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Joyce LaVerne Hockin was born Joyce LaVerne Warren, in Nanton Alberta in 1926. She attended elementary school in Wetaskiwin and Ponoka, Alberta, and high school in Ponoka. She took a secretarial course at Alberta College in 1945 in Edmonton. Her parents were Earl Warren (b. 1884, Lebanon, Indiana), and Marie Gorrison Gottig (b. April or May 1893, Kansas City, Missouri); they were married in Whitefish, Montana, or Pendleton, Oregon, November 23, 1912. Joyce married Wilbur Alexander Hockin (b. May 29, 1923 - d. 1994), and they divorced in March 1959. Joyce worked in a variety of federal government departments, including Veterans' Affairs and the Department of Transportation, in Alberta and the Yukon, between March 1945 and January 1948. Joyce and her family moved from Whitehorse/Watson Lake, Yukon, to Langley in 1953, arriving April 1. They moved to 7226 Telegraph Trail. Joyce worked as a bookkeeper at Langley Hospital for a time, for the municipality of Langley for a time as well, and for McDonald Cedar in Fort Langley in 1961. She later worked for R.A. Payne, Insurance, in Langley City, and by the time of her retirement, she was working in upper management for a large Vancouver based insurance company. In 1987 she married Milton Ainsley (Bob) Brown (b. Feb. 24, 1922 - d. Oct. 13, 1987), on August 14. Joyce died March 2, 2014, in Surrey; she is buried in Fort Langley Cemetery. With first husband Wilbur, Joyce had Earl Wilbur Hockin (Dec. 30, 1945-), born in Edmonton; Heather Charlotte Hockin (March 27, 1948-), born in Whitehorse; Gerald (Jerry) Douglas Bruce Hockin (Oct. 23, 1950-), born in Whitehorse; and Thomas Ward MacNaughton Hockin (Nov. 17, 1951), born in Ponoka, Alberta.