We all love you very much mom and will miss you forever. God Bless You All! Thanks to all the phone calls, flowers and prayers it meant so much to help us through this difficult time. Dad and her also went to Ottawa and PEI to visit relatives and they also went to the mountains.Our family wants to thank the doctors and nurses in the Lloyd Hospital that cared for her and our family. She enjoyed a trip to Nashville with her mom and daughter Fay. Mom enjoyed gardening, flowers, chickens, new baby calves, cats, rodeos and her beloved little dog Maggie and loved her family. When she married George Hansen in 1954 she finally had a permanent home then. Her parents lived in lots of different places because of her dad's work. Joyce was an only child because her baby brother died at birth. Joyce was born in Frog Lake, AB and was delivered by her Grandmother Kjenner. A New York Times review called the book "eticulously researched" and "rich with detail, drama and intrigue".Joyce Margret Hansen passed away at Lloydminster Hospital, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, at the age of 89 years. Hansen's 2004 book, African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women, profiles six prominent women, including Hatshepsut, Amina, and Elizabeth of Toro. Also with McGowan, Hansen wrote Freedom Roads (2003), a non-fiction account of the Underground Railroad, which Kirkus called "well-written, well-documented, imaginatively arranged". The book, which was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, detailed the 1991 discovery and excavation of a burial ground for slaves and free blacks in New York City. With Gary McGowan, Hansen wrote Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground (1998). Kirkus Reviews called the book "inspirational" and "effective as art and as history". Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made A Difference (1998) features short biographies of thirteen influential Black women, including neurosurgeon Alexa Canady, astronaut Mae Jemison, and activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Hansen has also written a number of non-fiction books for youth about African-American and African history. Her novels The Captive (1994) and I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (part of the Dear America series of books) were also named Coretta Scott King Honor Books.
The book, about a Black teenager serving with the Union Army in the Civil War, was the first of a trilogy of books that included Out From This Place (1998) and The Heart Calls Home (1999).
Which Way Freedom? (1986), her first work of historical fiction, was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. In addition to novels set in contemporary urban settings, Hansen has written a number of works of historical fiction about African-American history, including books about slavery and the Civil War.
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