HUMBLED – Joyce Boon and her granddaughter Aimee. Photo: Johanna Baker-Dowdell
WHEN Joyce Boon took on full-time care of granddaughter Aimee, she did it out of love.
That act has now been recognised with a national award.
Joyce, 73, was named Grandparent of the Year by Grandparents Day magazine after being nominated by three staff at Northern Suppor tSchool in Launceston, where Aimee is a student.
Humbly commenting that she was “just a normal little granny”, Joyce, of Newnham, said she was just doing what anyone else would in her situation.
“I became Aimee’s full-time carer three years ago but I’d always been involved [in her care>[/embedp>