Constance Joy Alvarez

16 days after her 102nd birthday Constance Joy escaped her failing body, leaving this earth to her well deserved reward. Born in Denver Colorado on July 4, 1914 to Henry Charles Reimer and Lillian Mae Carnahan Reimer, she maintained a love for that place and her family connection there. This although the three moved east to her next beloved place ,Brooklyn, living briefly on Eastern Parkway while their house was built on W. 4th St., then a dirt road with but three houses. There she attended a one room schoolhouse until the third grade, told stories of lamplighters, a place at the table for the uninvited guest, and The Depression, the huge lesson of her life. Now tales of jobs that lasted one or two weeks, and some only one day. ...but she, her friends and husband to be, rode the subway in formal clothes, dancing their way to Manhattan… He predeceased her when they were both in their 51st year. By then they lived in Bronxville New York. After a brief time she became Director of Volunteers at Lawrence Hospital, a position she loved and was devoted to. Now 65, she retired after earning the American Legions Americanism Award and moved to Orleans MA- the Cape, she had found her Paradise. Busy with art groups, book clubs, volunteering and entertaining her ever visiting family and friends,,, she treasured her surrounds and now loved Cape Cod. Constance, as she many times told her devoted children, loved her wonderful parents, her jobs, her husband, her art involvement, and the places and people she encountered each day.

In 2005 she moved to The Fountains at Millbrook NY creating a new life, new friends and staff to care about and love.

She is survived by her children and daughters in law Constance Durham, Donald and Antoinette Alvarez, and Richard and Denise Alvarez, nine grandchildren 17 great-grandchildren and six great great grandchildren, all devoted to her.

She was predeceased by her husband, Manuel Charles Alvarez, her brother Robert La Wall Reimer and a son in law James Michael Durham.

The family wishes to thank The Fountains at Millbrook, the Doctors and staff of Care Mount Medical Group, Vassar Hospital, and Hospice of Dutchess County for their caring expertise.

Constance's art is in many homes and her spirit is in many lives… She lived a life of integrity, generosity and kindness and that left us with the greatest gift of all, to know that we were loved.

Funeral Arrangements are entrusted to Allen Funeral Home- Millbrook.