Joyce Arlene Fox

Joyce A. Fox, age 89 of Tracy, MN, formerly of Richfield, MN, died Friday, July 27, 2012 at the Prairie View Healthcare Center in Tracy. Services will be 11:30 AM Thursday, August 2, 2012 at the St. James Episcopal Church on the Parkway in Minneapolis, MN. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday. A luncheon will be served immediately following the service in the church social hall. Interment will be in the Ft. Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis at 2:30 PM following the luncheon. The Almlie Funeral Home of Tracy is handling the arrangements. Joyce Arlene Fox was born May 16, 1923 to Paul W. and Alice R. (Anderson) Quist in Minneapolis, MN, Hennepin County. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith and attended Minneapolis South High School, graduating in 1941. On April 17, 1945 Joyce married Charles E. Fox at the Ft. Snelling Chapel in Minneapolis. They made their home for fifty one years on Bloomington Avenue in Richfield, MN. Joyce worked as a Special Learning Aide in the Richfield school system for fifteen years. She was a member of the St. James Episcopal Church on the Parkway in Minneapolis, where she was active serving communion to homebound members. She was also the first woman to serve on the church Vestry. Joyce also served on the Board of Opportunity Workshop in the 1950’s. She enjoyed tutoring at Opportunity Partners and traveling, having toured Sweden with her four cousins in 1986. In 2002 Joyce and her husband moved to Tracy, MN to be closer to their son. Joyce became a resident of the Tracy Nursing Home and later moved into Prairie View Healthcare Center, where she died Friday, July 27, 2012 at the age of 89. Joyce is survived by her husband, Charles Fox of Tracy, MN; two sons, James (Lauri) Fox of Tracy, MN and Charles W. Fox of Richfield, MN; three grandchildren, Kathleen (Daniel) Joyce of Everett, WA, Elisabeth (Andrew) Johnson of Mankato, MN and Sean Fox of Tracy, MN; one brother, Robert Quist of Jordan, MN; one niece, Kristen (Glenn) Nemanic of Jordan, MN; one nephew, David Quist of Jordan, MN; and friends. Her parents, Paul and Alice Quist preceded her in death.