Joyce Summers

Name: Joyce Summers
Type: Human
History: Joyce Summers is the single mother parent of Buffy and Dawn Summers. She was married to Hank Summers, who she met at her Homecoming Dance, but the two parted when neither of the could get along with each other that well. Joyce moved her and her daughter to Sunnydale after Buffy was expelled from Hemery High in Los Angeles and they pretty much had to leave town to start a new life. Joyce worked in a gallery, archiving arts.
Buffy and Joyce never had the most perfect mother/daughter relationship but it was tested even more when Joyce finally found out about Buffy being a vampire slayer. It took a while for Joyce to full comprehend and understand it but she soon did. Joyce was also one of the first to find out that Dawn wasn't actually her daughter, while she had her brain tumour. And unfortunately complications from that tumour killed her; after a operation in which the tumour was successfully removed, she had a fatal brain haemorrhage.