Joyce Marie Hayes Nordan

Mrs. Joyce Marie Hayes Nordan of Blytheville died Friday, March 13, 2015. She was loved and surrounded by her family at her home at Westminster Village of the Mid-South.

She was born in Clarendon to the late Randall Hayes and Jenny V. Breeding Hayes. She was the granddaughter of the late Jim and Hattie Breeding and Clem and Louisa Hayes.

Joyce was a caring and devoted RN, wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend who will be beyond missed. She was a seventh generation Arkansan and a faithful Arkansas Razorback fan. She graduated from St.Vincent Infirmary School of Nursing in Little Rock and received her BSN from the University of Arkansas. Joyce began her career at Mercy Hospital in Brinkley, and then moved and went on to work in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. She helped open and was the director of nursing at Medi-Home Nursing Care for several years and then worked for the state of Tennessee at Sequoyah Children's Unit and UT William F. Bowld Hospital in Memphis before retiring in 1996.

Joyce and her husband, Earl, moved to Westminster Village in Blytheville in 2001. They both loved "the Village" and soon became volunteers in the Village Library and with several other activities.

She was preceded in death by her husband and her son, Jim.

Mrs. Nordan leaves her daughters, Leslie (Cliff) Acred of Southhaven, Mississippi, and Robin Marie Still of Huntsville, Alabama;

One son, Randall Hayes Wheeler of Memphis; and

One brother, Donald Ray (Jetta) Hayes of Clarendon.

Joyce made the decision to donate her body to the Genesis Gift of Life Program with the Medical Education and Research Institute of Memphis. The family will have a private memorial service in Clarendon.

The family requests memorials be made to Westminster Village Library Fund at Westminster Village of the Mid-South, 5215 Southside Drive, Blytheville, AR 72315, or to the Memphis Chapter of The Compassionate Friends, P.O. Box 38653, Germantown, TN 38183.

The family would like to thank her caregiver, Sterling Guess, Dr. Kirby Smith, John Powell, CNP, the staff of Unity Hospice, Dr. Chimere Ashley, Dr. Gina Bray and the staff of Westminster Village.