Cameron Joyce Obituary
From an early age Cameron discovered the joy of travel, developed an admiration of performance cars, became fascinated with computers, and established a fierce love for his family. These are many of the same attributes that seemed to define who Cameron was throughout his life.
Years later Cameron's fascination with computers grew into a passion, and that passion would drive him to become an expert in his field. Along the way Cameron went back to school, spoke at national technology conferences, and followed opportunities that led him from Massachusetts to New York and eventually to Texas.
In Texas Cameron grew into a magnificent young man who deeply cared for everyone who was welcomed into his life. When meeting new people Cameron's reputation often preceded him in the best of ways. With established friends it was impossible to escape from his love and care.
He was often found sharing good drinks, great stories, and spent rounds with his closest friends. Cameron was admired for his incredible knowledge and capability, but he will be remembered for how he shared his life with others.
A celebration of Cameron's life will be held on July 10, 2024, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, at Lockwood Distilling Company in Richardson, Texas.
You can honor Cameron by making a donation to these charities, and by taking time to deeply care for those you love.
- Hold My Guns (voluntary firearms storage) - holdmyguns.org
- NOAH (National Organization for Albinism & Hypopigmentation) - albinism.org
- Your favorite local mental health organization
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Tony Ortiz
March 10, 2025
Cameron - I think about you a lot lately bud. Wish I'd known what you were going through. We didn't talk often after working together but we'd periodically talk about hobbies and other things. Miss you lots.
A neighbor
July 13, 2024
I´m so sorry to hear this! I´m a neighborhood who would see him out walking his dog. Sending prayers up for him and his loved ones left behind.
Kenna M. Lindsay
July 11, 2024
Kenna M. Lindsay
July 11, 2024
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Kenna M. Lindsay
July 11, 2024
Kenna M. Lindsay
July 11, 2024
This is a copy of the text I read at the Celebration of Life about my once partner and always friend Cameron.
"Howdy y´all I am Kenna, being here, I get the feeling you know a lot more about me than I do about you.
I was asked to share something about Cameron tonight and I´m really honored about that. I´m extremely grateful for the efforts of the family members to organize this event and invite us all to be together. What is most important to me tonight is to show them the love that I would have shared with their son, and for them to know how loved and treasured he was to me and to all of us.
I met Cameron at a 276 Riverknoll apartment party on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in 2008 when we were both young raver kids. The group of us were interested in trance, hardcore and UK hardstyle electronic music. That music loving community learned a lot traveling together to Toronto and New York City to party. Some of them attended events like Candyball 10 where DJ Hixxy headlined. We all connected through local events at the queer and drag club TILT. If you are a Rupaul Drag Race fan this was Pandora Boxx´s home club and we got to see her perform there before being on RuPaul. In those days Cameron was dating a wonderful creative woman named Emma who works as a tattoo artist today in upstate New York.
Years later we re-met at Vertex Nightclub the long standing Goth Bar in Rochester, New York on Valentines night. My partner and I had recently broken up and so had his. We commiserated over the bar, retro´d what had and had not worked in our previous relationships and decided to give it a go, if nothing else we were both heartbroken and this could be fun.
This week back in Texas my mom shared a memory with me about how kind and helpful he was when we packed to move me out of NY, and how he shared his travel experience to transport two very grumpy siamese cats Joey and Yoshi from NY to Texas safely.
He moved to Texas a few months after I did in 2013 and we lived in my parents house together to save up for an apartment. A period that held many sweet moments like an all American 4th of July with strawberry basil cocktails and mint juleps, the summer boating outing with RIT alumni where a photographer, Gail Nogle fell in love with our style as a couple. But also life lessons like, if my mom tells you she hates the smell of fish that probably includes burning a swordfish steak in her kitchen.
He taught me basically everything I know about fashion and I helped him learn about sunscreen, and other subtle skin protecting cosmetics so he could be more comfortable in the bright Texan sun.
Sometimes we would go to The Church at The Lizard Lounge together or Panoptikon to dance. Cameron loved to dance and was so fun to go out dancing with. He shared many fond memories with me of attending music festivals but especially HTID or Harcore till I Die weekend (you´re still hardcore, Cameron.) A weekend of camping and hardstyle rave music.
One of my favorite memories of Cameron includes attending PRIDE in Dallas. When we lived at that apartment in Richardson we had a rainbow pride flag and a trans flag on our living room wall in Texas in 2015. Cameron was a member of the LGBT community and I am Non-binary. One of the things I cherish most deeply about our friendship was being able to connect about our feelings in relationship to sexuality and gender, as they related to intimacy. I could tell Cameron anything, even when we hadn´t talked for years.
Cameron was a very special person in basically every way imaginable. His look was striking, he knew how to dress himself, his education was on his own terms. He did very well for himself after accomplishing a GED, getting an associates at a Colin College in Plano Texas and taking many certifications in the time that I knew him.
I´ll never forget how excited he was to travel to Alabama and dress up for his sister Shannon´s wedding. Everyone looked beautiful and it was a really joyous moment. What to wear was a topic in our home for months beforehand.
Cameron and I grew and learned a lot of hard life lessons about managing a home together and the importance of communication. Especially if you are living life by your own rules and establishing your own idea of success, which is a value we shared. In this way Cameron made me feel so seen and understood.
Another very special thing about him was Cameron was the KING of gift love. Perhaps you have heard of The Five Love Languages book and model for discussing needs and wants in a relationship?
