[RP TownTalk] Sad News

[Sue Collins]

Thank you SO much for letting us know; I hadn't seen her outside in the yard for quite a while.  She gave me gladiolus bulbs and plant cuttings; her yard was always a showplace!  



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From: "OurDollMom at aol.com" <OurDollMom at aol.com>
To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 8:49:33 AM
Subject: [RP TownTalk] Sad News

Joyce Alderson Voigt passed away yesterday November 3rd
after a long battle with cancer.  She was the lady who
lived in the big house across from the elementary school
with the pretty Gazebo and flowers and the little green
grandparents house. She moved here in the 1970s.  Besides
loving her family & friends, she loved flowers, Victorian era,
dolls, animals, fed her birds every day all kinds of table scraps
& the birds ate it all.  She could always be seen pulling the
weeds from her hedges, caring for her roses & other flowers.
In the old days, her husband Dick (deceased) and she would
have a big crab feast for family & friends once a year. A group
of us doll collectors learned to carve our first wooden doll 
in her garage - the Hitty doll.  The wood-carving teacher 
came all the way from Virginia to teach the classes.  In the
old days, she and I would head off for Brimfield, Mass. to
the flea market fields (about 5 miles worth) for a few days,
rising at 3:30 am with flash lights in hand, scouring the 
groves for doll & miniature bargains.  The big thrill was to
find a "sleeper" - a treasure nobody there knew anything
about.  Sometimes it rained so hard, our boots sucked
in the mud, but we were determined.  One time I got 
stitches in my foot with soft cast during the gas crises,
but we trudged on in the Greyhound bus.  We came
home with treasures - she tied mine on my head - a 
victorian child's rocker (like a big hat) and my other
treasurers she tied to my crutches. Those were the
good ole days. She will be missed.    Her viewing is 
this Sunday at Gasches.

Emily Fanning



      
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