DECATUR — Funeral service for Joyce Maples, 71, of Decatur, will be Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 1 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Sean Demar officiating. Burial will be in Somerville Church of God Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Miss Maples died Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Decatur Morgan Hospital. She was born January 29, 1947, in Morgan County to Melvin and Alma Allen Maples.
Joyce graduated from Priceville High School, Florence State Teachers College and UAB. She was a retired elementary school teacher after spending 33 years teaching students. She taught at Flint School for 23 years and West Decatur for 10 years. Joyce loved all of her students and their parents.
She was an avid Alabama Crimson Tide fan and a Bunco enthusiast. Friends and family knew never to interrupt an Alabama football game and she never missed a game. She enjoyed traveling with her sister. They made it to all 50 U.S. States and have the rocks from each state to prove it. She loved decorating for Christmas and had travel trees with ornaments from all the places she and Janice traveled, though her favorite tree was of course, the Alabama football tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Roy Maples; one niece, Connie Maples; and one nephew, Larry Gargis.
Joyce was a member of Sixth Avenue Church of God.
Survivors include twin sister, Janice Maples; three brothers, Bobby Maples (Lillie), Charles Maples (Cheryl) and Ferrell Maples; nephew, Rocky (Lillie); nieces, Tonya and Kerra (Jim); and grandnieces, Blakley, MaKenzie, Lexie and Braelinn.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Joyce’s longtime Bunco families: Betty Howell, Mary Lou Boyle, Kathryn Landers, Susan Emmons, Bonita Montgomery, Debbie Worber, Debbie Allen, Marcio Bridgeford, Arline Henderson, Sherrie Henderson, Carolyn Stanford, Olga Morris, Pam Bogle, Susan Harpe, