Photo By: Lindsay KeeferA higher calling
Joyce Wurdinger will leave her jobs as a bus driver for the Gervais School District and youth coordinator at Sacred Heart Catholic Church to become a nun on Nov. 1. Wurdinger, a former U.S. Marine, is joining the Servants of the Lord, located in Santa Clara, Calif.
Joyce Wurdinger always knew she was meant to be a nun. When her father mentioned she should join the religious life at a young age, Wurdinger dismissed the thought and, upon graduating from Gervais High School in 1998, she went the opposite direction: she enlisted in the Marines.