Joyce McHaffie
13/05/1932 – 25/05/2016
Born on Friday the 13 th May 1932,
Joyce Eileen Gertrude Poston was
an only child.
She grew up in Croftend Avenue
and attended St Oswalds all her life.
A pupil of Croftfoot Primary and Kings Park
Secondary Schools, she left aged 18 years.
Joyce could have gone on to Art School but,
as her father was restricted to a wheelchair,
she needed to work and became a counter
clerk at The Trustee Savings Bank.
The McHaffie’s lived at 328 Kingsacre Road
and both families attended St Oswald’s Episcopal Church where Bill & Joyce
first met.
Joyce recalled how Bill “assumed he was my boyfriend” and that he would walk
home beside her from functions.
After Bill completed his National Service, they were married on 12 December
1955 at St Oswald’s and set up the marital home in 207 Kingsheath Avenue
where Joyce was to live for a further 60 years.
She loved her garden and also enjoyed long friendships with many great
neighbours.
In 1957 Morag was born and, three years later, Neil completed the family.
Family hoidays featured prominently on the McHaffie calendar with Dungiven in
Northern ireland and the Norfolk Broads being Joyce’s favourite spots.
Morag and Neil recollect that their Mum would pack for every eventuality and
that, consequently, they used to set off heavily burdened with an excessive
amount of baggage!
In their later years, Joyce and Bill s t i l l enjoyed t h e i r holidays, day trips,
coach trips, trips abroad and - on their 40 th anniversary – a
Mediterranean cruise.
Morag and Neil both trained as teachers, although Morag never taught and
now works with The Care Inspectorate.
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