A Very Special Editor Turns a Page
by Marcia Forecki
Joyce Dunn
Joyce Dunn was a care-giver, a risk-taker, unswervingly independent, and a sharply skilled writer. She contributed her own work to Fine Lines, and served as a Special Editor for many years.
Joyce fearlessly embraced the challenges in her life, taking on the care of her two younger brothers at age eleven, when her mother became ill. Though delayed by some years, earning her nursing credentials was only the beginning of Joyce’s life-long study of natural and traditional health care. She and her husband, Jim, raised three sons. Joyce maintained a loving friendship for over six decades with a German pen-pal she first corresponded with in the second grade. Joyce was no less persevering as a writer. Through her stories, essays and three books, Joyce will continue to delight and inspire her family, friends and many fans.
Before embarking on the next part of her life’s journey, Joyce wrote a short book called My Way. In this very personal and honest work, Joyce described how she confronted cancer with her customary strength and unwavering insistence to live her own way.
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