Remembering Joyce Tusan-Dalton

A memorial service has been set for Davis resident Joyce Tusan-Dalton, who passed away after a tragic kayaking accident last Sunday.

Tusan-Dalton was an art teacher at Vanden High School. Shortly after news of her death spread, students and friends took to her Facebook wall with .

A memorial Facebook event has since been created, as well as a website: rememberingjoycedalton.com. The site appears to still be under construction, but memorial details are posted.

It will be held on September 10, from 5-8 pm at the Pathway Assembly of God in Woodland.

People close to Tusan-Dalton continue to share stories of their lost friend. Here’s a note left on her Facebook wall, from Laura Fanning Nugent:

While doing circle with my preschoolers today I found a note from you, Joyce Tusan-Dalton in my cd binder with a song/dance called chicadee, I got really emotional but had to hold it together in front of the little ones, I miss you so much already, but know you are loving it in heaven!

Here’s a note from Staci Hawley Praske:

Joyce. You were a such a lovely person. You were so real. I am lucky to have crossed paths with you. When I told Sebastian that I had lost a friend, he wanted to know about you. So now, on our walk to Kindergarden we look up at the clouds and imagine what animals and mythical creatures we see, we call it the *Joyce* game. :) Seeing the extraordinare in the everyday is what you did best. Thanks for being you, Joyce, beautiful you.

You can visit Tusan-Dalton’s memorial Facebook event page here for more information. See her obituary in the Davis Enterprise.