Humanitarian and health advocate, Joyce Veda Abel has passed on at 79 on March 15, in her home in St Louis Park.

She was a selfless personality who dedicated all her life to assisting people and the community she found herself in with health care.

Joyce graduated from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and taught elementary school in Harlem.

Joyce Veda Abel started to raise awareness of rectal cancer after she survived the disease.

She then further set up colon screening programs at Honeywell, and conducted her master’s thesis on the disease, “The Cancer No One Wants to Talk About: Preventing Colon Cancer.”

Abel was a certified nurse practitioner who taught mental health nursing at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, where she helped immigrants and students struggling with anxiety to take the national nursing license exams.

Abel was born in New York City and grew up in Queens. She was the oldest daughter of three girls.

Her father was Jacob and her mother was Mona. John was a mechanical engineer and inventor and  Mona, was a chemistry teacher.

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Joyce Veda Abel cause of death

Joyce Veda Abel had been struggling with Parkinson’s disease for many years and finally gave up the ghost peacefully 0n March 15, with her family by her side.

Joyce Veda Abel husband and children

Joyce Veda Abel was married to Stuart D. Kaufman.

Abel met her husband when she went to the University of Chicago to acquire a degree in social work.

Her husband, Stuart D. Kaufman was in medical school then. The couple has two children called Jedediah Kaufman and Renanah Kaufman Lehner

When is Joyce Veda Abel funeral?

The burial service of Joyce Veda Abel was held on March 18 at Adath Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery in Crystal.

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