Joseph P Costantino, 86, passed away April 2, 2013 in Nixa, Missouri. He was born In Sesser, Illinois. He served in the Air Force as a cryptographer in both WW II and the Korean War. Joe attended college at the University of California at Santa Barbara where he met and married his wife Diane Ruth Campbell in 1953. Joe started his 30 year career in broadcasting as a disc jockey in college. Upon graduation, he joined the original staff of KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara and worked as a weatherman, newsman, producer and director. He hosted live shows with Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Frank Sinatra and Adalai Stevenson. He spent the last years of his career in healthcare Administration at St. Johns Hospital in Springfield, Missouri and Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. Upon his retirement he spent the next 20 years teaching the history of Jazz and Blues for Rhodes Scholars and taught over 428 programs for seniors all over the United States. He is survived by his wife Diane, daughter Marsi and her husband David Thomas of Spring, Texas, daughter Jennifer and her husband Mark Pike of Nixa, Missouri and son Mark Newman and his wife Diane of Trenton, Michigan. Burial will be with Full Military Honors at Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Lake Springfield Missouri, Monday April 8 at 2:30 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home.