Joyce Felsen Edinberg - Obituary

Joyce Edinberg, lately of Annapolis, died peacefully on September 26, 2026, at the Baywoods retirement home. Joyce was born on June 26, 1928 in Los Angeles, California, where she grew up and later graduated from UCLA with a degree in political science. In 1951 she took on an internship at the U.S. Department of State, and it was in Washington, D.C. that she met her future husband Norman, who was an economist at the Department of Commerce. They married in 1952. The following year Joyce left her job in Washington to pursue a Master’s degree at Columbia Teachers College in New York. The newly married couple moved to Barranquilla, Colombia, where Norman had been sent to set up a factory for an American company. They then relocated to Caracas, Venezuela, where Norman started his own business and where they would live for the next thirty years. For many years Joyce taught history at the American school in Caracas. She eventually gave up teaching to become the president of the Venezuelan-American Association of University Women, and she also began to write a regular column about the arts and culture for the English-language newspaper in Caracas. Joyce and her husband moved in 1983 to New York City, where Norman took up work as a consultant to the United Nations and Joyce pursued her journalistic career, elucidating the arts and the “American way of life” as a columnist for the city’s Japanese newspaper. Ten years later the couple settled in Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where Joyce covered the local art scene as a regular contributor to the Provincetown Banner. She also served on the Education Committee of the Cape Cod Symphony and became involved with a project for a new building for the Truro Public Library, where Joyce continued to volunteer her services. When Norman died in 2017, Joyce moved to Annapolis, where she spent her last years close to two of her children, David and Sara, who survive her. Another son, Jim, lives in Vienna, Austria. She also leaves three grandchildren, Sara, Emily and Robert. Joyce’s immediate family will have a memorial gathering in her honor at a later date. Online condolences may be made using the Memories tab on this page.