Obituary for Joyce Emily Thompson (Perrin)
A prairie girl at heart, Joyce was born in Virden, Manitoba and raised in Kronau, Saskatchewan. She experienced a typical Canadian farm life before moving to Regina and then Yorkton as a young woman. In Yorkton, she met and married her husband, Ron in 1965. That same year they made their home in Brandon, Manitoba. She raised three children, Earl, Mark, and Lara, who kept her busy with the predictable unpredictability that children always had.
In between being a bookkeeper, administrative assistant, and mother, Joyce still found time to quench the explorer in her. She enjoyed a good adventure, as well as camping, canoeing, though she hated the water, and even earned her pilot’s license. She always enjoyed a good road trip and when Joyce’s brother Ed and family stopped in for a visit, conversation seemingly always turned to who went where and when the next trip is going to happen.
All through Joyce’s life, she had a keen eye for a good writer, and a good book. As a life-long library card holder, Mom would regularly come home lugging a bag of books over her shoulder from the Western Manitoba Regional Library.
Joyce’s children were her world and when Debbie, Sherri and Cameron met Mom, though her children’s relationships, she folded them into her arms and heart as though they were her own. Predictably, not a birthday would go by without a card and a crisp fifty showing up in the mail.
Earl, her first son, left her too soon in 2018, and a period of health issues challenged her, but she faced them with the same determination and stubbornness that embodied her character right through her life.
Left to remember Joyce are her two children Mark (Sherri) and Lara (Cameron); daughter-in-law Debbie; brother Ed Perrin (Heather) of Red Deer, Alberta and nephew Carmon Perrin, of Regina, Saskatchewan.
In between being a bookkeeper, administrative assistant, and mother, Joyce still found time to quench the explorer in her. She enjoyed a good adventure, as well as camping, canoeing, though she hated the water, and even earned her pilot’s license. She always enjoyed a good road trip and when Joyce’s brother Ed and family stopped in for a visit, conversation seemingly always turned to who went where and when the next trip is going to happen.
All through Joyce’s life, she had a keen eye for a good writer, and a good book. As a life-long library card holder, Mom would regularly come home lugging a bag of books over her shoulder from the Western Manitoba Regional Library.
Joyce’s children were her world and when Debbie, Sherri and Cameron met Mom, though her children’s relationships, she folded them into her arms and heart as though they were her own. Predictably, not a birthday would go by without a card and a crisp fifty showing up in the mail.
Earl, her first son, left her too soon in 2018, and a period of health issues challenged her, but she faced them with the same determination and stubbornness that embodied her character right through her life.
Left to remember Joyce are her two children Mark (Sherri) and Lara (Cameron); daughter-in-law Debbie; brother Ed Perrin (Heather) of Red Deer, Alberta and nephew Carmon Perrin, of Regina, Saskatchewan.