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Joyce Willamine Hood Duran

Durango, Colorado

May 6, 1940 – May 17, 2023 (Age 83)

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BORN
May 6, 1940
DIED
May 17, 2023
AGE
83
LOCATION
Durango, Colorado

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Joyce Willamine Hood Duran was born May 6, 1940 to George and Edna Hood. She left this life on May, 17, 2023. A tribal elder of the Southern Ute Tribe. In 1959, she married her high school sweetheart Rudy Duran. She was a teacher for 39 years, grades K-5th. Joyce received her Bachelors and...

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So sorry. Joyce was a wonderful friend. My condolences to her family and friends.

I remember Joyce D. when I was very young boy in the boarding school. she would tutor the girls and boys on the weekends at the old Ute Head Start building class room. A few years later she would tutor the board school boys and girls under the old boarding school kitchen area. She was very nice until she seen you was missing around and not doing your schoolwork, then you know that you was in serious trouble... she would say if you don´t do your schoolwork that you wouldn´t be successful in...

My sweet auntie was one of a kind she was always sharing her knowledge with us when we would go visit her and how she loved her bananna bread that i would bring her.truly a loving soul that is greatly missed already . will see you in paradise sweet Joyce

So sorry to hear. My thoughts and prayers are out to your family.