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Joyce Lewis Obituary
Joyce L. Lewis, age 84, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, formerly of LaGrange. Passed away on June 12, 2014 at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy.
Joyce was born on March 3, 1930 to George and Helen Richardson in Oakland City, Indiana, a graduate of Oakland City High School and nurses training at St. Mary's Hospital in Evansville, Indiana.
Joyce married Marvin Lewis on August 30, 1952 in Owosso, Michigan, and moved to LaGrange for 52 happy years. Joyce worked for over 25 years at LaGrange Women's Clinic, loved being a docent at Brookfield Zoo, volunteering at LaGrange Community Nurses Thrift Shop and spending time "walking the zoo" with her grandchildren, family and friends.
She was a loving kind and supportive wife, mother, grandmother and friend who will be deeply missed especially by her husband, Marvin; daughters, Kim Lewis and Kay Slater all from Cedar Rapids; grandchildren, Megan (Steve) Schwar of Forest Park, IL, Emily Slater of Cedar Rapids, Mark Slater of Phoenix, AZ; sister in law, Lorraine Meyer of Owosso, MI.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Louise Hubble.
Visitation Sunday, June 15, 2014 at St. Paul's Parish, 60 Akenside Rd., Riverside, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., with a Mass of Christian Burial on Monday, June 16, at St. Paul's Parish at 11:00 a.m. Burial services at a later date.
Memorials to St. Paul's Parish Foundation, St. Judes Children's Hospital or Brookfield Zoo.
Funeral services entrusted Ivins/Moravecek Funeral Home Riverside, 708-447-2261 or www.ivinsfh.com
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Karen Kopec
June 16, 2014
What a perfectly lovely woman! Among other things,she always arranged for Flu shots for the Emmanuel parishioners every year.... a very pastoral, caring lady. May she rest in peace and LIGHT perpetual shine upon her.
Martha Beaver
June 15, 2014
Joyce was a great mentor to me, as I followed in her footsteps of employment as an office nurse. She was kind, funny, loyal, supportive and an inspiration of endurance. Martha Beaver
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