Joyce Cohen, mother of Ridgefield resident and NY Mets broadcaster, Gary Cohen and beloved mother-in-law of Lynn Cohen passed away peacefully on January 2, 2023.
Joyce was born in the Bronx, NY, the daughter of Rose and Jack Marin. She proudly graduated from Hunter High School and earned a B.A. at Hunter College, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
A talented artist, she sidelined her artistic ambitions when she married, and taught school in Northport, Long Island, before joining her then-husband in Germany, where her first child was born; she did graduate work in English at Queens College. A long-time supporter of progressive causes, she went on the 1963 March on Washington and cast her last vote for Hillary Clinton. Snarky, irascible, irreverent and erudite, she was an avid reader and did not suffer fools gladly.