Joy Marie Strickland

Featured in: May 2018

STRICKLAND — Joy Marie (Heard), 31; born Oct. 4, 1985, Aberdeen, Wash.; died Sept. 30, 2017, Hoquiam, Wash. Surviving: son, Peyton, Hoquiam; daughters, Savannah Strickland and Madelynn Strickland, both of Hoquiam; father, Max Heard, Ocean Park, Wash.; mother, Carol Daitey, Aberdeen; brothers, Paul Heard and Clint Heard, both of Aberdeen; sister, Tovi Barclay, Hoquiam; 6 nephews, a grandnephew; 2 grandnieces; and fiancé, Brian Jasper.

Joy would have been 32 in four days, but she was killed in a vehicular homicide, leaving behind a family and community to mourn their loss.