Jo Ann Bass, matriarch of Miami Beach landmark Joe’s Stone Crab, dies at 94

Jo Ann Bass, matriarch of Miami Beach landmark Joe’s Stone Crab, dies at 94

Jo Ann Weiss Sawitz Bass, the matriarch of the landmark Joe’s Stone Crab, died Saturday in hospice at her Miami Beach home across the street from her family’s restaurant. She was 94. Bass helped lead Joe’s Stone Crab, the oldest surviving restaurant in Miami Beach, for decades and into her late 80s. Joe’s predates the incorporation of the city in 1915. That happened two years after Joe’s founding. She worked there even before World War II had en…