Joyce Duncan: A memorial — Share your stories
A heartfelt thank you to all of you who made it to the service yesterday. It was an exhausting, but important event that helped us understand how important Joyce was in all of our lives.
I will have pictures and video up as soon as my office computer starts to behave. Sorry for the delay to all of you who couldn’t make it.
Thanks,
Rob, Arleigh and Cam
Joyce Duncan is a remarkable woman.
She was born in Winnipeg, but first played on the shores of Grassy Narrows, 50 miles north of Kenora, at a Hudson's Bay outpost. In 1950, civilization called, and the Hughes family moved to Kenora, Ontario.
She enrolled in mathematics at University of Waterloo, and then teacher's college at Queen's. Her first posting was to Alderwood CI in Etobicoke.
She finally gave in to some boy who seemed to follow her around (from Kenora, to Waterloo, to Toronto), and was married to Cam Duncan on March 18, 1972.
She taught full-time for 30 years, raised 2 kids, ran the household and still had time to casually ask if you thought you were making good use of your time.
She died on October 2, 2009.
We miss her already.