Joy Elizabeth Cornell was born April 13, 1962 in San Diego, California and passed away September 27th at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View after battling advanced cancer. She was beautiful, kind, funny, loving, and creative. She was a snappy dresser. She liked camping and a good martini. She was 54.

A lifelong resident of California (well, there was a brief fling with Colorado, but she didn't mean it), Joy loved her family, friends and life with deep devotion. She played a nurturing role in the lives of all she knew, and her quiet spirituality attracted people to her. Joy honored many different belief traditions, and happliy officiated numerous weddings. She was a long time member of Santa Cruz's Hiram Lodge as well.

Joy was a talented woman with a great sense of style--a closet decorator! She made the family home a heaven of peace and calm to all those who came to visit or to stay. She taught herself lampworking (glass) with amazing results, and her beaded jewelry is proudly displayed on the wrists and necks of family and friends.

At the time of her passing, Joy was Branch Manager of Old Republic Title Company in Capitola. She cherished her coworkers and her clients there and kept a secret stash of sour patch kids in her desk drawer for snack emergencies.

Mourning her loss are: her husband Henri; her father Channing Cornell (Diana); her mother Joyce Hutchison Waller; her daughters Claire, Nicole, Sophie (Jeremy), and Erin; her sisters Jennifer (Rick) and Polly; her grandchildren Josh, Melody, Meadow and Paige; and many loving aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

A memorial was held at Joy and Henri's home on October 1st.

We miss you, Joy--but we're sure you're an angel in heaven now. It's with so much sadness that we had to say goodbye, but we are so grateful to have surrounded you with our love. You leave a never-ending hole in our lives.

"It was beautiful as long as it lasted, the journey of my life...

...No, shed no tears, for I need them not.

All I need is your smile." -- --Rabindranath Tagor