Cameron was so amazing at listening to or observing what it was that you needed in your life and would find you the most perfect gift. You could mention in passing that you missed something from your childhood or from somewhere you used to live and magically he would have found one and gotten it for you (shout out to the Amex concierge.)
Early on in our relationship He surprised me with so many impossible to find limited edition tubes of lipstick (MAC heroine.) He loved to spoil people with things because he loved quality things and he loved to travel. He loved souvenirs and really good pens. He and I shared that love of beautiful writing instruments. He got so much satisfaction out of having found the perfect gift for you.
In the weeks since the sad news other friends have reached out to me and shared their memories of him, many have been about how he found them the perfect thing for them. For me a tube of lipstick, for another person a vintage gold lighter, for a third person the fanciest wine opener she has ever seen that she still gets compliments on today.
The last favorite memory I will share today was after Cameron and I already felt `too old to party´ in our mid twenties (wait for laugh) we had bought tickets to see Above and Beyond at the South Side Ballroom in Dallas, 2015 for the We Are All We Need tour. It was a really healing experience for both of us to get to dance like we were younger again and blow off the stress of some of our first really professional jobs. I have a picture of one of the visuals from that show and it says "Don´t Forget The Ones Who Love You Back" since the news I have basically been listening to this album non-stop. It was so fun to get dressed together for this show like we hadn´t in quite a while after working and both being in community college, working and, a million other 20 something stresses. We put our Tripp NYC pants, furry stuffed animal backpacks and kandi bracelets on that night, mine including the one I had been gifted by another raver girl from Rochester in a smoking circle on the patio. All sharing one bummed cigarette. Cameron was also standing outside smoking with us, that kandi bracelet had a tigger from winnie-the-pooh on it. She gave it to me and said she loved my bouncy tigger like dancing.
Many years later when Cameron and I dated he told me he had remembered that moment and had also liked dancing with me and started calling me Tigger. To me Cameron was Boo, the adorable, sensitive, shy ghost from super mario world, which he will always be. My king of ghosts.
Most recently in life, Cameron and I reconnected around his birthday this year. He was going to be in San Francisco where I live for a cyber security conference anyway and it had been a lot of years since he had gotten married, which had facilitated a period of silence between us.
We had a blast getting sushi and that turned into drinks at a nearby absinthe bar patio that turned into trying to sober up enough to not have a terrible hangover the next day at my art studio. We laughed and cried, roasted each other and had a ball. That week it seemed like things in his life were on top of the moon.
We kept talking almost daily after that and I was so grateful to have my friend back because honestly, being an adult is really hard so it's very important to `remember the ones who love you back´ and hang on to them really tight. Even if, and maybe especially if, other people don´t understand what success means to you.
On that visit as a birthday gift I gave him a piece of artwork from a series I have been making and some zines I work on. He told me he hung the work in his house above his coffee maker and that it made him so happy every day to see it and know that we were friends again. I felt the same, so glad to be friends again. I was so happy to finally give the king of gifts something back that he liked, even though I am a broke artist game developer these days so all I have to give is love and time.
In the time between then and now we had made so many plans to do so many things and catch up when I had planned to be in texas so soon. When I got the news, I was in London working on a game project and reconnecting with friends, checking out Cameron´s favorite London coffee shops he had given me a list of. Each spot a favorite, found on a visit to his Mother when she lived there or his dear friend Melanie, who was the best man at his wedding. I will think of him at every EDM event and every goth club and every designer store and cocktail bar and on every airplane for the rest of my life.
Now, if you could please take a moment and find someone here who you will remember loves you back, hug them, or look them in the eye, know who each other are, stay in touch, don´t forget them.
Cheers, to Cameron Joyce."
Kaleigh Cambere
July 10, 2024
Cameron was a truly a special human who I am thankful I got to call friend even for a short while. He was intelligent, generous, and kind. He was honest and witty. I always enjoyed his company, and found who he was as a person to always be admirable and invoking curiosity.
A memory I look back on with gratitude is the day we ran 5k race together. He was a much better runner than me and well practiced, but he was always patient and encouraging to me and even bought me a new pair of running shoes to get me excited for the race. We had a lot of fun that day! And I´ll always remember it and how we enjoyed that day together as friends.
I wish I could tell him one last time how good of a friend he was and how I´ll always care for him. Rest in peace, Cameron Joyce. We love you!
Jim Johnson
July 1, 2024
Cameron Joyce was arguably the most interesting man at Arctic Wolf. His thirst for knowledge was deep, his love for life was unbridled and his impact on his team was felt by all. He was a true technologist in rarest of form. He knew everything from contract negotiations, to how to configure an access point. Anyone who encountered Cameron knew they were in for a good time. From his orange Chanel belt to his baby blue Gucci suede shoes, there is no one that could match his fit. He is gone now but will never be forgotten. His impact on everyone he came in contact with will forever be felt.
We love you, Cameron. You will live forever in our heart
Jim Johnson
July 1, 2024
My favorite memory with Cameron is, well, all of them. I don't think there was ever a time I was with Cameron that wasn't truly enjoyable. He was an amazing coworker, a true technologist and frankly a great friend. We miss you, Cam!
Rita Jackson
June 29, 2024
My most favorite memory of Cameron was at the teen hospitality suite at the NOAH conference in Minneapolis. He claims it wasn´t him, but Tracie Vidrine and I were there. I will hold the memory of him dancing in my heart.
Carole Mitchell
June 29, 2024
Cameron came to spend some time with Jeannine at my Minnesota AirBnB one summer. What a sharp, charming young man! It was a pleasure to meet him.
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