Laura Joyce Mathis Cregger
October 11, 1924 ~ February 24, 2015
Joyce Cregger, of Vienna, VA, passed away peacefully on February 24, 2015. She was born to the late Samuel J. and Rachel (Maudlin) Mathis in Milaca, Minnesota, the youngest of six girls.
The family lived there on a farm during the depression, supplementing Sam's income as a rural mail carrier with a few cows and chickens for butter and egg money. While a teenager she and her father contracted tuberculosis and spent months in TB sanitariums. Joyce recovered but her father died from the disease leaving her and Rachel on a meager widow's pension. Her sister Marjorie had moved to Washington DC and after graduating from high school Joyce and her mother joined her there. She found employment in the US government printing office, a job she held until her retirement.
During this time she married Hugh C. Cregger and they bought a house on Berry Street in Vienna where she and her husband raised champion Beagle dogs. They enjoyed life together with visits to the shore and time at their mountain cabin.
After Hugh's death she and Marjorie went on many trips in the US and abroad and spent winters in Anna Maria Florida. In recent years she traveled with her special niece Diane, visiting ancestral homesites and cemeteries of the Mathis', Cones and Damerons.
Besides her interest in genealogy she loved flower gardening, sewing, reading, and spent many hours as an office volunteer at Wesley. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and sisters Marion, Marjorie, Winifred, Virginia, and Joan.
By her request her ashes are to be scattered near their mountain cabin in Virginia.
Funeral Home:
Money & King Funeral Home
171 W. Maple Ave.
Vienna, VA
US 22180
The family lived there on a farm during the depression, supplementing Sam's income as a rural mail carrier with a few cows and chickens for butter and egg money. While a teenager she and her father contracted tuberculosis and spent months in TB sanitariums. Joyce recovered but her father died from the disease leaving her and Rachel on a meager widow's pension. Her sister Marjorie had moved to Washington DC and after graduating from high school Joyce and her mother joined her there. She found employment in the US government printing office, a job she held until her retirement.
During this time she married Hugh C. Cregger and they bought a house on Berry Street in Vienna where she and her husband raised champion Beagle dogs. They enjoyed life together with visits to the shore and time at their mountain cabin.
After Hugh's death she and Marjorie went on many trips in the US and abroad and spent winters in Anna Maria Florida. In recent years she traveled with her special niece Diane, visiting ancestral homesites and cemeteries of the Mathis', Cones and Damerons.
Besides her interest in genealogy she loved flower gardening, sewing, reading, and spent many hours as an office volunteer at Wesley. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and sisters Marion, Marjorie, Winifred, Virginia, and Joan.
By her request her ashes are to be scattered near their mountain cabin in Virginia.
Funeral Home:
Money & King Funeral Home
171 W. Maple Ave.
Vienna, VA
US 22180
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