Joyce Sandelin Obituary - Death Notice and Service Information

BORN

September 3, 1930

DIED

November 18, 2016

LOCATION

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Sandelin, Joyce E. 9/3/1930 - 11/18/2016 Kalamazoo Joyce Ellen Sandelin (Ayres), 86, passed away on Friday, November 18, 2016, at Friendship Village in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Family was Joyce's primary love. A most wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, caring for her family...

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Long ago before, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made adopting Ethiopians trendy, Carl and Joyce Sandelin were quietly blazing this frontier in the mid-70s. Here I was only seven years being dropped off by my mother in the caring arms of Auntie Joyce. It was 1975, civil unrest and an impending revolution caused my parents to send me to Kalamazoo, Michigan to live with my father's business partner Karl Sandelin and wife. Here she was a new empty nester, starting all over again with a second...

Yonas Kebede

December 05, 2016 | South Orange, NJ

Joyce was a dedicated woman of great faith to her family and friends. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. I have known her for some time and will surely miss her. She is now in the arms of Jesus. God's Blessings to her family at this time.

Carol and Jerry Malmud

November 28, 2016 | Battle Creek, MI

What a wonderful life. May light perpetual shine upon her!

Natalie Neckermann

November 27, 2016 | Kalamazoo, MI

Karl, So sorry to hear of Joyce's parting. She was a great gal and we had some wonderful years together. Having lost Sally, I have some idea what you're going through and you have my deepest condolences.

howard cripps

November 27, 2016 | Peoria, AZ

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