Joyce asked me to come two times in these recent times for conversation and consolation. She was an early friend when my wife Alice and I arrived at Holladay Park Plaza and was a passionate advocate and support for improving health care services. I have great sadness with her dying.
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I knew Joyce from a Caregiver support group. I admired her passion, knowledge, and love of her children. My thoughts are with her friends and family.
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Brenda Eng
2017, University Village, Northeast University Village Street, Seattle, WA, USA
Joyce was my professor at the University of Washington. School of nursing. She encouraged me to follow my dream which was to establish the first freestanding Children’s Hospice in North America in Vancouver Canada.. She always said that I was her inspiration but in fact she was my inspiration and peanut gallery. Despite the hard balls life threw at her she always picked herself up and kept going, teaching us about resilience, caring and kindness.
We reconnected later when she was the director of nursing at Concordia. She continue to inspire and nurture those who wanted to enter into the profession of nursing. She was a prolific writer and I have both her nursing textbooks autographed by her. Whenever she came through Seattle we would gather and have a meal together and laugh and share good memories.
Safe journey and Godspeed. Joyce. You crossed my mind many times this autumn. I wish I picked up the phone to hear your voice one more time and laugh with you.
A pillar. Mentor. Friend. A compassionate nurse to the end!
Be kinder than necessary.
Brenda
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My friendship with Joyce dates from 1993 when a group of nurses gathered to plan the celebration of "100 years of public health nursing." Joyce became chief editor for "Opening Doors: Stories of Public Health Nursing" a book of stories by public health nurses in Washington and Oregon. Joyce was interviewed for the documentary "Opening Doors: 100 Years of Public Health Nursing" exemplifying the challenging work of public health nurses. When I visited Joyce in Boca Raton, Florida, I enjoyed the palm trees, fake alligators on the lawn, stories unique to her Haitian students, and a drive to Key West. Returning to the West Coast, she accepted the invitation to develop the program, curriculum, and emphasis for nursing at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. What I appreciate most were the hours together spent in discussing our families, nursing practice, issues of social justice, picnics with Durlyn Finney in Allen, WA, remodeling her kitchen in Portland, walks, good meals shared at my table in Olympia, Sunday brunch at Holliday Park, and above all her love for Greg and Joel. Thank you, Joyce, for the memories of a life committed to nursing practice, justice, and love of family. I cherish those memories.
Barbara Young
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God speed old friend.
Joyce was a large influence in my life. A kind, reliable and stalwart friend, a good listener with a degree of authenticism one does not see every day. I saw her last year when I travelled down to Portland from Seattle to see her , in spite of Covid it had felt like something we wanted to do. We sat in the park at the Rose Garden and shared an Asian meal and talked endlessly about everything. I feel privileged to have known her so well. Thank you Joyce, for being there.
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What a loss to us all! Joyce was such a caring person, so active in helping others. She called us to be better people. I will miss her.
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