Joyce Anderegg

Joyce Anderegg was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, a county whose largest employer was, and is, the Allegheny National Forest. The area with its wooded hills seemed homelike to her Grandfather Anderegg when he followed other Swiss emigrants to Pennsylvania. Her father, Carl (or Karl Ernst on his baptismal record), returned from World War I, established himself as a barber, and courted Mercedes Gardner. They were married November 2, 1920, the first presidential election in which women could vote. “Mother voted in the morning, and was married in the afternoon by her pastor at the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her memories of Queen Esther’s became a formative influence.” Joyce was oldest of the four children in the family. Her youngest sister, known as Teedie Hagberg, lives in Venice, Florida. Brother, John, now retired, has always lived in Florida. Joyce's work history includes the despised job of stuffing envelopes for a mail order company, ideal training for one active in United Methodist Women. She has also chased aircraft hardware through the manufacturing process; searched legal and accounting records for the land office of a public utility required to establish new records of its fifty-year history to satisfy new government regulations; and nearly thirty years in quality control for Sylvania and its successor - as secretary, technician and supervisor.

During those same years, she was active in Otterbein Guild and Woman's Missionary Association of Erie Conference of the United Brethren in Christ Church and, subsequently, the Evangelical United Brethren Church and, after 1968, the United Methodist Church, serving as delegate to the 1972 and 1976 General Conferences. En route to Nigeria with Colleen Weekley in 1962, she visited Sierra Leone where one of their hostesses was Elaine Gasser. When Elaine joined the staff of Women's Society of World Service, the friendship prospered. After Joyce's retirement from industry in 1979, she and Elaine bought a "co-op" near "475". For eleven years, Joyce was a consultant to General Board of Global Ministries, working with its program of "Current and Deferred Giving,” an assignment that brought friendship with Doris Gidney. After 1990 retirements, Joyce and Elaine bought a home in Maryville, TN where they lived until moving to Brooks-Howell.

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