Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List matron, Milton's Siding

Joined the FANYs in World War 2

Richard Reeder (son) She had a healthy upbringing on her parents' farms, one at Dundori, on the Eastern Great Rift Valley wall at 8,500 ft above sea level and the other in the Great Rift Valley at Milton’s Siding, Solai (named after her father, and still the Post Office address).
1932 Trainee Matron, Nakuru Primary School (the “newly” built school on the slopes of Menengai Hill near the Solai Road). Then posted to Nairobi Primary School.
1934 posted as Assistant Matron to Kitale Primary School
1936 posted as Matron to Nairobi Primary School
1938 joined the FANY’s under Lady Sydney Farrar at the latter’s farm at Mau Summit, 9,000 ft above sea level. Lectured by old Kenya Regiment personnel. 
This FANY’s group was called up as a whole at the outbreak of war in 1939. As an Ensign (2nd Lieutenant) her first task was to guard the interned German women at Mau Summit until the women were returned to Germany in November 1939. Joan was then assigned to staff car driving in Nairobi for East African Headquarters; then transferred to the Nairobi to Nanyuki army mail run; promoted to Captain in Dec 1942 on posting to Addis Ababa in charge of 5 other FANY’s running the clerical operations for British Military HQ Addis Ababa.
She resigned her commission in 1943 when pregnant and returned to her parents' farms in Kenya.Then she followed her husband as he was posted firstly back to England and then to Athens, Greece. She returned to farming in Kenya in 1949 when her husband resigned his commission with the British Army after serving 23 years.With her brother she took over the farms from her parents in the 1950s. She raised her family and farmed very successfully in Dundori and Solai, Kenya with her husband, her brother and sister-in-law.
1963 Dundori farms sold under the resettlement scheme.