Joyce Edholm Totlis

Totlis, Joyce Edholm
Joyce Edholm Totlis was born on June 20, 1939 in Waukegan, Illinois the first of two children of August and Lillian Edholm. She died at the age of 71 from brain cancer in St Joseph's hospital, March 17, 2011. Joyce learned the cello as a young person in the Waukegan schools and Lake Forest College. She played in orchestras and quartettes when she moved to Westchester County, New York in 1968. She received an Early Music Masters Degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Then she created programs for The New York Consort of Viols and Music for a While, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Joyce taught Medieval and Renaissance music performance at The College Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati, and worked at The Oregon Shakespeare performance festival. After retirement, Joyce volunteered at the Guild for the Blind in Chicago. In 2004 she began to volunteer at Sun Sounds Radio of Arizona for the blind or handicapped at Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona. Joyce won national awards in writing and direction of radio shows including Love Letters by A. R. Gurney and an interview with writer Alberto A. Rios. This year she included shows of "On a Note of Triumph" by Norman Corwin from 1945, and Celebration of July 4, 2010. She read Sandra Day O'Connor's history of Lazy B in Arizona in August, 2010. As a commentator, Joyce wrote travel descriptions and poetry for the Paris travel website FranceRevisited.com. Recent tour comments are to Salzburg, Austria; Alexandria, Egypt; and Barcelona, Spain. Joyce is survived by her husband of 50 years, Gust J. Totlis. Her younger brother Richard Edholm and his wife Susan. Her two children; Charles Totlis of Carbondale, Colorado and K.C. Totlis of Webster, New York with his wife Victoria Creek and three children: Lucy 4, Charlie 3, and Alexander 1. In place of flowers Joyce would prefer donations be sent to Sun Sounds, 2323 W. 14th St. Tempe, AZ 85281. Celebration of life on Thursday, March, 24 at Hansen Desert Hills Mortuary 6500 E. Bell Rd., Scottsdale, AZ. Visitation from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, ceremony at 2:00 pm. Burial at North Shore Garden of Memories, GreenBay Road, North Chicago, IL. Please visit www.hansenmortuary.com to leave online condolences.