BANKSTON Evelyn Joyce Cole, known as Joyce, of Bankston, Ala., passed away from pancreatic cancer on the 6th day of July, 2012, at age 79.
Joyce was born in 1932 in Bankston, Alabama to Alfred and Afrey Atkins. She was the third of three children. After graduating high school she attended nursing school at Carraway Methodist Hospital in Birmingham and enjoyed a long career as a registered nurse, obtaining the position of Emergency Room Supervisor at Bedford County Hospital in Shelbyville, Tennessee: a job that suited her razor sharp wits and decisive but compassionate nature.
She was an avid craftswoman, excelling at crochet and as a seamstress. The craft she enjoyed most was quilting. She was a member of American Quilters Society, and her quilts and wallhangings are valued keepsakes as well as beautiful, award-winning works of art. She was a longstanding member of the congregation of the Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston, Alabama.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Karen and Don Durham of Marrietta, Georgia, and Susan Cole and K.N. King of Atlanta, Georgia; as well as her nephew and family, Dwight and Gail Smith; sister-in-law, Beatrice Atkins and family; and niece, MariLee Self and family. Her brother, Dueward Atkins, and sister, Jessie Ann Smith, have already found their heavenly home.
Visitation will be held at Nelson Funeral Home Chapel in Fayette from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. July 10, 2012. Services will follow at New Liberty Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston at 2 p.m. with Bro. Darren Pollard officiating and Nelson Funeral Home of Fayette directing. The body will lie in state from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.
Pallbearers will be Mike Tomlin, Jackie Dozier, Eugene Aldridge, Ray Selman, Don Durham, and Kim King, with Dwight Smith serving as honorary pallbearer.
Published in Tuscaloosa News on July 9, 2012 .
Joyce was born in 1932 in Bankston, Alabama to Alfred and Afrey Atkins. She was the third of three children. After graduating high school she attended nursing school at Carraway Methodist Hospital in Birmingham and enjoyed a long career as a registered nurse, obtaining the position of Emergency Room Supervisor at Bedford County Hospital in Shelbyville, Tennessee: a job that suited her razor sharp wits and decisive but compassionate nature.
She was an avid craftswoman, excelling at crochet and as a seamstress. The craft she enjoyed most was quilting. She was a member of American Quilters Society, and her quilts and wallhangings are valued keepsakes as well as beautiful, award-winning works of art. She was a longstanding member of the congregation of the Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston, Alabama.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Karen and Don Durham of Marrietta, Georgia, and Susan Cole and K.N. King of Atlanta, Georgia; as well as her nephew and family, Dwight and Gail Smith; sister-in-law, Beatrice Atkins and family; and niece, MariLee Self and family. Her brother, Dueward Atkins, and sister, Jessie Ann Smith, have already found their heavenly home.
Visitation will be held at Nelson Funeral Home Chapel in Fayette from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. July 10, 2012. Services will follow at New Liberty Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston at 2 p.m. with Bro. Darren Pollard officiating and Nelson Funeral Home of Fayette directing. The body will lie in state from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.
Pallbearers will be Mike Tomlin, Jackie Dozier, Eugene Aldridge, Ray Selman, Don Durham, and Kim King, with Dwight Smith serving as honorary pallbearer.
Published in Tuscaloosa News on July 9, 2012 .
BANKSTON Evelyn Joyce Cole, known as Joyce, of Bankston, Ala., passed away from pancreatic cancer on the 6th day of July, 2012, at age 79.
Joyce was born in 1932 in Bankston, Alabama to Alfred and Afrey Atkins. She was the third of three children. After graduating high school she attended nursing school at Carraway Methodist Hospital in Birmingham and enjoyed a long career as a registered nurse, obtaining the position of Emergency Room Supervisor at Bedford County Hospital in Shelbyville, Tennessee: a job that suited her razor sharp wits and decisive but compassionate nature.
She was an avid craftswoman, excelling at crochet and as a seamstress. The craft she enjoyed most was quilting. She was a member of American Quilters Society, and her quilts and wallhangings are valued keepsakes as well as beautiful, award-winning works of art. She was a longstanding member of the congregation of the Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston, Alabama.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Karen and Don Durham of Marrietta, Georgia, and Susan Cole and K.N. King of Atlanta, Georgia; as well as her nephew and family, Dwight and Gail Smith; sister-in-law, Beatrice Atkins and family; and niece, MariLee Self and family. Her brother, Dueward Atkins, and sister, Jessie Ann Smith, have already found their heavenly home.
Visitation will be held at Nelson Funeral Home Chapel in Fayette from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. July 10, 2012. Services will follow at New Liberty Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston at 2 p.m. with Bro. Darren Pollard officiating and Nelson Funeral Home of Fayette directing. The body will lie in state from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.
Pallbearers will be Mike Tomlin, Jackie Dozier, Eugene Aldridge, Ray Selman, Don Durham, and Kim King, with Dwight Smith serving as honorary pallbearer.
Published in Tuscaloosa News on July 9, 2012 .
Joyce was born in 1932 in Bankston, Alabama to Alfred and Afrey Atkins. She was the third of three children. After graduating high school she attended nursing school at Carraway Methodist Hospital in Birmingham and enjoyed a long career as a registered nurse, obtaining the position of Emergency Room Supervisor at Bedford County Hospital in Shelbyville, Tennessee: a job that suited her razor sharp wits and decisive but compassionate nature.
She was an avid craftswoman, excelling at crochet and as a seamstress. The craft she enjoyed most was quilting. She was a member of American Quilters Society, and her quilts and wallhangings are valued keepsakes as well as beautiful, award-winning works of art. She was a longstanding member of the congregation of the Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston, Alabama.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Karen and Don Durham of Marrietta, Georgia, and Susan Cole and K.N. King of Atlanta, Georgia; as well as her nephew and family, Dwight and Gail Smith; sister-in-law, Beatrice Atkins and family; and niece, MariLee Self and family. Her brother, Dueward Atkins, and sister, Jessie Ann Smith, have already found their heavenly home.
Visitation will be held at Nelson Funeral Home Chapel in Fayette from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. July 10, 2012. Services will follow at New Liberty Free Will Baptist Church in Bankston at 2 p.m. with Bro. Darren Pollard officiating and Nelson Funeral Home of Fayette directing. The body will lie in state from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.
Pallbearers will be Mike Tomlin, Jackie Dozier, Eugene Aldridge, Ray Selman, Don Durham, and Kim King, with Dwight Smith serving as honorary pallbearer.
Published in Tuscaloosa News on July 9, 2012 .
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