Joy has been working in the St. Hedwig Parish Office since September 2017. She first began as the part time receptionist and is now the Parish Office Coordinator. It brings her great happiness to serve parishioners in their many needs and work with the Parish Team on the many activities that make St. Hedwig Catholic Church a special place of faith.
Joy was born and grew up in Baguio City, Philippines. She went to Catholic school from kindergarden to high school at Holy Family. She graduated from St. Paul College in Quezon City with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. She enjoyed being a lector at Mass in school and joined several school club activities. She loved playing tennis and softball in high school and college.
Her professional career for 25 years was in medical billing and collections. It was during this time that she was performing triple duty: working from home, running the household and attending to the three sons’ activities.
Joy has four brothers and she is the only girl. God had prepared her as now she has three sons, Matthew, Laurence, and Jacob. All are working on either their academic or professional careers. Her husband, Jose, a manufacturing engineer is now retired from the defense and aerospace industry. Jose, leads the St. Hedwig, St. Vincent de Paul Conference.