Robert Sidney Joyce

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He was attending Stanborough College, studying theology where he met Phyllis Hardinge, who was teaching at the Royal Academy in London. They married after he graduated.He was an minister or elder in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. For 12 years started congregations in Bristol, Norwich and London England. He became president of the South England and then the North England Conferences where he served for 12 years. He came to America and served in churches in Boulder Co. and Nebraska. He became president of the Nebraska Conference.

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Article on his wife, Phyllis Hardinge Joyce

Source: http://www.iamaonline.com/Bio/Phyllis_Joyce.htm

Robert Sidney Joyce, an Irishman who had been born in Belfast, met her while a student at SC. They became engaged and married in 1927. During the next seventeen years, he experienced considerable success as an evangelist and then became president of the South England Conference in 1935 and the North England Conference in 1939.

In 1947, the Joyces accepted an invitation to serve at the Boulder, Colorado, Seventh-day Adventist church in the Central Union in the U.S. Two years later, he became the pastor of the Union College church in Lincoln, Nebraska,

During their stay in Lincoln, he became president of the Nebraska Conference. They then returned to the Colorado Conference where he served as president, and then settled in the Lake Union, where he served as president of the Indiana Conference. A year following his death in 1969, she died as a result of an automobile accident in Loma Linda, California, at age 68



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Source: Review and Herald, May 8, 1969

Indiana Constituency Meets;
New President Is Elected

The Indiana Conference constituency
in session April 27 elected Robert L. Dale,
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as president
of the conference. Elder Dale, ministerial secretary of the
Oklahoma Conference, formerly served
in that capacity in Indiana. He replaces
Robert S. Joyce, who died April 10.

Robert married Phyllis Constance HARDINGE. Phyllis (daughter of Eustace Gilbert HARDINGE and Constance WILSON) was born 19 Dec 1901, Calcutta, India; died 06 Apr 1970, Loma LInda, San Bernadino Co. CA. [Group Sheet]