MODEL, MOM AND WIFE, JOY STEPHENS DIES.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Joy and Dawson Stephens met at a church dance when he was 16 and she was 13. He went off to fight in World War II, came home, and they married. They were looking forward to celebrating their 60th anniversary this month. But Joy died just before the date. ``Thirteen days short of 60,'' Dawson said. ``Three days after Christmas she was gone.'' Joy, who suffered from congenital congenital /con·gen·i·tal/ (kon-jen´i-t'l) existing at, and usually before, birth; referring to conditions that are present at birth, regardless of their causation. con·gen·i·tal adj. 1. heart failure, died peacefully in her sleep Dec. 28 at their Lancaster home. She was buried six days later at Joshua Memorial Park in Lancaster. The couple met May 17, 1941, at a church dance in Salt Lake City. Dawson joined the Marine Corps and spent two years fighting on islands in the South and Central Pacific with the 3rd Marine Division. After the war ended, he returned to Salt Lake City on Dec. 21, 1945, proposed to Joy the next day, gave her a ring on Christmas and they married two weeks later on Jan. 10, 1946. Dawson also served during the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. and is presently chaplain of the Marine Corps League in Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . Joy worked as a model in fashion shows and was a fitness instructor fitness instructor fit n → Fitnesstrainer(in) m(f) for years with the Jack LaLanne Jack LaLanne (b. François Henri LaLanne, September 26, 1914) is an American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, celebrity, lecturer, and motivational speaker. LaLanne has been referred to as "the godfather of fitness. health spas. After the Korean War they moved to California, lived two years in North Hollywood and 34 years in Panorama City. They moved into a home in Lancaster on May 17, 1988, exactly 47 years after they met. The Dawsons had four children: daughters Deanna Fletcher of Texas, Kathy Cosgrove of Utah, and Sandy Shepherd of Arkansas, and son Dennis of Oxnard. There are 11 grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. and seven great-grandchildren. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) The couple at a Marine Corps League Ball in November 2005. |
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