Joseph Bermani was born on May 7, 1918, in Connecticut, his father, Giovanni, was 35 and his mother, Giovanna, was 29. Joseph was a machinist for AP&CC. He attended adult education night classes at Trona High School and graduated in 1950. He had one son and one daughter with Phyllis J Antonaitis. Their daughter, Patricia Hudson, died in 2010. She was a member of the class of 1958 and his son David graduated from THS in 1961. Phyllis died in 2015. Joseph died on June 28, 2016, at the age of 98, and was buried in Oceanside, California.