Goldwater Joanne

American businesswoman from a noted family, the eldest child of Senator Barry Goldwater and his first wife Margaret "Peggy" Johnson, wealthy daughter of a prominent industrialist. Joanne Goldwater, a mother of four, runs Goldwater’s Foods of Arizona. Her only son, Ty Ross, is a former Zoli model, openly gay and HIV positive, and the one who inspired Barry Goldwater "to become an octogenarian proponent of gay civil rights." One of her three daughters, CC Goldwater, is a filmmaker who in 2006 completed an HBO documentary about her grandfather, Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater. Link to Barry Goldwater: Family Read less