Funeral Details

Joyce Robbins

March 3, 1925 - November 28, 2015

SERVICE INFORMATION

Date and Time

Friday, December 4, 2015 at 1:30 PM

Graveside

Westlawn Cemetery
7801 West Montrose Avenue
Norridge, Illinois 60706
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Clergy

Rabbi Karyn Kedar
Congregation B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim

Gathering

Private

Memorial Contributions

Charity of your choice




OBITUARY

Joyce Robbins, nee Feldstein, age 90

Beloved wife of the late Willard. Loving sister of Lois (Arthur) Mills and Marcia Danits. Dear aunt of Susan (Scott) Bauer, Gary (Debbie) Mills, Seth Randal, John (Cathy) Danits, the late Naomi Gendel, Feivel (Carol) Rosen, Steve (Dorothy) Rosen, Ned (Susan) Block, Alan (Ruth) Block and Martin (Sara) Block. Proud great aunt of Sarah, Samantha, Sydney, Hannah, Marc, Julie, Scott (Kelly), Joshua (Mischal), Jennifer (Jeremy), Noah (Marmina), Gabriel (Tamar), Jonah, Max, Emma, Eliza, Eli (Maya), Mischa, Noah, and Jesse. Wonderful volunteer who devoted her time to recording for the blind and, most recently, a docent for the Illinois Holocaust Museum. Graveside service Friday 1:30 PM at Westlawn Cemetery, 7801 W Montrose Ave., Norridge. Carnation section. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the charity of your choice. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals-Buffalo Grove Chapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com


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You gave so much and I can only hope that you felt the love back. Miss you forever!

Susan Bauer
December 3, 2015
I heard about Joyce's passing just this morning. Of course I'm saddened, but Joyce lived a long life, accomplished a great deal, and died (I understand) peacefully. Joyce was such an amazing person, I hardly know where to begin. One thing that stands out is that she was such a "straight shooter", and simultaneously so obviously full of warmth and good will, that it was easy to hear it when she pointed out how wrong something I was saying or doing was. Joyce and, as long as he was alive, Bill were among my parents very best friends for many years. I can remember so many evenings of them playing contract bridge at our house when I was little. (When it was our bedtime, Billy would often come up with a clever way to get my brother and me to go to bed without a fight 🙂 .) But they didn't share only bridge; they went to tons of concerts, ballets, and plays together, read and discussed books, etc.

I recently ran across a scrapbook their friends gave my parents for their 40th anniversary, in 1980. There's so much of Joyce in it -- hardly any photos, unfortunately, but other things, for example a note ending with these words: "My dears -- from me to you -- just love. Letting love go and having it come back tenfold. It has always been thus. We are lucky. Always..." Who but Joyce could have written that?

Joyce had strong feelings about many things, especially serving people; hence her years and years of recording for the blind, and her work as a docent at the Holocaust Museum. She was a very good listener. She was a wonderful and unique friend first to my parents and later to me. And she meant a lot to my wife Susan; she says Joyce's strength of character was inspiring to her.

I see that what I've written has a fair amount about Billy as well as Joyce. Though he's been gone for many years, I still can hardly think of one without the other. Both of them will live in my memory as long as I have a memory.


Don Byrd
December 15, 2015