OBITUARY
 Joyce Ellen Fredette
1947 - 2009
Joyce
died unexpectedly at her home on the afternoon of April 29, with
her husband Ray at her side.
She was born in Chicago, Ill. on Dec. 21, 1947. She was 61. Her
childhood years were spent in Hammond, Ind. until her family
moved to Lodi, in 1960.
Joyce was the first Lodi High School student to go to Germany
through the American Field Service to further her knowledge of
the German language and culture. She studied at the Immanuel
Kant Gymnasium in Bad Oeynhausen. During her college years, she
attended the University of Heidelberg. She graduated from
Sacramento State College with a BA in German in 1971.
Joyce followed her husband during his 20-year naval career,
during which she found opportunities to teach German and English
at all levels at Linden and Moorpark High Schools in Northern
and Southern California and Newman Smith and R.L Turner High
Schools in the North Dallas, Texas area. Her career included
supervision of adult education for enlisted military personnel
in the Philippines and teaching German to students from all
branches of the armed forces at the Defense Language Institute
in Monterey.
She retired from teaching high school German and English at
Moorpark High School in Moorpark, in Dec. 2004, concluding a
30-year teaching and administrative career. While at Moorpark,
Joyce made time to complete all the coursework for a master's
degree in counseling through the University of Laverne. She
organized and sponsored German Club activities and field trips
at several high schools where she taught. She chaperoned several
trips to Germany for many of her students.
A colleague observed that Joyce was a kind and exuberant force
of nature. She was admired for her enthusiasm for teaching after
so many years. She was occasionally observed running bingo games
in German for her foreign language students, including Special
Ed students who wanted to join the game. Joyce had room for
everyone in her class and in her heart.
Joyce was an avid seamstress and quilter. She made all of the
gowns for a student's wedding and many costumes for high school
plays. In later years, she spent many relaxing hours doing water
colors and had many admirers of her talent amongst friends,
family and acquaintances. She also enjoyed traveling and
photography. She loved to play computer games and had many
online friends, including a woman in Canada whom she talked to
for 10 years but never met.
Joyce had a 23-year history of sobriety in AA. Joyce sponsored
many people in their efforts to become sober and maintain their
sobriety.
Joyce is deeply missed and lovingly remembered by Ray, her
husband of 37 years; daughter, Kimberly Myers of Fresno; mother,
Janet Daniels of Napa; sister, Carole and brother-in-law, Al
Johnson of Hercules; Ray's mother, Louise Fredette of
Albuquerque, N.M.; Ray's bothers, Fred and wife Tina, Jim and
wife Ann, Fran, Terry, and Jean Paul and wife Celeste; and many
nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her father, Herman
Daniels, of Lodi, and her father-in-law, Ray Fredette, Sr. of
Albuquerque, N.M.
An online guestbook is available at http://www.bryanbraker.com.
She is interred at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon.
Donations in memory of Joyce may be made to Pituitary Network
Association, www.pituitary.org. |
The Ventura County Star - November 6, 2009
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams |
Carrollton-Farmers
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