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Joyce Arlene Kraft, worked at Hess’

Joyce Arlene Kraft, 94, life-long Allentown resident, died June 28, 2019, in Lehigh Valley Hospital. She was a daughter of the late Roy and Anna (Jacoby) Snyder. She was the wife of the late Melvin Edwin Kraft.

She was a 1941 graduate of Allentown High School.

She was last employed at General Electric. Previously she worked in Hess’s department store.

She is survived by one sister, Joanne Light of Upper Macungie; three children: Beverly Jane Stewart and her husband David Bengston of Woodstock, Illinois, KayEllen and her husband David Smith of Whitehall and Randall Melvin and his wife Irene Kraft of Upper Milford; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

She was a member of St. John’s United Church of Christ, Emmaus; and was formerly a long-time member of Grace Lutheran Church, Allentown, where she taught Sunday School.

Contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

Arrangements were made by Sell-Herron Funeral Home Inc., Allentown.