Joyce Lyma Willard

  Research Notes:

Birth certificate appears to show middle name as "Louisa", but Jean Willard has a typed document that shows her middle name as "Lyma", which would appear to be a feminine version of her father Lyman's name.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence, 2 Apr 1930, Oxbow, Aroostook, Maine, United States.

• Residence, 11 Jun 1940, Oxbow, Aroostook, Maine, United States.

• Residence, 1 Apr 1950, Oxbow, Aroostook, Maine, United States.

• Obituary: Duncan-Graves.com, Aug 2021, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
OXBOW NORTH: Joyce Lyma Willard Michalka passed away August 17, 2021, in Oxbow, Maine, in her son's and his wife's home on the farm where she was born 101 years ago March 10, 1920. She was the daughter of Lyman and Maud (Junkins) Willard.
Joyce grew up in Oxbow and lived there all of her life except for the 6 years she lived in Mapleton with her son Andrew and his wife Sue who lovingly cared for her since 2013. In 2019, she returned to her family farm with them when they retired there.
She attended Oxbow Grade School and Masardis High School. In 1936 she married her first husband Harry Greenlaw, Jr. with whom she had two children, Richard and Judith. Following his death, she later married Rudolph Michalka with whom she had four children, Susan, Daniel, Andrew and Timothy.
Joyce loved working in her gardens, canoeing and fishing on and swimming in the Aroostook River, bird hunting, traveling to visit family and seeing new places, playing Scrabble, stargazing, picnicking, and eating ice cream and chocolate. Beginning in 1975, she was employed for 11 years by North Maine Woods as a gatekeeper on the Oxbow gate.
She is survived by her six children: Richard Greenlaw and wife Sue, Judith Estey and husband Wayne, Susan Bushey and husband John, Daniel Michalka and companion Heidi, Andrew Michalka and wife Sue and Timothy Michalka and wife Sue. She is also survived by twelve grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, and two great, great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents, her sister, Christine Willard, a grandson, Adam Michalka and both of her husbands.
A graveside service will be held at the Willard Family Cemetery on River Road in Oxbow, Monday, August 23, at 3 P.M.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Oxbow Community Church and the Oxbow Community Center through the Duncan-Graves Funeral Home in Presque Isle, Maine. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at www.duncan-graves.com

Joyce married Harry Weir Greenlaw Jr. on 8 Aug 1936 in Maine, United States. (Harry Weir Greenlaw Jr. was born on 16 Oct 1914 in Masardis, Aroostook, Maine, United States, died on 14 Apr 1950 in Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, United States and was buried on 16 Apr 1950 in Willard Cemetery, Oxbow, Aroostook, Maine, United States.)

Joyce next married Rudolph Andrew Michalka on 7 May 1951 in Maine, United States. (Rudolph Andrew Michalka was born on 15 Nov 1917 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States and died on 17 Oct 2012 in Oxbow, Aroostook, Maine, United States.)