Joy Louisa Collver

COLLVER — Joy Louisa (Manley), 91; born June 6, 1930, Willamina, Oregon; died Oct. 29, 2021, Hood River, Oregon. Surviving: sons, William Stuivenga and Douglas Stuivenga; daughters, Kathleen Davis and Wanda Barker; step-sons, Robert Collver and Bruce Collver; sisters, Melissa Cochran and Verna Manley; sisters-in-law, Marcella Manley and Izella Stuivenga; 8 grandchildren, 14 step-grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.

Joy was the middle child of nine siblings. Her mother always said it was because she was so happy to finally have a girl after four boys, that she named her first daughter, Joy!

Joy graduated from Laurelwood Academy in 1949, and attended Walla Walla College, after which she taught for a year in a small Seventh-day Adventist church school in Ocean Park, Washington.

She married Glenn Stuivenga on June 24, 1951, at the Tillamook Seventh-day Adventist Church. They were married for 53 years until Glenn passed away in 2005. For most of that time they resided on Harmony Road, about six miles outside of Sheridan, Oregon.

Joy married Dale Collver in 2011; Dale passed away in 2017.

Joy was a life-long, third-generation Seventh-day Adventist. As a member of the Grande Ronde, Oregon, and McMinnville, Oregon Seventh-day Adventist churches, she served as church treasurer, and held other offices.

She supported many missionary causes, including The Quiet Hour, Three Angel's Broadcasting, International Children's Care, Bangla Hope, Amazing Facts, and went on two mission trips, one to Mexico, and one to Belize (on her honeymoon with Dale!).