Joyce J Andrews

She went to school at Robert E. Lee elementary and Woodrow Wilson High School, graduating in 1943. She attended Texas State College for Woman in Denton (now Texas Woman’s University) and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York.

In 1951 she married Conley J. Andrews and they celebrated their 65th anniversary in 2016.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Conley, and survived by their son Karl, their daughter Karen and husband Mike Sand and their 4 children, Katie, Matthew, Amy and Christopher, Katie’s husband Eric and their 2 daughters Madelyn and Maybrie and son Major, Amy’s husband Chris and their two sons, Jackson and Logan.

In 1974 she went to El Centro College at night and 1975 returned to TWU where she completed her original degree plan over 30 years later and then earned a Masters Degree at SMU in Dallas in 1976. She worked at Sanger Brothers, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, the City of Dallas Tax Office, and retired from the Dallas Central Appraisal District in 1994 where she had been an appraiser of unique residential properties and taught classes for certification as Registered Professional Appraisers of the State of Texas. She was a SRA of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers. She had a Real Estate Brokers License, was a member of the Dallas Board of Realtors, and as an Independent fee appraiser testified as an expert witness in Dallas and Denton County Courts.

At age 8 she began volunteer work with neighborhood children’s plays with the proceeds donated to the Dallas Morning News Milk Fund. During WWII she was a Red Cross nurse’s aid at Baylor Hospital and Hope Cottage. She was a Camp Fire/Blue Bird leader at Bradfield Elementary School and a 7th grade religion teacher at Christ the King Church. She was a friend of Lois Wilson and a volunteer speaker for over 30 years.

She loved to read. She wrote and published a book, and she loved theater and travel. She was an accomplished seamstress making draperies, Austrian shades, outlined quilted bedspreads, tailored suits and special little girl’s dresses. She was baptized at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1927 and married there in 1951 and had been in the St. Rita Catholic Community since 1993.