Joyce says she is a Norfolk Dumpling

Joyce Meek , one of our more senior members, at 85 years, came along to lunch club after her husband died about 4 years ago.  She decided that she had to get out and about and a change of her way of life. She has always attended church from her earliest memories.

 Joyce was born in East Rudham near Fakenham and says she is a Norfolk Dumpling through and through. During the war years she was sent to Sheffield to manage a shoe shop; there was a shortage of male managers and of course Norfolk was a big shoe manufacturing area. She married in Sheffield (but to a Norfolk lad) and had her three children there, staying altogether for about fourteen years.

Joyce says she was very glad to get back to Norfolk and all her family. She continued working in the shoe industry and her husband was contracts manager for the building firm of John Youngs . They had three children and all are still fairly close, one in Lowestoft , one at Shotesham and one in London . She has grandchildren now and five great grandchildren who she sees regularly. Joyce is very thankful for a lovely family.

At St Marks Joyce ran the Brownies; enjoyed being part of, and president of the Bowls Club. One of her great achievements at the age of seventy was learning to swim. She enjoys lunch club and the services that follow and has been attending Sunday worship for some time now.  She finds New Hope and the church family ‘exceptional’ in warmth and friendliness and has introduced several friends to our congregation. Now, Joyce is considering a new step in faith, that of her baptism.

 Thank you Joyce for being one of our family and bringing so much life and experience.