Joyce FOSTER Obituary

To Joyce's family, friends and colleagues my loving condolences. Joyce will be sadly missed by her family and by all those who shared her interests and enjoyed her friendship. Joyce was a lady who put her whole heart into every endeavour. She must have been a wonderful teacher. Certainly, she was respected and appreciated by her colleagues. My husband and I first met Michael and Joyce in 1999 on a cold, wet day in Wellington not long after their younger son proposed to our daughter. We were touched by the warmth of their hospitality. Over the years we discovered just how kind and generous and talented they were. And with that, people of sincere faith.

My greatest joy in recent years was to discover what an amazing correspondent Joyce was. Her observations were always interesting and often made me chuckle.


To Joyce's family, friends and colleagues my loving condolences. Joyce will be sadly missed by her family and by all those who shared her interests and enjoyed her friendship. Joyce was a lady who put her whole heart into every endeavour.She must have been a wonderful teacher. Certainly, she was respected and appreciated by her colleagues. My husband and I first met Michael and Joyce in 1999 on a cold, wet day in Wellington not long after their younger son proposed to our daughter. We were touched by the warmth of their hospitality. Over the years we discovered just how kind and generous and talented they were. And with that, people of sincere faith.

My greatest joy in recent years was to discover what an amazing correspondent Joyce was. Her observations were always interesting and and often witty.

Dear Andy - I was so sorry to learn of Joyce's passing and regret not being well enough to attend her funeral at St Mary's last Monday. {Currently recovering from yet another lower spinal stress fracture!) I will always value Joyce and Michael's membership of the Khandallah With Love Writing Group and still recall how she bravely attended the launch of our last book (for which you wrote the foreword) just a few days after Michael's funeral. It was a lovely surprise to find her living round the corner from me when I came to Bupa last year. And what a lovely celebration your family put on for her 90th birthday! May your memories of Joyce be happy ones... Blessings, Elaine Bolitho (Apt 211 Bupa)

Aue! Kua hinga te totara i te wao-nui-a-Tane!!/Alas! A mighty totara has fallen in the forest of Tane!! When St Mary`s first became an Eco-Church, Joyce and I became Eco Warriors. We attended the first eco-friendly seminar about conservation in church policy and practices.. She was a mighty Wahine Toa/Warrior Woman, e.g., for the church`s Meeting Area recycling bins for paper, tins/cans. glass and landfill. Joyce and I often chatted when on church duty and fair stalls. Also, we were keen members of Zealandia and the Karori Historical Society. Joyce was a prodigious walker and full of endless energy until affected by age and increasing deafness. I`ll miss her bright red coat, Big smile and Great interest in Everything. RIP e hoa, na/my friend, from, Rosemary Cole