August 6, 2024
In loving memory ~
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Joyce Mary Young on August 6th, 2024 in Vernon Hospice, where she received amazing, compassionate and qualified, care. Joyce battled courageously against a rare appendix cancer for over two years. She will be deeply missed and always remembered by her mother, Marion Roberts Young, her sister, Sandy, and her brothers Greg and Dave, and her niece, Michelle.
Joyce was born in Montreal in 1954 and later moved to Calgary in the 1980's where she worked many years as a first responder for the Calgary fire department. She then retrained as a commercial pilot, flying in the north doing medical evacuations and later flying for the charter airlines, Royal and Canada 3000. In 2001, Joyce retired to Vernon and pursued her interests in art, birding, genealogy and gardening.