Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Joyce Maund
If you venture into our Stop N’ Shop on a Thursday or a Sunday, you may notice our wonderful volunteer with pink hair! Several years ago, when our volunteer extraordinaire Joyce Maund first dyed her hair, someone told her she looked like Pink, and she has kept her hair pink ever since! About a year after Joyce ‘retired’ in 2013, she needed to get out of the house! She started coming to our popular Weight Watchers meetings at the Center. Shortly after that, she decided to start volunteering in our thrift shop. Joyce has worn every hat in the shop, from pricing, sorting, to also cashiering. If you don’t know something, just ask Joyce!
Joyce is a Washington native, spending her youth in Ellensburg and Cle Elum. She even lived in a lumber camp! After she made her way over the mountains to Seattle, she worked for the phone company (PNB) for about 6 years before she started her family and raised her 3 children. After about 11 years she went back to work for Time Oil Company. She worked there for 28 years as a Technical Research Assistant and then an Environmental Assistant. Joyce also worked in both of the West Seattle Curves facilities for almost 10 years.
Joyce has lived in her West Seattle home for 54 years, and currently enjoys sharing her home with her son and grandson. Joyce beams when she talks about her family. She has her 3 adult children, 7 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. She describes them all as a close knit family, “We all take care of each other, and have each other’s backs!” she says.
When I asked Joyce about her most memorable moment volunteering at the shop, the first one that came to mind was the customer that kept trying on shirts on top of shirts, on top of shirts! She kindly told him that he could keep the shirts, but that he needed to leave. She also mentioned the elderly gentleman that used to come in and tell her dirty jokes! Joyce has a great way with people — she’s run into a few odd balls, but she does not have a problem with showing them the door, and kindly asking these ‘memorable’ folks to leave! It’s all part of the life in retail. According to Joyce the best part of volunteering is the friends she has made, she has met a lot of people working in the shop. Joyce says, “Coming here to volunteer is my pick-me-up!”
