We are sad beyond words to learn of the death of Joy Wiebe. She was a beautiful vibrant soul who brought cheer to the lives of many a trucker on the Dalton Highway. Jack considered her a good friend, not just a fellow trucker. Many an afternoon or evening was whiled away on the road in conversation about this or that, always a positive experience with Joy who improved the mood of each day and situation she was in. Full of energy, always wanting to be a better person, the world lost an asset the day she died.
I was able to meet Joy in Coldfoot about 2 months ago. I liked her immediately. Her smile and attitude were kind and open. She was a humble person, small of stature but strong and able and energetic. She touched my life for only a couple of minutes yet I find myself crying for a person I barely knew. Why Joy had to go and why her family has to now be overcome by grief and the question of how they can go on, we’ll never know. We can only feel deep sadness and pain at a world without her.
Jack and I send our deepest sympathies to the family of Joy Wiebe. We cannot imagine their grief. We want them to know that this trucker, as well as so many others, thought the world of Joy. She was a shining beam of light on a dark night, on the Haul Road. She was a Joy.
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