1915 - 2012 (96 years)
Has 44 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Joyce Grace STENBERG |
| Birth |
19 Dec 1915 |
Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand  [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
16 Feb 2012 |
Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand [4, 5] |
| Person ID |
I748 |
NZ Genealogy Project | SPURDLE Descendant, WALLACE Descendant |
| Last Modified |
28 Oct 2012 |
| Father |
Ira Frederick STENBERG, b. 03 May 1891, Woodville, Tararua, New Zealand d. 01 Sep 1959, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Ruby May WALLACE, b. 30 Jul 1893, Wanganui, Wanganui, New Zealand d. 18 May 1981, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (Age 87 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Dec 1914 |
Wanganui, Wanganui, New Zealand [3, 6, 7, 8] |
| Family ID |
F191 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Robert Henderson LAMASON, b. 13 Nov 1914, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand d. 23 Apr 1945 (Age 30 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Jul 1941 |
New Zealand [3, 6, 9] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Patricia Rae LAMASON [Rae], b. 21 Jun 1943, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand d. 23 Dec 2012, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 69 years) |
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| Family ID |
F423 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2024 |
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| Notes |
OBITUARY.Joy STENBURG was educated at Brooklyn School and Wellington Girls' College, joining the YWCA Cricket Club in 1933. Her Wellington debut came two years later against the touring English team and over the next five seasons, she was in the side that won four successive Hallyburton-Johnston Shield titles as national provincial champions.
In 1936/37, Joy switched to the (Wellington) College Old Girls' Club and began her career as an administrator. Known for her hard work off the field, she was elected secretary of the Wellington Women's Cricket Association in 1939. When women's cricket resumed after WWII, Joy took 7-9 off 16 overs in a club game along with heading the Wellington batting averages in 1945/46.
In 1948, Joy produced her greatest match performance taking 6-44 from 22 overs against Canterbury at the Basin Reserve, then making 122 in 220 minutes, her only representative century.
Joy's Test debut came against Australia at the Basin in March 1948, when she made the second to top score in both innings. Her best ever figures for Wellington came in 1952/53, when she took an astonishing 7-3 from eight overs against Otago in Dunedin with her medium-fast swing deliveries.
Joy toured with the first New Zealand team to England in 1954, together with her sister-in-law Ina who was vice-captain (in 1989 her sister-in-law Ina was awarded the MBE for services to hockey and cricket). Joy took 4-51 in the first Test at Headingley, Leeds. Her dogged innings in the second Test at Worcester, helped save the New Zealanders from defeat. Joy played her final international in Auckland on New Year's Day 1958, a non-Test match against the touring English team.
In 1956 Joy had been elected Chairwoman of the New Zealand Women's Cricket Council, a position she held until 1970. She returned to England with the second New Zealand team in 1966 as the assistant manager, chief selector and unofficial coach.
The Wellington Women's Cricket Association WWCA awarded Joy Life Membership in 1965 and in 1970 she received the same honour from New Zealand Women's Cricket Association NZWCC. She was made a Life Member of New Zealand Cricket, when the NZWCC merged with the men in 1991. As a Life Member of the WWCA, she became a Vice President of Cricket Wellington in 1988.
The current Cricket Wellington Premier Women's cricket competition is played annually for the Joy Lamason One Day Trophy.
At the time of her death on 16 February at the age of 96, Joy was believed to be the oldest living women's Test cricketer.
Source: Find A Grave, findagrave.com
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