A memorial for lifelong Greenwich resident Joyce Grossberndt Ferris will take place at First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich Saturday, December 31, at 11 a.m. Joyce celebrated her 90th birthday October 11 with family and friends. She died December 20 in the Old Greenwich house she and her late husband, Charles Gilbert Ferris Jr., built in 1951.
Along with her husband, Joyce was a proud GHS Class of 1944 graduate. She earned her R.N. from the Greenwich Hospital School of Nursing and had a long career in school, public, and private nursing, all while raising three daughters who survive her: Caryn, of Farmington CT, Susan, of Cos Cob, and Lynn Ferris Pollack of Avon, CT. Joyce was a lifelong member of the First Congregational Church. That association enriched her life greatly right until the end. She served with the Women’s Fellowship, and was an originator of its Rummage Room; she was also among the originators of Greenwich’s Meals on Wheels, the local Planned Parenthood, the Red Cross Blood program, the Greenwich Junior Woman’s Club, and the Greenwich Hospital Nurses Alumni.
Joyce and Charles cruised out of the Old Greenwich and Greenwich Boat and Yacht Clubs for thirty years on the “Rejoyce” as part of an avid fleet of local sailors she will be rafting up with again.
Joyce also leaves her sister Martha King, of Darien, son-in-law Laurence Pollack, granddaughters Lauren and Lindsey Pollack, all of Avon, and several nieces and nephews. Her parents were William and Martha Grossberndt; her brother Arnold Grossberndt also predeceased her. She will be interred next to her husband in the Ferris Family plot at First Congregational Church. Charitable contributions in her memory can be made to Greenwich Lions Foundation for the support of Low Vision services. She is depicted heading off to her 72nd GHS reunion in September. No flowers, please.
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