Joy Rain Gibson, 53, Westphalia, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, at Coffey County Hospital in Burlington.
Joy was born June 14, 1958, in Garden City, the daughter of James Albert and Shirley Sue (Culver) Young.
On May 9, 1974, she married Larry Gibson and they made their home in Arkansas for 20 years before moving to Westphalia in 1992.
Joy worked several years as a dietary cook for Coffey Health Systems. She enjoyed making jewelry, reading and playing computer games.
Her husband, Larry, survives, as do four sons, Mickey and his wife, Andrea, Tommy and his wife, Brandi, James and his significant other, Julie, and Steven and his significant other, Jessica, all of Westphalia; her mother, Shirley Young, Porterville, Calif.; a brother, Charlie Young, Topeka; six sisters, Violet Saienni, Chanute, Chris Wallace, St. Joseph, Mo., Margaret Pike, Westville, Okla., Tammy Lawson, Miami, Okla., Shirley Kiziah, Ozawkie, and Kay Collins, Gas; and 16 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father and a brother, James Young.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Burial will follow at Westphalia Cemetery. memorials to the Joy Gibson Memorial Fund may be sent to the funeral home, which is in charge of the arrangements.
Online condolences may be sent to www.iolafuneral.com.
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