Background
Stedge-Fowler, Joyce was born on March 2, 1926 in Spring Valley, New York, United States. Daughter of Sidney and Lila Mae (Joyce) Kearsing.
Stedge-Fowler, Joyce was born on March 2, 1926 in Spring Valley, New York, United States. Daughter of Sidney and Lila Mae (Joyce) Kearsing.
Bachelor in Liberal Arts, University Iowa, 1947. Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1973.
Elementary teacher Ramapo I School District, Suffern, New York, 1966-1968, Ramapo II School District, Spring Valley, 1968-1969. Pastor Rochester Reformed Church, Accord, New York, 1973-1976. National Institute of Mental Health clinical pastoral intern in mental health St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, 1976-1977, clinical pastoral resident in supervision and consultation, 1977-1979.
Pastor-at-large New Castle Presbytery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1979-1982. Interim pastor Cooperative Parish St. George's, Port Penn, Delaware City, Pencader Presbyterian churches, 1980. Interim pastor 1st and Olivet Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, 1980, Hanover Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, 1981, Ocean City (Maryland) Presbyterian Church, 1982.
Pastor Christ Presbyterian Church, Martinsville, New Jersey, 1982-1985. Minister to elderly United Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, 1985-1991. Retired, 1991
Chaplain Robert Wood Johnson Health Care Center, Plainfield, 1985-1991.
Consultant, clinical pastoral educator and therapist, 1975-1995. Member task force on abortion National Council Churches, 1970-1973, member Commission on Women in Ministry, 1973-1980, member women's ecumenical coordinating group, 1973-1979. Member justice for women committee Elizabeth Presbytery, since 1982, member social issues committee, 1986-1991, moderator, 1991-1992, member general council, 1990-1991, member personnel committee, 1991-1995.
Delegate to General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (United States of America), 1985, 91.
Former leader Rockland County council Girl Scouts United States of America. Former treasurer, finance chairman, board directors League of Women Voters. Committee member Water, Sewer and Foreign Policy Rockland County Study, 1955-1973.
Former program chairman Women's Association, former adult education chairman Spring Valley Reformed Church. Former member council and education chairman Central Rockland Ecumenical Witness, Spring Valley. Board directors Somerset Chaplaincy to Elderly, 1985-1991, Somerset Chaplaincy to Ex-Offenders, 1982-1986, National Alliance On Mental Illness-Familya, since 1999.
Married Leland Stedge, September 4, 1948 (divorced April 1978). Children: Leland Junior, Deborah Stedge-Stroud, David, Donald, Claudia, Douglas. Married Joseph Charles Fowler, June 23, 1985.