Eulogy

Nancy Marilyn Joy was born March 8, 1932 in

Des Moines
Iowa
to Max and Esther Joy.
  While growing up
on

36^th street,
she attended Rice Elementary and Callanan Junior High.
  During her childhood,

Nancy enjoyed raising various pets and
retained this appreciation for animals all her life.

At

North

High School she
participated in several plays.
  During
this time

Nancy
worked at a local restaurant.
  After
graduation she attended the

University
of
Wisconsin majoring in
Journalism.
  Following her first year of
college she went to work for Iowa Drug.

In 1951 by the providence of God, a storm in
Chicago put Nancy the college student on the same train as
Bert, a soldier returning home from duty in

New Jersey.
 
The two met in the dining car where Bert bought her a sandwich.
  By the end of the long ride to
Des Moines,

Nancy
knew she was bringing someone home to meet her parents.

During the courtship
Nancy
received Christ and was later baptized at

Union
Park.
  She married Bert Borg, the love of her life,
on September 18, 1953.
  They were the
second couple married at

Union

Park
Baptist

Church.
 

After 6 months of marriage Bert and Nancy moved into their
house at 3013
Madison in

Des Moines.
 
In this home she raised her 4 children; Susan, Jeff, Linda, and
Scott.
 

After raising her family
Nancy
worked as a nurse’s aid at

Northwest

Hospital, at the Iowa
PTA, and with the Iowa Baptist Conference office.
  She also worked at Montgomery Wards,
Younkers, and Kohls.

She was active in church as Deaconess, Choir Member, Wee
Care Board Member, Sunday School Teacher, and Mission Committee Member along
with many other areas of service.

In her retirement,

Nancy
was an election official at her precinct.
 
She also volunteered at

Woodlawn

Elementary school
listening to the second grade students read.
 
In addition

Nancy
regularly enjoyed rocking the babies at Wee Care.
  At

Methodist

Hospital she volunteered
in the Intensive Care area.

Around the house

Nancy
loved to read Christian fiction and work word puzzles.
  She was gifted in cross stitching and made
several cross stitches not only for her home but also for her children and
grandchildren.

Nancy served on 4 mission
trips with the church youth – traveling to
Tijuana
and

Matamoros,
Mexico.
  She also enjoyed cooking for training sessions
at Adventures In Missions where many young people prepared to serve the Lord
around the world as short term missionaries.

As an extension of her love for the Lord, much of

Nancy’s devotion in life
was directed at her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
  She and Bert enjoyed many wonderful years
traveling in their motor home to visit the family.
  These travels took the two of them all around
the

United States
multiple times.
  While the children all
looked forward to these visits from Nancy and Bert, almost equally anticipated
was the arrival of

Nancy’s
famous sugar cookies.
 

Other indications of

Nancy’s
love for her family are the many photographs hanging on the walls in every room
of her home.
  To her last days she was
concerned with getting birthday cards to all in her family with October
birthdays.
  She made the comment many
times that she was disappointed to miss watching her grand kids and great grand
kids grow up, graduate, and marry.
  She
dearly loved her family.

Nancy
was preceded in death by her parents and brother Ralph Joy.
  She is survived by her husband of 53 years,
Bert;
  her children, Susan and Dan
Hawbaker of Littleton Colorado, Jeff and Janet Borg of Newberg Oregon, Linda
and Shawn Shannon of Des Moines Iowa, and Scott and Marcia Borg of Gainesville
Georgia;
 

Grandchildren

• Marc
  and Kara Hawbaker
• Carrie
  and Brian Aoyagi
• James
  and Jessica Hawbaker
• Jake
  Shannon
• Sam
  and Jill
   Borg
• Anna
  and Elliot Swint
• Josiah
  Borg
• Tyler
  Borg
• Jobe
  Shannon

• Logan Borg

• Serena
  Borg
• Anders
  Borg
• Mikaela
  Borg

Great grand children

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Elijah, Haylee, and Nathan Hawbaker

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Emma, Tyson, Blake, and Talon Aoyogi

Nancy Marilyn Borg was a woman who
loved her God, her husband Bert, and her large family.
  Her life was a living testimony to the depth,
breadth, and width of this love.
  She has
left a legacy of love to three generations.
 
She was an amazing wife, mother, and grandmother.
  While her family and friends will miss her
dearly, all are joyously praising God that she is free from pain and enjoying
the presence of her Savior forever.