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A former nurse, she lived in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. https://mulryanfh.com/tribute/details/1363/Joyce-Stengel/obituary.html
First half:
Joyce A. (Slocum) Stengel, 82, of South Glastonbury, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at Hartford Hospital. She was the beloved wife of Robert F. Stengel.
Born in Hartford, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Alice (Marks) Slocum. Joyce was an accomplished Author of ChildrenrCOs Literature. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, mother-in-law and friend. She was a member of St. LukerCOs Episcopal Church, South Glastonbury. Joyce loved spending time with her family and friends. That was what was most important to her, whether traveling, dining out or just playing games at home....
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What I posted in 2018:
http://www.joyceastengel.com/Home.html
http://www.joyceastengel.com/About.html
(short bio)
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1473/Stengel-Joyce-1938.html
Excerpt:
New England-based author Joyce A. Stengel was inspired to write through her love of storytelling and reading, both cultivated during childhood. "Of course, life experience is a great influence," she added on her Web site. "I find situations from my childhood, from my children's childhoods, and peoplerCofriends and relatives, beloved and otherwiserCoappearing in my books." Stengel's books, most of which were originally published in Ireland, include the coming-of-age novels Letting Go and Sarah Takes Charge, as well as Mystery at Kittiwake Bay and The Caribbean Jewels Mystery, the last published in the United States as Mystery of the Island Jewels...
https://www.google.com/search?q=joyce+stengel+books&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi47Lzrzu_ZAhUSUa0KHQx-DmEQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=815
(book covers) https://www.google.com/search?ei=WROrWvW5E8e8tgX1_b6oCQ&q=joyce+stengel+kirkus&oq=joyce+stengel+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.34663.37780.0.37957.7.7.0.0.0.0.132.643.3j3.6.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.4.455...0i22i30k1.0.gnBSZIyofzk
(Kirkus reviews) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/284926.Joyce_A_Stengel?from_search=true (reader reviews) https://www.google.com/search?ei=gBOrWpPbA4HatQXkm5j4BQ&q=joyce+stengel+interview&oq=joyce+stengel+interview&gs_l=psy-ab.3...12600.14357.0.14536.10.10.0.0.0.0.172.1193.2j8.10.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.9.1026...0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.5GESkwHCI-0
(interviews, including one with NPR)
NOVELS:
The Caribbean Jewels Mystery, 1996;
Letting Go, 1997;
Sara Takes Charge, 1998;
Kittiwake Bay, 1999;
Katie O', 2000;
Mystery at Kittiwake Bay, 2001;
Mystery of the Island Jewels, 2002.
PICTURE BOOK:
St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice, 2009;
The Disappearance of Amanda Wrenn, 2016
Lenona
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