Joyce Fay Lockhart Wildenthal
June 7, 1937 - Jan. 7, 2025
Joyce Fay Lockhart Wildenthal (1937–2025)
Joyce Fay Lockhart Wildenthal, 87, died peacefully asleep in her rural home near Williamston, Michigan, on January 7, 2025. She was in declining health for many years. She had a long career as a biological laboratory technician and manager at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing and a lifelong love for science.
Joyce was an excellent student who graduated third in her 1955 Alpine High School class. She spent the first twenty years of her life in Alpine, a small town in the Big Bend region of west Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1959 from the University of Texas in Austin, while also taking some classes at Sul Ross State College (now University) in Alpine.
She received her Master of Arts in Zoology in 1963 from the University of Kansas, focusing on ornithology, and her Master of Science in Resource Development in 1989 from MSU. Her first master’s thesis, Structure in Primary Song of the Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) was published in the scientific journal The Auk in 1965.
In word and deed, Joyce supported civil rights and equal treatment for people of all races and creeds. As a high school senior, in solidarity with a Black Latina friend and classmate
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