Joyce (Gilsdorf) Marr ’64

9 January 2024
Joyce (Gilsdorf) Marr

Class: 1964

Major: Biology

Residence: Henrico, VA

Deceased: May 12, 2016

Obituary

Joyce graduated from Clayton High School in Richmond Heights, Missouri. She married Dr. Weaver Marr who had been a German professor at Carleton until 1965 and later a professor of German at the University of Richmond, Virginia.

Joyce was a biology major at Carleton. But after graduation, she immediately discovered that asthma and allergies prevented her from working in small animal labs.

At that point, she got into tax work “because the math is not hard.” She became a CPA in 1987 and then worked for the Internal Revenue Service until retiring in 2006.

She was always seeking new challenges and beauty. She loved classical music, especially Bach, sewing and quilting, collecting beautiful things, travel, and all things animals–especially her cats.

Her greatest joys were members of her family. In retirement she traveled to more than 25 countries and six continents, taking her entire family on an Alaskan cruise in the summer of 2012 to celebrate her 70th birthday.

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