Joyce Williams, a graduate of Trinity University, has worn many hats. She worked as a caseworker for military families with the American Red Cross; trained as a Montessori teacher at Oklahoma City University and retired from Saint Mary’s Hall, a private school in San Antonio, Texas, as Head of the Montessori School in 1993.
After training in Clinical Pastoral Education, she served as a volunteer pediatric chaplain at San Antonio’s Methodist Children’s Hospital for six years. For ten years she wrote children’s curriculum for the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board and served on the faculty at the Glorieta Conference Center. Almost since the Center opened in1997 she has been a volunteer program coordinator for the Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas.
Besides her memoir, Triumph Over Grief, Joyce has written Adjustable Julie, Pedro’s Piñata, Sam is Mad, Sue is New, Gus is Grouchy, Fred Wants Friends, and I Remember Mama. She edited her daughter Lydia’s book I Miss My Little Brother which was recently translated into Spanish.
Other articles and stories: Sarah’s Memory Box – published in Aries 2000, Texas Wesleyan University’s journal of creative expression. Three articles in The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling: The Fog Lifts, A Perfect Healing, and Cadence of My Heart. Boys’ Quest Magazine published her story, Old Rattler and the King Snake, which is now being used in the reading section of testing materials.
Joyce’s most recent book, Robbie Remembers, was released in November 2004 and is illustrated by Betty Radwin of Boerne, Texas. She has been a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for many years.