- Ancestry.com. Maine, Birth Records, 1621-1922
Name: Joyce Helen Rand
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1915
Birth Place: Sherman
Registration Place: Sherman, Aroostook
Father: Everett L Rand
Mother: Phyllis E
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Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Joyce Rand Hall [Joyce R Hall] [Joyce Rand Rand]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1915
Birth Place: Sherman Mills, Maine [Sherman Mill]
Death Date: 30 Aug 1995
Father: Everett L Rand
Mother: Phyllis E Whitehouse
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Jun 1968: Name listed as JOYCE RAND HALL; 16 Sep 1995: Name listed as JOYCE R HALL
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- JOYCE HALL FARM WIFE, NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
Joyce Hall, 80, a longtime farm wife and newspaper correspondent who enjoyed going for Sunday drives, died Wednesday at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston. She had lived since 1944 at 1146 Hallowell Road.
Mrs. Hall married Benjamin Alexander Hall of Durham in April 1938. They had a dairy farm in West Durham until fire destroyed it in the early 1940s. They lost everything they owned in the fire, said their son, Brian E. Hall of Freeport.
The Halls started over with another farm about two miles away at Methodist Corner in West Durham, where Mrs. Hall had lived ever since.
Mr. Hall developed an illness that did not allow him to be around dairy cows, so they gave up farming full time. They maintained a small garden farm operation into the 1980s, specializing in pumpkins and potatoes.
''She was the typical farmer's wife,'' her son said. ''Also a typical 1950s wife. She stayed home and she worked on the farm.''
Mrs. Hall was a correspondent for the Lisbon Enterprise weekly newspaper for many years when it was under the leadership of John Gould.
''She wrote about the Durham news and got paid by the line,'' her son said. ''People would call her, and at the time we had a four-party line, so she got plenty of information.''
In 1987, Mrs. Hall suffered a stroke which ended her ability to speak and reduced her mobility. Still, her mind remained alert and she continued to read four newspapers every day.
''They said she wouldn't be able to read,'' her son said. ''But she could, and she could communicate with us.''
Going for Sunday drives was a tradition Mrs. Hall and her late husband enjoyed all of their married lives. In recent years, each of her four sons took turns driving her through the countryside on Sundays.
''She knew the roads all over,'' her son said. ''When dad was alive, all they did was travel around Maine. It was her challenge to get us lost.''
Mrs. Hall also went on drives every Wednesday with her sister-in-law, Harriet Bowie of Yarmouth. She was active in the West Durham Ladies Aid Society.
Born at Sherman Mills, a daughter of Everett L. and Phyllis Whitehouse Rand, she lived at Sherman and spent some summers in Etna before her family moved to Auburn, where she graduated in 1934 from Edward Little High School.
Mr. Hall died in 1991, and a daughter, Patricia M., died at birth.
Also surviving are three other sons, Douglas A. of Otisfield, Dean B. of Lisbon Falls and Dana E. of Winthrop; two brothers, Roland of Lisbon and Glen Rand of Turner; and two sisters, Ruth Milliken of Branford, Conn., and Doris Smith of Lisbon; and six grandsons.
At Mrs. Hall's request, there will be no funeral. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Cedar Grove Cemetery. Family and friends may gather at the Hall residence after the burial. Arrangements are by Crosman Funeral Home, 40 Main St.
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1915 - 1995 (80 years)
