Joyce Ferguson

1939 - 2025

We know you will join us in remembering our neighbor, Joyce Ferguson, who passed away on Saturday, August 9, 2025.

Joyce was a tireless advocate for Highland Meadows and a steadfast champion of Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association. Joyce moved to Highland Meadows and a home on Hackney Ln in 1965 with her husband Sam. In between a career and raising three children, she gave decades of dedicated service to help build the neighborhood that we all love.

Joyce was instrumental in the creation of our award winning Crime Watch group which was one of the first in the city of Dallas. But her service didn’t stop there, she actively patrolled with the group for many years along with her husband Sam.

Joyce’s love for animals drove her to help create our neighborhood Pet Watch program that has helped reunite pets with their owners and help abandoned pets find loving homes. In 2014 Joyce learned that Dallas Fire and Rescue was not equipped with pet oxygen masks that are necessary to save cats and dogs in a fire. Determined to make a difference Joyce and Pet Watch set out to raise funds to donate pet oxygen masks to every fire house in the city of Dallas.

Joyce worked with neighbors to create Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association and served on our board for decades as Communications Chair. In this role she prepared newsletters, organized printing and newsletter distribution. She helped create our Yard of the Month program, organized early beautification efforts along Northwest Highway and annual events like Butterfly Day. She was always available to answer a neighbor’s question, stop and say hello, share a laugh, or lend a sympathetic ear.

Joyce loved this neighborhood, its people, and its pets. She is survived by her three children, Kara Chumbley, Stacey Dennard, and Kyle Ferguson as well as two sons-in-law, four grandchildren, and her beloved rescue dog Rusty.

Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association is working with Dallas parks to place a memorial park bench and statue of a dog in one of our neighborhood parks to honor her service. You can support this effort by making a contribution below.