Marian "Joyce" Wolfe

August 8, 1931 - July 13, 2025 WOLFE, Marian J. ("Joyce'") (née Bond) died on July 13, 2025 of cardiac failure in Torrance, California. Joyce was born on August 8, 1931 in Yuma, Arizona and moved as a baby with her parents, Eugene and Linda Bond, and older brother, Eugene, Jr., to California where her younger sister, Mildred, was soon born. While Joyce was close to her mother until her death in 1986, when Joyce was only four, her father, who she remembered vividly, died in 1935 of tuberculosis ("TB") at the young age of 27 during the heart of the Great Depression and just eight years before the discovery of an antibiotic treatment for TB. Her mother, Linda Bond (née Peden), never remarried.  
After Joyce graduated from John Marshall High School in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, she married her life-long love, Wallace J. Wolfe, on July 14, 1950. They had four children, Michael Stephen (Born 1951), Nancy Lynn (Born 1954), Jeane Ann (born 1955), and Craig Alan born (1959).  
In the mid-1960s, Joyce graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in English and then earned a teaching credential. Joyce soon began a long career as an educator in Southern California, teaching third, fifth and sixth grades in the La Habra City School District. In the 1970s she earned a Master of Science in Educational Administration and also served as a resource teacher, staff developer and program writer before becoming the Principal of Cucamonga Elementary School in 1980 until she retired ten years later. Joyce was well respected by both her colleagues and students, some of whom remained in contact with her for over 50 years.  
Joyce loved her family, teaching children, animals, and nature's beauty, especially flowers. After she retired, she described her life goal as "To live by 'The Golden Rule' each day, to seek happiness by finding something useful to do, to find people to love, and to find something to look forward to." She passed away in her sleep on the evening of July 13, 2025 just hours before what would have been the 75th anniversary of her marriage to Wallace on July 14, 1950. She was age 93.
Joyce is survived by her three remaining children, Michael S. Wolfe (Pat) of Diamond Bar, Nancy Wolfe of Reynolds, Georgia, and Craig Wolfe (Odile) of San Pedro; her six grandchildren, Joanna Sanchez (née Wolfe) (Vince), Patrick Wolfe (Maryan), Ellise August (née Armstrong) (Brian), Nicole Armstrong, Michael A. Wolfe, and Meagan Wolfe; and her great-grandchildren, Cassandra Sanchez, Isabella Sanchez, Mira Wolfe, Ashley August, Ryan August, Dylan August, and Juliette Armstrong. Joyce's daughter, Jeane Armstrong (née Wolfe), recently died of cancer on April 26, 2025 at age 69
A graveside memorial service will be held at Inspiration Slope at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California where Joyce's cremated remains will be buried with those of her husband, Wallace.  
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the Alzheimer's Association (www.alz.org).