In Loving Memory of
JOYCE PAULINE KRAUSE PENNIE
20 May 1930 - 26 June 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006, 3:30 pm
Joyce Pauline Krause
Pennie 76, passed away Monday, June 26, 2006, at 3:30
pm, at the home she shared with her husband in Spokane, Washington. Joyce was born in Littleton, Colorado, and was
the third of six children born to Karl Christian Krause of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kansas and Wanetta Frances Caldwell of Dade County, Missouri.
As a youth, Joyce was artistically talent, entering
many Art contests and she always placed.
Joyce attended Biola
Bible College in Los Angeles, California.
She began with a music major, playing instrumental piano, and later
transferred to a Bible major, while employed at the Biola Christian Book Store.
At that time Joyce met Ethyle Mercy Bodeker who was a Pentecostal
Minister. Six months later Ethyle
invited Joyce over for dinner where her son Stan Pennie was expected to be
coming to visit while he was stationed at George Air Force Base. The introduction went well. As Stan got away on military leave, they
courted, while she was a student at Biola.
At the age of 26, Joyce Pauline Krause Married Stan Pennie, in Yuma,
Arizona in 1956.
In 1957 Joyce and Stan
were employed by Mac Donald Douglas. Joyce was a high speed Secretarial Typist,
and Stan was an Aircraft Mechanic. This
allowed them to purchase their first home in Santa Maria, California.
To
this union two children were born, Laurie Lee Pennie aka Iris Siri of Shambhala,
and David Stanley Pennie.
Joyce
helped Stan with his studies, typing ALL his term papers, as he went on to
receive many degrees in criminology, that later enticed him into a Law
enforcement career becoming a Sheriff, Sergeant, Special Deputy, and U.S. Marsha l who guarded federal prisoners.
Joyce
was very gifted! In the kitchen she
prepared meals with love and excelled in her baking talents. She decorated her cakes with a professional
flair, often featuring Angel Food Cake, but her fudge was unforgettable. Many
years she entered numerous items in the Santa Barbara County Fair and almost
always placed very high!
In
the yard she loved to graph fruit trees, she had beautiful berry and grape vines,
and award winning roses. Inside, Joyce had many plants, and often talked to her
“Creeping Charlie.” When Joyce took
sewing classes at Betty’s Fabrics in Santa Maria, she developed the art of
Lingerie making, Suit making, Quilting, and also enjoyed Knitting Sweaters and
Afghans! Joyce sewed most of Laura and David’s clothing in early childhood, and
knit their sweaters.
Joyce
was always into nutrition, and referred to her herb books when family members
or friends became ill or injured. She
also had herbs in the yard to assist in healing. One favorite was comfrey, as she would cut
off a leaf, pulverize it with a large wooden mallet, and then place the
dripping pulp on the wound making a poultice!
Joyce
was very supportive when her children wanted to get birds so they built a large
bird aviary! Joyce made friends with the
park ranger Mr. Stone at Waller Park who would give her the fresh fertilized
eggs, and she would take them home and put them in a brewter where many
hatched! When the chicks hatched, it
required feeding many by eye droppers!
The bird hobby grew into ducks, geese, pheasant, quail, partridge,
chickens and gunnies’. In the garage
were large double sided cages on rollers, which held exotic parakeets, Cockatiels
and love birds.
When Laura became interested
in dog obedience training, and took classes at Allan Hancock College with her 6th
grade teacher Mrs. Virginia Lewis. Joyce
was again very supportive of the new adventure.
Joyce became friends with a cocker spaniel breeder by the name of Jan
Tiboni who let us raise a beautiful buff puppy for show!
In 1975, Joyce worked with her daughter Laura at the
Gallery, a women’s consignment clothing store. They were hired by the owner
Julia, after Laura went onto the store to look around, and could not find any
sales person. Joyce and Laura got
creative, and called an emergency number next to the phone, who turned out to
be the owner and she rushed right over.
Julia Williams was so impressed with such honesty, that she hired both
mother and daughter. Laura was age 14 at
the time.
Eventually,
Joyce took up Porcelain Doll making, and making of the tiny doll clothes,
better and more beautiful than store bought! Whatever she embarked on seemed to turn to gold. Joyce was constantly out
competing herself.
In 1977 Joyce went to work for Farmers Insurance
Company, as a Secretary, and Personal Assistant. Her boss and owner “Mac” respected Joyce and
told the other agents not to talk rude in front of Joyce! Mac smoked so many cigars, that Joyce finally
brought in an air purifier. Mac was
bummed, because he liked the smell of his smoke. Mac, was on blood pressure medicine, one day
collapsed on the tennis court quite suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage also
referred to as a stroke. There were doctors on the court, but it did not help
as they could not revive him, and he died in 1979.
In 1983 Stan & Joyce sold their house in Santa Maria,
and moved everything to Spokane, Washington.
1988
Joyce began working for “All About Windows” as a custom seamstress, sewing
draperies, custom edging, and ironing (while standing on concrete, sweating,
hot all day long, no sitting or even standing on a pad). From then on Joyce had pain in the feet and
heels from all the standing. Joyce
stopped working there in 1995 after seven years of employment.
Joyce
was 5’ 6” ¼ in height, stunning brown eyed brunette with thick curly hair, who
greatly resembled Marlo Thomas.
Joyce
was an amazingly angelic being, an extraordinary heart connected soul who
deeply loved her children, and husband who she supported in loyal devotion. Joyce was spiritually aligned as she
co-creatively organized her garden with mother earth, and enjoyed serving her
community through Church callings, as she looked for the “Saviors Return.” She is greatly loved and missed and then
loved some more.
Joyce was survived by her husband Stan Pennie; son David
Stanley Pennie (Margaret Fleming aka Maggie) of Spokane, Washington; her
daughter Laura Lee Pennie aka Iris Siri of Shambhala; and her children Chad
Austin Jessop and Crystal Lynn Jessop: her sister’s Reva Louise Krause Wright
of Brighton, Colorado; and her surviving children; & sister Carolyn Diana
Krause Ewertz of Byers, Colorado, and her children.
Monday, June 26, 2006, 3:30 pm
Do not stand at my
grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning’s hush
I am the soft uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
~Anonymous
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning’s hush
I am the soft uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
~Anonymous
I was blessed to have a sweet mother Joyce Pauline Krause Pennie, who gave
me life and an endless supply of love, thank you.
I miss you more than words can
possibly express.
MAY WE PLANT A TREE
HONORING HER MEMORY!