Joyce E. Johnson

Friday, July 12, 2013

Mrs. Joyce E. Johnson, 82, of Blytheville, passed from this life Thursday, July 11, 2013, at Great River Medical Center.

She was born in Forrest City to Claude William and Ola Mae Perry Luallen. Mrs. Johnson retired from Chickasawba Hospital and had also worked at the Montgomery Ward Store in the catalog and credit department. She was a member of the Ruddle Road Church of God and enjoyed reading, cooking and playing with her grand and great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death on July 5, 2013, by her husband of 64 years, W.R. "Bill" Johnson.

Joyce is survived by her children, Jeanette Hart and husband, Randy, of Atlanta, David Johnson and wife, Sherry, of West Memphis, and Lynne Scott and fiancé, Cary Wells. of Jackson, Tenn.;

Nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren;

Two sisters, Claudine Young of Flowery Branch, Ga., and Priscilla Cowie of Owasso, Okla.,; and

A host of cousins, nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in Cobb Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Danny Pankey officiating. Burial will follow in Dogwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends from noon until service time. An online register may be signed at cobbfuneralhome.com