1939
2017
Joyce Marie (Wyttenberg) Combs was born in Portland, Oregon on May 2, 1939 to Warner E. and Mary Leah Wyttenberg. Her twin brother is Eugene W. Wyttenberg of Portland. She has a sister Carolyn Leopold of Beaverton and had a half-brother Robert L. Andrews of Auburn, Washington. There are ten nieces and nephews, 28 grand nieces and nephews and five great-grand nieces and nephews.
Joyce was always devoted to her family. She was the bridge that held all our families together. Her love and caring heart also overflowed to her friends and neighbors.
She loved to visit her neighbors at the Holly Tree Village where she lived the past fourteen years. They played games, visited and went shopping together. Everyone she came in contact with was greeted with love, and when they parted she would say, "God bless you, I love you".
Once a week after school the twins attended a Youth for Christ Club with many friends. After graduating from Beaverton High School Joyce and Gene worked in a cousins bakery until they closed the bakery permanently. Joyce received a diploma from Portland Secretarial School and took a few classes at Cascade Collage before deciding to become a nurse's aide at Good Samaritan Hospital. She worked faithfully the swing and mostly the grave yard shift for 28 years before retiring in 1992 to give total care to her Daddy who passed in 1996.
The Wyttenberg family attended Beaverton First Christian Church, then Tigard Evangelical Church. In high school she followed Gene to Cedar Mill Bible Church where she sang in the choir and taught a 4's & 5's Sunday school class. After a short marriage to Jim Combs she attended Beaverton Four Square and later Portland Nazarene while she cared for her Daddy.
Joyce loved the Lord with all her heart, soul and mind. Spending quiet and focused time with Jesus was her favorite thing to do. She was a real prayer warrior. Joyce loved God's creation, especially pink tulips. She praised the Lord all the time for His goodness and blessings. Her life chapter was Isaiah 54 and her life verse was Matthew 6:25. Her closest Friend was the Lord Jesus Christ. She depended on Him for everything including her life. She was very ready to see Jesus after two plus years of cancer. Her last 25 days she lived with Gene and Dolly being lovingly cared for, visited and loved on by several friends and family members. Joyce hung on to celebrate one last birthday with her twin. The next day, when the bath-aide turned Joyce on her side, she quietly went home to Jesus.
A celebration of Joyce's life will be held at Cedar Mill Bible Church on Sunday, May 21st, at 1:30pm.
Joyce will be laid to rest in Skyline Memorial Gardens in the garden of Devotion.
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Arrangements under the direction of Skyline Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, Portland, OR. (503) 292-6611
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May 13, 2017
the lives she touched have flourished....
the seeds she planted grew..
The beauty of her spirit lingers on.
May 11, 2017
Bonnie Lesher
I can hear Aunt Joyce saying, "Wunderful!" as she entered heaven. I know the first person she saw was Jesus and I am betting that her Mom and Daddy were not far off to the side waiting to give that long-awaited hug. Aunt Joyce will be missed greatly here on earth but I rejoice that she is now where she has always looked forward to being. I am grateful for the legacy that she has left behind. I remember in the 4's & 5's Sunday School class, her heels clicking to the floor in rhythm, as she taught me 2 Chronicles 25:8 "God has power to help." It stuck!
May 11, 2017
Daniel Struk
Joy bells are ringing here and heaven! We will see you in the future! Dan S. & Chico
May 11, 2017
cathy crawford
Dear Uncle Gene and Aunt BG, Thank you for including Joyce at various times when we reunited as family. Although we didn
May 11, 2017
Pat and Jarka Mitchell
Our deepest condolences to the loss of your twin and sister in law. Am so thankful you two got to spend your birthday together one more time before Joyce went into our Lord Jesus' arms. May the Lord comfort you with His presence and love. We send our love and prayers with hugs too, Jarka, Pat and our Kazakh girl Naila
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