Joyce Marcia Rowland

AUGUSTA – Joyce Marcia Rowland, 83, left this world to join her savior on March 23, 2025. She was born to Rodney Dunn and his wife Amelia (Pekurney) on Sept. 25, 1941, in Corinth, New York. She graduated valedictorian of her class of 1959 from Corinth Central High School, during which she played first clarinet in the state band. Joyce married her high school sweetheart, Gary John Rowland, on Aug. 22, 1959. She was first and foremost the mother of her four loving children, but she also worked for 25 years at Jay (Maine) Elementary School as a teacher’s aide, where she was instrumental in the early adoption of computer technology. Her hobbies included sewing, oil painting, baking (including wedding cakes), gardening, and quilting, making quilts for all of her children and grandchildren. She lived to help her children and was an intensely devoted and involved grandmother. She especially enjoyed summers at the family camp on Schoodic Lake. Joyce was predeceased by her parents, her brother Ron, her beloved husband of 64 years, Gary, and her son Stephen. She is survived by her sister Suzanne Chandler, her children Michael (Cheryl) Rowland, Marcia (Suzanne) Rowland, and David (Cindy) Rowland, her grandchildren Amelia, Cole, Jennifer, Clay, Caleb, Eliza and Sloane, and her great-granddaughter Auri, as well as a number of cousins, nieces and nephews. The family wishes to express the utmost gratitude to the staff at MaineGeneral Rehabilitation & Long Term Care Glenridge for the outstanding care Joyce received there. Messages of condolences may be sent to: http://www.finleyfuneralhome.com

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 30, at FINLEY FUNERAL HOME, 15 Church Street, Livermore Falls. Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m., prior to the funeral service. Family and friends are invited to join the family immediately following the service for a luncheon at the V.F.W. Post 3335, 64 Jewell Street, Jay, Maine. Interment at Moose Hill Cemetery, 31 Record Road, Livermore Falls, at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to MaineGeneral Health to benefit Hospice Care. Gifts may be sent to: MaineGeneral Health, Office of Philanthropy (Hospice), PO Box 828 Waterville, Maine 04903-0828