My name is Joyce Carnall. My husband of almost 50 years recently passed away due to cancer. I need not say what a life changing event this has been. I have two grown children, a son and a daughter. Our daughter is the mother of our 3 grandchildren, and one of my granddaughter’s is the mother of my almost 3 year old great granddaughter.

I worked at a local supermarket upon graduating from high school. Because of that job, I now draw a small pension from the United Food and Commercial Union retirement plan. I left that job after 18 years to attend Neumann University in Aston, Pa., where I earned a BA Degree in Liberal Arts and completed a Masters’ Degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude, in Pastoral Counselling. With that degree, I took a job as Bereavement Coordinator for Taylor Hospice in Ridley Park; doing post graduate studies in grief issues. I became a Nationally Board Certified Grief Therapist and Educator of Death, Dying and Bereavement.