(May 2, 1920-November 15, 2003)

NORWOOD--Joy Iris Dicker, 83, of 26 Baldwin Ave., formerly of Potsdam, died Saturday morning at United Helpers Canton Nursing Home, where she had resided since Sept. 26.

Mrs. Dicker was actively involved in Literacy Volunteers and helped many students learn to speak English. She also was organist for many years at Daily Ridge Presbyterian Church and enjoyed playing the piano.

Born May 2, 1920, in Southampton, England, the daughter of William and Frances Bennett, she received scholarships to further her education in England and was very interested in language and travel.

She was a French and English teacher in Belgium, a piano teacher and also an air-raid warden during the Battle of Britain in World War II.

During the war, she met and married Arthur "Sammy" Dicker, a member of the U.S. Army Medical Corps and a bacteriologist. The couple moved in 1946 to New Jersey, where they raised a family until Mr. Dicker’s death in 1964. She continued to raise her family in New Jersey until moving to the north country in 1982.

Surviving are a son, Julian, Norwood; a daughter, Avril Potter, Norwood; two brothers, Bill and Norman Bennett, both of Southampton, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

A memorial service will be a 2 p.m. Monday at Daily Ridge Presbyterian Church.

There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Buck Funeral Home.

(From the Sunday, November 16, 2003 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page B6).