Joyce Elaine Sarkady - Obituary

Joyce Elaine (Bertrand) Sarkady April 4, 1936-September 5, 2025 Our world dimmed on September 5, 2025 with the passing of our loving and devoted mother after a sudden and short illness. Joyce was born to Marie (Kimball) Bertrand and Alphonse Bertrand in Woodsville, NH, where she spent her childhood and graduated from Woodsville High School. She was an outstanding basketball player and helped take her team to a state championship victory her senior year. After graduating from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science she worked as a medical technologist for over forty years in multiple hospitals and physician’s offices. Most recently she worked in, and ultimately retired from, the laboratory at Annapolis Oncology Center in Annapolis where she devoted herself to helping cancer patients, bringing smiles and laughter to their days, and becoming lifelong friends with many of her colleagues. Joyce loved crossword puzzles, bike riding and playing tennis and golf. She played golf through her mid-eighties and was a long-time member of the women’s league at Eisenhower Golf Course. Joyce loved her friends and spending time with them; going to lunch, golfing and playing endless games of Rummikub. Joyce’s ultimate joy and love was her family. She was extremely close with her brother who still resides in the same neighborhood, and with whom she spent many evenings and dinners together through the years. She deeply loved her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; most happy to be included in all birthday and holiday celebrations. She will always be remembered for her easy laugh, true humility and quiet strength; she is sorely missed. Joyce is survived by her children, Lynne and Ken, her brother, Gordon, and her four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She will be laid to rest in Horse Meadow Cemetery in Haverhill, NH.