Loretta Schmidt Joy, 96, died Saturday, October 31, at her home in Temple. A memorial service is scheduled November 28, 2015 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Hays, Kansas.

Loretta was born May 25, 1919 to Paul and Catherine Schmidt in Catherine, KS and grew up in Hays and on a farm north of Hays. She graduated from Girls Catholic High School, Hays, KS in 1936.

On September 5, 1938 she married Derrell Joy. She and Derrell raised their three sons on a farm north of Hays and lived there for 62 years.

In 2000 she and her husband moved to The Temple Meridian, in Temple, TX. In 2013, Loretta and her husband celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. She was a member of St Joseph Catholic Church in Hays, KS and St. Luke Catholic Church in Temple.

She is preceded in death by an infant son, Derrell Joseph, her husband, Derrell, her parents, Paul and Catherine, five brothers Edwin, Lexus, Vincent, Cyril, Jerome, and two sisters, Lydia and Cecilia.

Survivors include two brothers, Marion and Donald, and two sisters, Helen and Mary; three sons, Ronald and wife Janet of Arlington Heights, IL, Donald and wife Linda of Austin, Stephen and wife Jo of Temple, eight grandchildren Tracy, Mark, Michael, Lisa, Debbie, Lesli, Todd, and Ashley, and 16 great grandchildren.
Loretta was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She loved cooking and sewing. Into her nineties, she baked the family's bread from freshly ground wheat grown on their farm.

Daughters-in-law have fond memories of helping in her kitchen baking cinnamon rolls, cutting egg noodles, and trying to learn how to make homemade chocolates. Grandchildren all knew that visits from Grandma Joy included coffee cans full of their favorite cookies. Each of her children and grandchildren have quilts she sewed for them. Loretta also loved to play bridge and pinochle, and she was a beautiful dancer.

Memorials can be made to a charity of choice.