Joyce Ella Sandin

Funeral services for Joyce Sandin, age 81, of Milaca, will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 2 PM at Milaca Evangelical Free Church with Rev. Bruce Thompson and Rev. Don Matheson officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery in Milaca. Visitation will be from 5 – 8 PM on Tuesday at Peterson-Johnson Funeral Home in Milaca and 1 hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday. Music will be provided by Donna Pearson and Jackie Wilken. Casketbearers will include Wes Sahlstrom, John Sahlstrom, Peter Sahlstrom, Steve Wilken, Don Pearson, Ron Olson, Dick Wilken and Gordon Lundberg. Arr. Peterson-Johnson Funeral Home in Milaca. Joyce Ella Sandin was delivered by her grandmother on January 30, 1930 in Dailey Township to Hollis and Ruth (Johnson) Starr. Joyce attended District 27 country school, Milaca High School and St. Cloud State University. She accepted Christ as her Saviour at the Page Monday Night Bible Study in District 27 in 1947. Joyce taught at District 21, Bogus Brook, Foreston, Princeton, and at Bock for the Milaca Schools. Her summers were spent teaching D.V.B.S. in various areas for the American Missionary Fellowship, Milaca Evangelical Free Church and other churches. She also was a camp counselor and taught at several Bible Camps. She also taught Sunday School for fifty-seven years. She married Elving Sandin on September 1, 1956 and to this union was born one son, David and three daughters, Carolyn, Kay and Kristi. In later years, Joyce was a substitute teacher for the Princeton, Ogilvie, and Milaca Elementary Schools. Joyce died Friday, October 14, 2011 at the Milaca Elim Home. She is survived by her son, David Sandin of Franklin, MN; daughters, Kay Sandin of Litchfield and Kristi Sandin-Rieck and husband James Rieck of Brooklyn Park; granddaughter, Sophie; brother, Hollis “Jack” and wife Evelyn Starr of Holts Summit, MO; also by other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elving; daughter, Carolyn; sister, Bette Starr and her parents, Hollis and Ruth Starr.