Alumni of the Year 2010
“A Christian, wife, mother, missionary, and finally a housewife.” These words best describe Joy (’43). She wrote these words in her book, A Missionary Wife and Her Work, and has spent her life living them out. Born to missionary parents, Joy spent several years at the Westervelt Home for Missionary Children in Columbia. Joy married Alfred Tuggy (’64) in 1946. They served as missionaries for fifty-four years with the Orinoco River Mission in eastern Venezuela. When they returned to the U.S. for retirement, they continued their mission work as Alfred wrote a variety of Greek/Spanish reference works. Together they raised nine children, all of whom love the Lord and attended CIU. They have twenty-seven grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. Alfred passed away in 2007 and Joy in 2019.
