This memorial website was created in the memory of our mom, Joyce Neil, 76, born on March 2, 1937 and passed away on March 25, 2013. We will love and remember her forever.
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Leave a tributeThink about her often!
Thought about her today! And wished her a Happy Birthday in my thoughts!
The trip to Iowa with 7 cousins great times. So many memories.
Love is forever. My love is with you girls and the guys she really enjoyed.
I love you mom....
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Please be patient.
Please be patient.
Joyce's Memorial DVD
This is the video presentatio of photos that was played at Joyce's memorial service... wonderful photos, and even better memories! Our heartfelt thanks go out to Michael Roland for creating the video.
Pumped Up Kicks
Grandma Joyce loved her grandsons in a really BIG way. She took her grandson John to and from school for many years, all the way up to high school, even up till her passing. A fond memory of John's is sharing a love of music with his Grandma. After picking him up from school, Grandma Joyce would say, "John, find me a song!" The one she wanted him to play was Pumped Up Kicks, and John would dial it up on the iPod, and she would sing right along, usually with her own version of the lyrics. What a cool grandma! I love the fact that she wanted to find things that they could enjoy together... like In-and-Out burger :)
Church directory
Joyce was the church clerk and we talked about a new membership directory for a looong time. Finally we made a form asking for any changes in member info from before. When we got a number of them back, Joyce entered them into a directory program she got for her computer. Techie that she was, her computer crashed and she could not retrieve the work she had done.
She brought the directory program to me and asked if I could enter it again. I live close to John's school and some mornings when she took him to school she would call me and ask "is coffee on". I told her if it wasn't, it would be by the time she got here. She always called and "which street do I turn on now?" So I would go out and meet her by the street.
We would talk about things we were reading or about the directory or new people at the church. We finally got the directory printed out and went to meet pastor to make foto copies at the church. Joyce found some pretty flower photos and we decided which to use for a cover. Then she came over while we put them all together. We were pretty pleased with the results. I don't know how many people realized that Joyce and I did all of the labor. She was amazing.