Born Dec. 13, 1916, in Malden, son of the late Andrew Emanuel and Nora Elizabeth Masters Joyce, he was a farmer and member of Pleasant View General Baptist Church in Risco.
On Aug. 21, 1939, he married Novella Daphne Killbreath who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Joyce Joyce of Risco; one daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Jim Tabor of Sardis, Miss.; one brother, Jackie Joyce of Lilbourn; three sisters, Lillian Gammon of Battle Creek, Mich., Lina Franks of Peach Orchard and Oliva Scarbrough of Muskegon, Mich.; and two granddaughters, three great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation begins at 6 p.m. today at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden, where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Vernon Self will officiate.
Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery at Malden.
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