Joyce A. Gurski

JOYCE ANN GURSKI, 80, OF SCHUYLKILL HAVEN WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD ON 4 MARCH AT HER RESIDENCE.

BORN IN PIEDMONT, SC, 18 AUGUST 1938, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE NELL CLARDY.

JOYCE WAS AN EXCELLENT STUDENT AND A GRADUATE OF PELZER HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 1956. HER LOVE FOR CHILDREN HELPED REALIZE HER GOAL OF BECOMING AN LPN, LABOR AND DELIVERY, WORKING FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY AT SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, BELLEVILLE, IL, TRIPLER ARMY HOSPITAL, HONOLULU, HI, AND FORT BELVOIR HOSPITAL, LORTON, VA. JOYCE LOVED BEING A NURSE AND RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS AND ACCOMMODATIONS FOR HER DEDICATED SERVICE OF OVER 25 YEARS. JOYCE WAS AN AVID READER AND GARDNER WHO ENJOYED SHARING HER PASSIONS WITH WHOMEVER SHE CAME IN CONTACT WITH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF JERUSALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH OF SCHUYLKILL HAVEN.

JOYCE IS SURVIVED BY HER LOVING HUSBAND OF 61 YEARS, CHARLES, THREE SONS, RODNEY AND HIS WIFE LILLIE; RANDY AND HIS WIFE DORIS; RICHARD; ONE DAUGHTER, ROBIN AND HER HUSBAND JOHN; FOUR GRANDDAUGHTERS, MELISSA AND HER HUSBAND TREVOR RICHARDS, MELANIE AND HER HUSBAND JUSTIN, DEAR LOVE, KRISTEN AND HER HUSBAND JASON JOLIVETTE AND LAUREN HEELEY. TWO GRANDSONS, MATTHEW GURSKI AND NICHOLAS HEELEY. FOUR GREAT GRANDDAUGHTERS, ABIGAIL, MADELEINE, AND OLIVIA RICHARDS AND SOPHIE JOLIVETTE. TWO GREAT GRANDSONS, GABRIEL JOLIVETTE AND OWEN DEARLOVE, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

A VIEWING WILL HELD AT GESCHWINDT-STABINGAS FUNERAL HOME INC., SCHUYLKILL HAVEN ON 7 MARCH, FROM 09:30 AM UNTIL THE TIME OF SERVICE.  A CELEBRATION OF LIFE FUNERAL SERVICE CONDUCTED BY REV. DAVID ROWE WILL BEGIN AT 10:30 AM.  INTERMENT SERVICE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING AT FORT INDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEMETERY, ANNVILLE, PA.