Joye M. Daley

Joye graduated Provincetown High School in 1960. She married Paul D. Daley in June of 1962 and became a mother the next year. Motherhood meant den mother to Cub & Boy Scouts, Troop Leader to Brownie and Girl Scouts. Making all the outfits, sewing, knitting, crocheting what she couldn’t find at thrift stores. Joye instilled in all 4 children a deep love of nature and the world through her gardening, walking, walking and more walking, intense love of nature, need to be near the ocean, and deep love of animals. She went on the field trips, and new more bird names than the science teacher, gave you the whole history at the back of the tour group at that plantation and recommended Stanley Kunitz when your class was just starting Robert Frost. Joye shuttled the kids to Orisa and later Rock Night, and to whatever sport they decided to try, sat through every torturous concert and play. And always there were books and music. From Bach to AC/DC, from Agatha Christie to Tom Kane, the music was loud, the books devoured, both constant and always encouraged.

But there was so much more. Besides being the woman behind the Ptown DPW Director and Truro School Committee Chairman, Joye worked as the Wellfleet Fire Dispatcher, helped run Seashore Well drilling, worked at Adams Pharmacy, ran J&J Ice Cream in Ptown, and front desk at Outer Reach Resort. But she finally answered her true calling after her husband died in ’89 when she went to work for the VNA of Cape Cod. She spent the next 18 years caring for people up and down the Cape – many in hospice until a back injury and increasing health challenges forced her to retire. At that point she moved to CT to be closer to her daughter Shannan and proudly bought her first home completely on her own. She spent the next decade fixing it just right so she could read books all the books, grow all the flowers and blast all the music she and her beloved dachshund Maggie wanted to listen to. Eventually health issues forced her to begrudgingly give up her home and she move in with Shannan, granddaughter Cassandra and great grandson Cameron. There she introduced another generation to the importance of walking, birds, puzzles, old stuff and Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Joye was predeceased by her husband Paul D. Daley, her son Paul John Daley, and her son Kevin C. Daley as well as her siblings, the late Robert Morris, Hollis Morris, Letitia Watson, Linnell Nickerson and Collin Morris.

She is survived by her sister Rebecca Whiting of Orleans, MA, daughter-in-law Janet H. Daley of Orleans, MA, daughters Kathleen J. Sheehan of Pocasset, MA, and Shannan M. Daley of New London, CT; grandchildren Alana J. Collins of Orleans, MA and husband Jared, Paul R. Daley of Harwich, MA, John R. Daley of Harwich, MA and wife Sydney, Cassandra L. Daley of New London, CT, Daniel P. Sheehan of Pocasset, MA, Kelsey E. Sheehan of Pocasset, MA; great grandsons Leland Daley of Warwick, RI and Cameron Rankin of New London, CT, many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held at Nickerson Funeral Home in Wellfleet, MA on Sunday August 28th from 5-7 pm. A funeral service will be held Monday August 29th at 10:00 am at the Christian Union Church in North Truro, MA followed by burial at Snows Cemetery.

Donations in her memory can be made to the Mastocystosis Society at www.TMSforacure.org. For online condolences, please visit www.nickersonfunerals.com.