Joyce Heatherley

Loved her dearly, Balcony People helped guide me through raising a teenager. She was all joy! Just learning of her passing, and sending hugs to Francis.

I saw her video on her ‘Irregular People” book at my church many years ago, and began crying about halfway through it. The tears didn’t really stop until I had read the book, spent many hours with a wonderful clinical psychologist, and finally put my experiences in writing. I can’t say that was the end of my healing — are we ever really healed before we go to Heaven? — but my life was certainly redirected. I did not have just one irregular person in my life, but three. That’s when I...

I always admired you. I felt so honored to see you one time. God bless you, Joyce.

Mr. Heatherley, I want to thank you for taking my call many years ago and relaying a message to your wife which resulted in her sending me some CD's and a signed book. It was a special blessing and I was happy to write about it in my blog. You were very kind, and my prayers and condolences are with you today (two years later) as I am sure you are still missing her greatly. Your little sister in the Lord, Donna Fentanes

Joyce was my high school Sunday School teacher when I was 16, in 1965. She and I became friends, and I was often at her house in Pomona, CA; doing yard work, playing board games, laughing. A friend and I took Dick and Joyce to a Barbra Streisand concert at Hollywood Bowl; and I occasionally accompanied her to her speaking-singing dates in S. Cal. She was so important to me! My mom died when I was 14, and Joyce promised her to watch out for me. She took that promise seriously! She even wrote...

I just learned of the great loss of your beloved Joyce. As I remember the impact she made on me as a young mommy and Pastor's wife, I want to extend my admiration for her life to you. Because of her book, "The Fragrance of Beauty", a whole ministry for women was developed! I am still in active ministry with a ministry called, SHINE. We are located in Lone Tree, CO. I never had the privilege to meet Joyce, but she deeply inspired me. I read most all of her books which shaped so much of my...

Dear Landoef & Heatherly families: Now nearly 43 years ago my wife and sister and I attended a Family Life Seminar where Joyce was the featured speaker. After the first day, I was hooked....learned about The Richest Lady in Town, Irregular People, the tragedy of David´s birth and death, and then the moving and heart rending story of Mrs. Miller´s journey with cancer and her death. What really touched me was Joyce was unlike any other Christian speaker or pastor I have ever heard, in that she...

I´m so sorry to just find out about this tremendous loss. Joyce spoke to our broken-hearted church, Christ Community Church in Tucson, AZ in 1981. We had just lost a young mother of 2 babies to cancer and an 18 year old boy to a car accident at the end of 1980. Her Mourning Song message was just what our hearts needed. I was guiding my niece, who lost her mother last year to Joyce´s Mourning Song book when I noticed we lost Joyce in 2021. She was an exceptional woman of God. I think of her...