Joyce E. (Crutchfield) Lewandowski

Joyce E. Lewandowski (nee Crutchfield)

of West Seneca, at the age of 101 Years.

Wife of the late Richard Edward Lewandowski.

Mother of Bernice (Anthony) Luppino, Janet (David) Hughey, Patricia (William) Welisevich & Donna Lewandowski.

Sister of the late Ronald (Nancy) Crutchfield and the late Edward (late Henrietta) Crutchfield.

Also survived by 11 Grandchildren, 16 Great Grandchildren & 6 Great-Great Grandchildren.

Visitation Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. at NORMAN E. GANNON & SONS, Inc. FUNERAL HOME, 1075 Ridge Rd.; Lackawanna (716-824-4000).

Friends are invited to join the family for The Mass of Christian Burial at ST. JOHN XXIII CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1 Arcade St., West Seneca Thursday at 10 a.m.

The Funeral Mass will be "live-streamed". Please see link below.

Entombment to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery-Sacred Heart Mausoleum.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages memorials to The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care. "Please see the link to Hospice below".

Mrs. Lewandowski's Life Story

Joyce Lewandowski was born in London, England in 1924 to a loving and musical family. Sundays would be music time at her grandparents’ house filled with aunts, uncles, and cousins and of course, everyone playing their instruments.

As a girl she loved the ocean and explored the caves with her older brother. WWII started when she was a young woman, so she had to leave school and get a job.

Joyce started making bomb release switches for war planes at a factory near her home in High Wycombe. Joyce was also an Air Raid Warden with her father, running the streets when the alarm went off to make sure there were no lights on in the houses so the Nazis would not see the lights and drop the bombs on them.

She loved dancing and would go to the town hall for Friday outings with her girlfriends and mostly American soldiers.
Joyce soon fell in love with an American boy, married, moved to Buffalo, NY and had four children.

These four children then blessed her with eleven grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren.
Joyce loved traveling and crafting with her best friends Aggie and Lillian along with attending cake decorating classes, leading her to craft beautiful wedding cakes and other holiday goodies.

She loved her garden, and springtime could not come fast enough so she could start buying flowers to plant and watch her beautiful bluebells and roses bloom.

Joyce volunteered for Meals on Wheels for over twenty years till she was ninety-four and donated over forty gallons of blood to the Red Cross.

Most of all, she loved Jesus, her family, and friends whom she poured her life into.
Joyce will truly be missed; she left an empty space in many hearts.

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