OBITUARY: 9 July, 1935 - The Lewis County Advocate, Chehalis, Washington
DEATH CALLS GEORGE C. JOY
Prominent Lewis County Resident, State Forester for Eight Years, Died Sat. After Short Illness
George C. Joy, aged 65, a resident of Lewis county for 60 years and state forester for eight years under Gov. Roland H. Hartley, died in a Chehalis hospital Thursday, July 4, following an illness of two weeks. He had been in ill health the past two years but had been active in his work until recently.
Mr. Joy was born February 7, 1870, at Albion, Mendocino, Cal., the seventh child in a family of ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hodgson Joy, who came to California in 1851. The family moved to Washington territory in 1878 and settled on Boistfort prairie in Lewis county. Mr. Joy attended the rural schools at Boistfort until he was 18, when he attended the Olympia Collegiate Institute. He was a life-long member of the Methodist church.
In 1901 Mr. Joy entered the employment of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company and remained with them until the organization of Washington State Forest Fire association in 1908, when he became an inspector for the association covering southwest Washington with headquarters at Chehalis. In 1913 he was made chief fire warden for the state association with offices in Seattle and remained there until 1925 when Governor Roland H. Hartley appointed him to the office of state supervisor of forestry, which position he held for eight years. Since the close of his successful work for the state he has been district supervisor of forest fire work in Cowlitz, Pacific and Wahkiakum counties and also state inspector of southwest Washington CCC camps.
On July 3, 1901, he married Edith Elsie White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus F. White, pioneers who came to Lewis county in 1853. He is survived by his wife and five children who are Fay Alexander Joy and George Counts Joy, Jr of Ceres; Mrs. Mary Edith Fay of Centralia; Genevieve Louise Joy of Los Angeles, and Elizabeth Joy of Chehalis. One brother, Benjamin E. Joy, lives at Oak Point, Wash., and there are also five grandchildren surviving.
Funeral services at the First Methodist church Saturday afternoon were attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors of the family, and officials, lumbermen and men of the forest fire service with whom he had been closely associated.
The service was conducted by Rev. G.R.E. McNay of Seattle and Rev. Owen J. Beadles of the local church. Honorary pallbearers were V.O. Wallace, C.S. Cowan, O. Bystrom, William Entwistle, Fred Fernin, C.A. Jones, Frank Wedekin and C.S. Chapman. Active pallbearers were H.H. Hurst, Frank Manning, C. Roundtree, Ted Goodyear of Olympia, L. Rayton and G. Roundtree.
Interment was in the historic Claquato cemetery under the direction of the Boone mortuary.
OBITUARY: 9 July, 1935 - The Lewis County Advocate, Chehalis, Washington
DEATH CALLS GEORGE C. JOY
Prominent Lewis County Resident, State Forester for Eight Years, Died Sat. After Short Illness
George C. Joy, aged 65, a resident of Lewis county for 60 years and state forester for eight years under Gov. Roland H. Hartley, died in a Chehalis hospital Thursday, July 4, following an illness of two weeks. He had been in ill health the past two years but had been active in his work until recently.
Mr. Joy was born February 7, 1870, at Albion, Mendocino, Cal., the seventh child in a family of ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hodgson Joy, who came to California in 1851. The family moved to Washington territory in 1878 and settled on Boistfort prairie in Lewis county. Mr. Joy attended the rural schools at Boistfort until he was 18, when he attended the Olympia Collegiate Institute. He was a life-long member of the Methodist church.
In 1901 Mr. Joy entered the employment of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company and remained with them until the organization of Washington State Forest Fire association in 1908, when he became an inspector for the association covering southwest Washington with headquarters at Chehalis. In 1913 he was made chief fire warden for the state association with offices in Seattle and remained there until 1925 when Governor Roland H. Hartley appointed him to the office of state supervisor of forestry, which position he held for eight years. Since the close of his successful work for the state he has been district supervisor of forest fire work in Cowlitz, Pacific and Wahkiakum counties and also state inspector of southwest Washington CCC camps.
On July 3, 1901, he married Edith Elsie White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus F. White, pioneers who came to Lewis county in 1853. He is survived by his wife and five children who are Fay Alexander Joy and George Counts Joy, Jr of Ceres; Mrs. Mary Edith Fay of Centralia; Genevieve Louise Joy of Los Angeles, and Elizabeth Joy of Chehalis. One brother, Benjamin E. Joy, lives at Oak Point, Wash., and there are also five grandchildren surviving.
Funeral services at the First Methodist church Saturday afternoon were attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors of the family, and officials, lumbermen and men of the forest fire service with whom he had been closely associated.
The service was conducted by Rev. G.R.E. McNay of Seattle and Rev. Owen J. Beadles of the local church. Honorary pallbearers were V.O. Wallace, C.S. Cowan, O. Bystrom, William Entwistle, Fred Fernin, C.A. Jones, Frank Wedekin and C.S. Chapman. Active pallbearers were H.H. Hurst, Frank Manning, C. Roundtree, Ted Goodyear of Olympia, L. Rayton and G. Roundtree.
Interment was in the historic Claquato cemetery under the direction of the Boone mortuary.
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