Joyce Yvonne Shepherd, age 78, died at Santa Teresa Hospital in San Jose, on November 21, 2006, following a short illness.
She was born Joyce Waver on November 17, 1928, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the late Dorothy Mae and Frank Waver. On December 21, 1947 she was united in marriage to William Graham Shepherd in Winnipeg. After moving to the United States in 1951, Joyce and Graham lived in southern California. They then moved north to San Jose in 1969 and settled in San Martin in 1974 and started a pool business.
Joyce was a member of the tap dance group The Fabulous Flappers, Gilroy Golf Course, Women In Touch, and Flower Lovers. She was an avid lover of golf and bridge and played both regularly.
She was preceded in death by Graham in 1991. She is survived by her daughter and her husband, Joan and Tom Coffey, her son and his wife, Bill and Kelly Shepherd: her five grandchildren, Tom Coffey, Huntington Beach, CA, Kristine Shepherd, Hollister, CA Tim Coffey, Huntington Beach, CA, Sara Shepherd, Ventura, CA, Kacey Shepherd, Hollister, CA: and her great-grandson, Mathew Melville, Hollister, CA.
Visitation will be on Monday, November 27, 2006 from 5-8 pm with a Funeral Service to be held on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 11:00 am, both at Johnson Funeral Home, 17720 Monterey Street in Morgan Hill. Interment to follow.
