JOYCE L. HURD (1928 - 2010)
Joyce Hurd, 81, a long time resident of Skagit Valley died in Mount Vernon on Friday January 15th, 2010. She was born in Great Falls, Montana on July 16th 1928, the daughter of Estol and Charlotte (Kollenborn) Mael. Joyce was raised by her mother and step-father George Keyes. She graduated from Anacortes High School with the class of 1946. After graduation Joyce worked in California where she met and married her life-long spouse, John R. Hurd, in 1948.
The early years of Joyce and John's marriage were spent traveling in Washington and Oregon for John's construction work and raising a family. After a brief work assignment in Michigan City, Indiana, they moved back to the West coast and spent ten years in Seattle, Washington, where Joyce did seasonal work for the US Post Office and enjoyed the company of her good friends playing bridge and bowling on a Seattle league team.
In 1969 the couple settled on a farm in Mount Vernon, Washington. Joyce worked side-by-side with her husband John as they began a very successful business raising Straight Egyptian Arabian horses. For many years the farm was the gathering place for important family events and celebrations. Joyce enjoyed gardens, music (she had a wonderful singing voice), and reading novels.
Joyce's family was central to her life. She tirelessly dedicated her best thoughts and generous actions to helping her family succeed. Joyce is survived by her two daughters, Shannon Pollo and her husband Steve, and their children Lance and Trevor; daughter Lori Wolden and her husband John.
Her two sons, John Hurd and his wife Julia, and their children Eliot and Spencer, and Eliot's wife Kyra and their son Eason; son Tim Hurd and his wife Lynne, and their children Elaine and Byron. Her three brothers Jerry Keyes of Dallas, Oregon, Terry Keyes of Moses Lake, Washington, Stanley Mael of Coeur D'ÇAlene, Idaho, and her sister Patricia Henslee of Kettle Falls, Washington.
She was preceded in death by her parents and John, her husband of 51 years.
Joyce will be held in loving memory and greatly missed each day. Memorials may be made to Skagit Hospice Foundation (P. O. Box 1376, Mount Vernon, WA 98273.
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Published in Skagit Valley Herald Publishing Company on January 20, 2010
5 comments:
very nicely done and well written as well.
i really like the photograph
Tim and Shannon did a marvelous job with the obit. I guess people (us) use the high school graduation photo 'cuz that was when a person is coming into their own with their whole life before them, huh? So sweet. Kinda ties things up nicely.
January 22, 2010
I remember Joyce fondly. I took care of the horses several times in the early 80's when the family took vacations. A particular highlight was delivering one of the colts, Moonraker, the morning she, John and Lori returned home from Disneyland. She was a dear lady, and will be missed very much. My sympathy goes out to her entire family.
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Tammy Gray-Pinneke,
Burlington, Washington
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(from SVH Obit Guest Book)
January 23, 2010
Our thoughts and prayers are with you Lori and John, and the rest of your family.
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Ron & Ginger,
Bow, Washington
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