Joycelyn Craig O’Shaughnessy
Born: March 25,1936
Died: June 11, 2023
Joycelyn was a graduate of St. Stephen School, Grammar and High School. She loved her family passionately first and foremost in her life. She was an avid gardener, earning a Master Gardener Certificate. Her most precious moments were spent in her garden. She was a great lover of all types of music and loved to sing and dance. She was an animal lover, nature lover and bird watcher. She also had a large pond on her property and spent lots of time birdwatching and feeding her turtles. She loved to travel and spent many years doing so in America with her husband Mickey and several trips to Europe, Mexico, Canada, Tahiti and Hawaii. She was a great lover of books and spent a good deal of her time reading. She also loved sharing her books with friends. Her favorite group of ladies was from a card group called “13”. As much as she loved her husband, children and extended family her first true love was “our Lord Jesus Christ” who she felt was her trusted confidant and constant companion.
Preceded in death by her childhood sweetheart and husband for 54 years Michael “Mickey” O’Shaughnessy; her parents, Arnold and Daisy Craig; great grandson Ricardo Maurigi; father and mothers-in-law, Mike and Mildred O’Shaughnessy and Catherine O’Shaughnessy Misch; Brothers-in-law, Luther Gantner, Terry O’Shaughnessy and J.M. Kenny. Survived by her sister Joel Hymes and her children, Cathy Tauzin (Wes), Peggy Godfrey (Rene), Michael (Donna), Patrick (Tana), Julie Foster, Stephen (Laura). Grandmother of Rachel Maurigi, Shannon Jones, Jeffrey Penton, Rebecca Diguiseppi, Ryan Penton, Michael A. O’Shaughnessy, Amy Berghman, Stephen O’Shaughnessy, Scott O’Shaughnessy, Sean O’Shaughnessy, Shane O’Shaughnessy and Connor O’Shaughnessy and 25 great grandchildren. Also survived by her three sisters-in-law, Pat Gantner, Eileen Drouant and Sheila Yeadon; nieces, nephews and many dear lifelong friends.
A funeral mass will take place on July 8, 2023 at 11:00 a.m., at St. Benedict’s Catholic Church 20370 Smith Road, Covington, La, with visitation beginning at 10:00 a.m. A celebration of her life well lived will be held at Grace Funeral Home following inurnment in St. Lazarus of Bethany Memorial Garden. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to St. Michael’s Special School 1522 Chippewa St, New Orleans, La, 70130.
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