Joan Hubbard
My wife Joan has always impressed me with her gentleness, her kindness, and her love for her fellow human being.
Joan is involved in so many things to help make the world a better place that I can’t begin to list them all. When our girls were little she was a Girl Scout leader, a classroom mother, and always volunteered to be a sponsor or chaperone on field trips, school dances, and such. She was the mother all of our daughters’ friends came to when they needed a non-judgmental adult to talk to.
Now that our girls have grown and married, Joan has found new ways to give of herself. She teaches illiterate adults to read, she works with a program to train service dogs for handicapped people, and she teaches a free cooking class for young women with no kitchen skills.
Joan has a great love of books and reading. She volunteers at a nursing home, reading to the patients who can no long read themselves. She also collects books from local yard sales, buying them for a dime or a quarter each, and when she has a couple of boxes of them, then takes them to the V.A. hospital to donate to the patients.
Besides all of this, I have witnessed Joan do so many small acts of kindness over the years. She always holds doors for people, she takes the time to say hello and talk to waitresses and other service people she comes into contact with, to make their day just a little brighter.
When she is driving and comes upon someone walking or on a bicycle, she slows down and moves way over to give them plenty of room. I have seen her pull the car to the side of the road to rescue a turtle or a puppy who otherwise might have been hit by a passing car.
The world would be a much better place if it had more people like Joan in it.
Submitted by Paul Hubbard
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