Joyce T. Hubbard

Joyce Tartarini grew up in Natick and upon graduation from Natick High School, and inspired by JFK’s message to “ask what you can do for your country,” she and her twin brother enlisted in the Navy. Training as a corp-WAVE (medic) she was stationed in Charleston, S.C. After marrying she became a military wife and found that the wives were treated almost as second-class citizens. While her husband was serving in Vietnam she would receive threatening phone calls in the middle of the night. He finished his military service in 1980, and the couple moved to Florida. Their son served in the Navy and their grandson served in Iraq.