Joy Beatrice Tuttle, 80, passed away at the home of her daughter in Acra on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. She was the daughter of Albert and Beatrice Eppenbach, born April 9, 1940 in Margaretville. She grew up on the family Al-Bee Farm in New Kingston, which doubled as an active dairy farm and a B&B. Joy lived on farms her entire life which allowed her to show her great love for animals.
Her “pets” included dairy and beef cows, donkeys, pigs, goats, sheep, pigeons, rabbits, chickens, geese, ducks, numerous cats and dogs, and her greatest love, horses. Joy was also an avid quilter making numerous quilts and wall hangings.
Shortly after her graduation from Andes Central School, she married Lauren Truesdell and moved to a small farm in Gladstone Hollow in Andes. She later married Harold “Spick” Tuttle and lived on his dairy farm down on the Tremperskill Road, adding horses to the mix; after Spicks passing, friending Gerald Ford and maintaining the horse farm. And she was very happy to have her final landing the past seven years on her daughter’s family farm in Acra with beef cows, chickens, horses, and her pet donkey, Spike.
She is survived by daughters Joy (Nate) Curto, Margaretville, Anne (Randy) Mudge, Acra, and son Steven (Doreen) Truesdell, East Greenbush, and cousin Ronald (Diane) Guichard of Andes. Grandchildren Louis (Liz), Christopher Curto, Nikolas (Teresa), Domenika, Antonya, and Peter Truesdell, Gregory (Casey), Zachary and Mckayla Mudge; three great-grandchildren Anastasia Truesdell, Wylie and Bowen Mudge.
Her ashes will be spread on the Acra farm and a celebration of her life will be held in the Spring.
