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Phyllis "Joy" Neumann passed away peacefully October 15, 2021 surrounded by her family.

Joy Neumann was the middle child of Glenn and Marjorie Heinan Peabody, born August 26, 1928, in a log house just south of the Ekalaka Hills.

Joy was three years old when her mother died in 1932, leaving three small children, ages one, three and five. Their grandmother assisted in their care until she died in 1933. Her dad remarried in 1934, separating after four years, when Joy was nine years old. From that time, she and her siblings took care of themselves for the most part while their dad worked away from...