Joy Haws Hulme

1927 - 2015

Joy Haws Hulme
Aug. 4, 1927 - Mar. 10, 2015
Longtime Saratoga Resident
Joy Haws Hulme died peacefully of age-related causes on March 10, 2015. She was attended by her family and is survived by eight children: Diana (Joel) Peterson, Jonathan (Sherri) Hulme, Richard (Toni) Hulme, Kristine (Steve) Grimaud, Mary Lynne (Andrew Krcik) Hulme, Teresa (Alison) Hulme-Barrett, Carma (Wallace) Glausi, Jennifer (Patrick) Kearon. She is also survived by 41 grandchildren and 52 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Dr. Russell LeRoy Hulme, grandson Sean Kearon, great-grandson Zion Strong and great-granddaughter Amelia Harris.
Born in Blackfoot, Idaho on the 4th of August, 1927, Joy was the only child of Earl Hansen and Edna Findlay Haws. She grew up surrounded by two large and loving extended families in southeastern Idaho, later moving to San Diego, California, where her parents, several aunts, uncles and cousins had relocated. In San Diego, Joy developed interests and talents in knitting and needlework, piano and opera, and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. She later attended Brigham Young University.
Joy and Russell were married on June 6, 1949 in the Manti Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Russell completed his medical school training at the University of Utah and moved to San Francisco, California, to complete his residency at Stanford University Medical School. After a few years in San Jose, they settled their family in Saratoga, California, where they served their church and community. All eight of their children graduated from Saratoga High School and Brigham Young University.
Joy was an exceptional teacher and communicator who shared her passions with peers, students, children and grandchildren alike. She taught constantly: at Sunday School and Relief Society for more than 50 years; literature, history and heritage clubs; knitting, crocheting and sewing; and on every family outing, teaching her children the history, people, flowers, birds and other facts of the places they visited.
Joy was both a giver and receiver of the power and richness that comes from a life immersed in music and the arts. She began playing the piano at age 5, and was an accomplished pianist and accompanist in her youth. Of her husband's many talents and traits, she was especially enamored of his passion for music. With friends and family, they shared many nights at the opera and symphony at locations around the world, holding season tickets to the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Opera San Jose and San Jose Symphony for decades. And of course, Joy and Russell passed their love of music on to each of their eight children, who in turn have passed that passion forward to their children and grandchildren.
Another of Joy's pastimes was knitting and needlework. In addition to finishing the detail of her own wedding dress, she knitted and finished hundreds of sweaters, blankets, pullovers, socks, scarves, vests, ponchos, hats, mittens and other articles. Her life was thus "binded off" by beautiful music and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that the hearts of her family and friends "might be comforted, being knit together in love…" Colossians 2:2.
A celebration of Joy's life will be held Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the Saratoga Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 19100 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga, CA 95070; viewing beginning at 11:00 am, funeral service at 12:30 pm.
Note: For over 40 years Joy served as a member, then lecture series director and president, of the San Jose Opera Guild. Because of Joy's passion for Bay Area opera, her family requests in lieu of flowers, donations be made in her name to the San Jose Opera Guild, P.O. Box 33025, Los Gatos, CA 95031.