Joyce Thulin Holm, 89, Luverne, died Saturday, June 13, 2020.
A time of fellowship will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 10, at the Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne. A private family graveside service will be at Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne. To live stream the graveside service, go to www.facebook.com/DingmannFH.
Joyce Thulin was born Jan. 17, 1931, to Bert and Josephine (Nelson) Thulin in Litchfield. She graduated from Litchfield High School, earned her nursing degree in 1954 from the University of Minnesota and later went on to earn her master’s degree in public health, also from the University of Minnesota.
Joyce began her career as a nurse in Luverne in 1956 for Dr. Boone. She later worked as the school nurse for the Pipestone School District and then the Nobles-Rock County Public Health Nursing Service. She was an assistant professor of nursing at Brookings, South Dakota, then at Quincy, Illinois, and then at Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall. Joyce retired in 1993 after serving residents of southwest Minnesota working in Public Health Nursing and Services for Children with Handicaps with the Minnesota Department of Health.
Joyce and Charles (Cub) Holm were married on June 26, 1954, at the First Lutheran Church in Grove City. They moved to Luverne in 1956 after Cub’s discharge from the army and operated Holm Funeral Home. Upon retirement, Joyce and Cub moved to Green Lake in Spicer and then to Tucson, Arizona. Joyce returned to Luverne in 2016 following Cub’s move to the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne. Cub died in 2018.
Joyce was a member of the Luverne Chapter of Eastern Star, Moccasins and Flower Club, Luverne United Methodist Church, Rock County Historical Society, Minnesota Historical Society, and Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society of Nursing.
Joyce is survived by her three daughters, Jodyne Holm of Austin, Texas, Jill (Jim) Holmes of Cedar Rapid, Iowa, and Jennifer (Tom) Hey of Marshall; six grandchildren, Carina Miller, Charles Miller, Tom Holmes (Leah Eby), Peter Holmes, Sami Hey, and Sydney Hey; three great-grandchildren; her sister, Dena Waters of Minneapolis; her brother, Bob Thulin of Connecticut; and her nephews and nieces.
Arrangements are provided by Dingmann Funeral Home, Luverne, dingmannandsons.com.
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