Joyce A. Hart

FAIRFIELD – Joyce A. Hart, 86, of Fairfield went to be with her Lord and Savior on June 25, 2025.

She was born in Barre, Vt. on Jan. 18, 1939, the daughter of the late Earl H. and Marcella A. (Provencher) Stewart. Joyce attended St. Monica School in Barre, Vt. and graduated from Millbury High School in Millbury, Mass., class of 1957. She was a communicant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church and Corpus Christi Parish.

Joyce was employed as an Ed Tech and substitute teacher for St. John Catholic School in Winslow for eight years. She was loved by the children and the families she worked with over the years, and Joyce always said, “it was the best job she ever had!”

She greatly enjoyed her time at school, and she also enjoyed watching Red Sox and Patriots’ games and her Tuesday breakfasts with the “Golden Girls.”

Besides her parents she was predeceased by her first husband, Robert E. Hart, who passed in 1981 and her second husband, Roland A. Pooler, who passed in 2024; her stepson, Stephen Pooler; and her brothers Richard and Ronald Stewart.

Joyce will be sadly missed by her children, Robert W. Hart, James R. Hart, Marcella A. “Marcie” Hart, Melody J. Hart Simpson and husband Peter, Janice Hart Paden, Nancy Paczesny, Gloria Pooler and John Pooler and wife Debra; many grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; many nieces, nephews, and cousins; and special people in her life, Jeannine Lord, Cheryl Walker, Cindy and Reggie Gilbert and the Poulliot family.

Calling hours will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday July 8, at Veilleux Redington Lawry Brothers, 8 Elm St. Waterville. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday July 9, at Notre Dame Catholic Church, 116 Silver St., Waterville. Burial will be beside her first husband in Pine Grove Cemetery in Hartland.

Services are under the care of Veilleux-Redington-Lawry Brothers, 8 Elm St., Waterville. An online guestbook may be signed and memories shared at http://www.vrlfuneralhome.com