Descendants of Joyce Ellen Adams Donlon are raising funds to place a memorial stone at her grave, located in National Memorial Park in Falls Church, Virginia.
Timeline:
*Donations taken until December 31, 2019
*Design finalized in January 2020
*Stone placed by July 29, 2020
Joyce Ellen Adams Donlon was born July 29, 1925, in Bedford, England. When Britain went to war against Germany in 1939, Joyce was a fourteen-year-old girl living with her widowed mother and sixteen-year-old sister Eileen. On April 10, 1944, Joyce married American serviceman Thomas “Tommie” Donlon Jr., who was stationed at an airbase in Bedford with the US Army Air Corps. Later that year, Tommie returned to the United States, and Joyce followed shortly after aboard the Queen Mary. Joyce settled with Tommie in Boston, Massachusetts, and began a family that eventually grew to seven children. In 1955, Joyce became a naturalized citizen of the United States. While still raising her youngest children, Joyce was taken prematurely by cancer on August 16, 1974. She lives on in memories, stories, portraits, and in the faith and hope she shared with many. She is survived by seven children, twenty-two grandchildren, and thirty-four great grandchildren.
Timeline:
*Donations taken until December 31, 2019
*Design finalized in January 2020
*Stone placed by July 29, 2020
Joyce Ellen Adams Donlon was born July 29, 1925, in Bedford, England. When Britain went to war against Germany in 1939, Joyce was a fourteen-year-old girl living with her widowed mother and sixteen-year-old sister Eileen. On April 10, 1944, Joyce married American serviceman Thomas “Tommie” Donlon Jr., who was stationed at an airbase in Bedford with the US Army Air Corps. Later that year, Tommie returned to the United States, and Joyce followed shortly after aboard the Queen Mary. Joyce settled with Tommie in Boston, Massachusetts, and began a family that eventually grew to seven children. In 1955, Joyce became a naturalized citizen of the United States. While still raising her youngest children, Joyce was taken prematurely by cancer on August 16, 1974. She lives on in memories, stories, portraits, and in the faith and hope she shared with many. She is survived by seven children, twenty-two grandchildren, and thirty-four great grandchildren.