the first concert of the season called the former Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra usher, but it's a title she clearly prefers. "I'm lucky that my new life allows me to become an advocate for the arts. It's an interest I've had all my life".

Gallery: July 28, 1977, Joan Mondale, wife of the vice president, was accompanied by former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, center, on a tour of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library on the University of Texas campus in Austin. At right was Library Curator Gary Yarrington.

Gallery: Joan Mondale served breakfast, October 21, 1984.

Gallery: Joan Mondale chatted with Pam Mondale during a break in class at the Twin Cities Obedience Training Club. They were attending the dog training class with their dogs, Ginger and Michi.

Gallery: March 17, 1978, Joan Mondale, wife of Vice-President Walter Mondale, held back a giggle at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts as she listened to museum director Harry Parker. She was in Dallas to examine art objects that will be displayed in the vice-presidential mansion for a year.

Gallery: May 9, 1978, Joan Mondale fed a kangaroo Monday at a nature reserve near Canberra, Australia. Watching was Wendy Andrew, 7, of Canberra. Vice President Walter Mondale said Monday that the United States, New Zealand and Australia will hold joint naval exercises in the Indian Ocean soon to demonstrate power in the region where there has been a Soviet naval build-up. AP Laserphoto

Gallery: July 19, 1964, Joan Mondale At Drop-In Range Behind stove is children's art. "I'm so proud of my husband"

Gallery: At a Mondale family fund-raiser, Joan Mondale met the press Friday to unveil "The Mondale Family Cookbook," which she said will be given as a gift to friends but can be bought for $25 by anyone wanting to help the presidential Campaign of her husband, Walter, the Democratic nominee. The candidate is known for his culinary exploits, including fixing Thanksgiving dinner for the family. August 11, 1984

Gallery: Walter & Joan Mondale are shown with children Eleanor (age 5), William (age 3), and Teddy (age 7) at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. June,1965.

Gallery: Joan Mondale in her home in Minneapolis, 2002.