Joyce O'Day

SLINGERLANDS - Joyce Severson O’Day of Slingerlands died Tuesday, October 6, 2026. She was 86 years old.

She was born in Albany, NY, graduated from Voorheesville High School and attended the evening division of Albany Business College and Sage College.

Joy worked as a buyer for Whitney’s Department Store in Albany, Montgomery Wards Personnel Office, and worked in Data Processing for the United Papermakers and Paperworkers International Headquarters located in Menands, N.Y. for 13 years. She then worked for the Federal Highway Administration for 21 years, first in Delmar and then in the Leo W. O’Brien Federal Building in Albany. She volunteered at the Watervliet Arsenal in the Retired Services organization and was Recording Secretary. She was a member of the New Scotland Historical Society and worked in their museum.

Joy was a World Traveler and loved all of Europe. She also traveled coast to coast in the USA and Hawaii. She also loved gardening, biking and church work. Joy was a longtime member of the Methodist Church in Voorheesville. Later in life, she was a member of the First Assembly of God on Krumkill Road.

Mrs. O’Day is the widow of Col. E. A. O’Day and she is also predeceased by her son Terence Scott Sellnow, formerly of Green Island, N.Y. She is survived by her sister, Dorothy Kimball of W. Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

Mrs. O’Day will be laid to rest next to her husband Col. E.A. O’Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

In lieu of flowers, please send contributions in Joy’s memory to the Mohawk Hudson Humaine Society, www.mohawkhumane.org or to the First Assembly of God, 477 Krumkill Rd. Albany, NY 12203.