Joyce Bouffard Freeman
Deceased

Joyce died on May 16, 2019, at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 72. She was born on May 2, 1947, in Bridgeport CT. Her parents Gerald and Helen Bouffard soon moved to Sharon where she grew up. She graduated from Sharon High School and Aquinas College in Milton.

Joyce met her future husband Leslie Freeman while they both worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jamaica Plain. She and Les moved to Marthas Vineyard in 1970 while he assumed management of the Islands MSPCA. She loved the Vineyard and enjoyed her time working at Lawrys Seafood restaurant and in her role as bookkeeper at various Island businesses and banks. But most of all, Joyce loved raising her only child Geoffrey. She enjoyed adopting, sometimes not by choice, many dogs and cats and various animals Les brought home from the animal shelter. Later in life, she enjoyed her quiet time gardening and spoiling her granddaughters Kaitlyn and Emily.

Joyce was predeceased by Les in 2006 and her mother in 2018. She was survived by her son Geoffrey and his wife and two granddaughters of Edgartown. She is buried in the New Westside Cemetery in Edgartown.