BORN: June 13, 1941
DIED: September 8, 2017
LOCATION: Oak Grove, Louisiana
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Services for Joyce Christina Guess, age 76, of Oak Grove, LA will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, September 10, 2017 at Brown-Holley Funeral Chapel in Oak Grove, LA with Bro. Jimbo Herron officiating. Interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Oak Grove, LA under the direction of Brown-Holley Funeral Home in Oak Grove, LA.
Joyce was born on June 13, 1941 in Delhi, NY. She was raised by a strong woman who struggled to keep her 6 kids fed and clothed by herself which made her the strong woman she was. When she was a teen she went to work as a candy striper in the maturity ward of a hospital. She meet her husband when the carnival came to New York and shortly after that they made a life here in Louisiana. She said it was love at first sight because he would ask her where the juke box was and would call her mam. she was a strong christian woman who loved to talk and never met a stranger. More than anything she loved her grandchildren, great grandchildren and working in her yard. Spoiled her husband, daughter and them to an extreme. If you ever fished with a jig, it was mostly one she had made.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Lloyd and Louise Sanderson and grandson, Robert Christopher.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Robert W. Guess of Oak Grove, LA; daughter, Robin Guess Gates and husband, Cory of Oak Grove, LA; 3-grandchildren, Derek Wheelington and girlfriend, Sunni, Sydnie Gates and Emily Gates of Oak Grove, LA; 4-great grandchildren, Layton Christopher, Gabby Christopher, Aliya Colquette and Robbie Lane Wheelington; 5-siblings, Richard Sanderson, Lloyd Sanderson, Jr., Monte Schindler, Doris Carpenter, Bonnie Vanauken; sister-in-law, Francis Rickman; brothers-in-law, Mark Guess and Jim Murr; and a host of nieces and nephews and many great friends and neighbors.
Pallbearers will be Rick Neal, Danny Rainey, Beanie Moss, Jeanie Boyd, Derek Wheelington, and Coon Strong.
Visitation will be Saturday, September 9, 2017 from 4:30
BORN: June 13, 1941
DIED: September 8, 2017
LOCATION: Oak Grove, Louisiana
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Services for Joyce Christina Guess, age 76, of Oak Grove, LA will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, September 10, 2017 at Brown-Holley Funeral Chapel in Oak Grove, LA with Bro. Jimbo Herron officiating. Interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Oak Grove, LA under the direction of Brown-Holley Funeral Home in Oak Grove, LA.
Joyce was born on June 13, 1941 in Delhi, NY. She was raised by a strong woman who struggled to keep her 6 kids fed and clothed by herself which made her the strong woman she was. When she was a teen she went to work as a candy striper in the maturity ward of a hospital. She meet her husband when the carnival came to New York and shortly after that they made a life here in Louisiana. She said it was love at first sight because he would ask her where the juke box was and would call her mam. she was a strong christian woman who loved to talk and never met a stranger. More than anything she loved her grandchildren, great grandchildren and working in her yard. Spoiled her husband, daughter and them to an extreme. If you ever fished with a jig, it was mostly one she had made.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Lloyd and Louise Sanderson and grandson, Robert Christopher.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Robert W. Guess of Oak Grove, LA; daughter, Robin Guess Gates and husband, Cory of Oak Grove, LA; 3-grandchildren, Derek Wheelington and girlfriend, Sunni, Sydnie Gates and Emily Gates of Oak Grove, LA; 4-great grandchildren, Layton Christopher, Gabby Christopher, Aliya Colquette and Robbie Lane Wheelington; 5-siblings, Richard Sanderson, Lloyd Sanderson, Jr., Monte Schindler, Doris Carpenter, Bonnie Vanauken; sister-in-law, Francis Rickman; brothers-in-law, Mark Guess and Jim Murr; and a host of nieces and nephews and many great friends and neighbors.
Pallbearers will be Rick Neal, Danny Rainey, Beanie Moss, Jeanie Boyd, Derek Wheelington, and Coon Strong.
Visitation will be Saturday, September 9, 2017 from 4:30
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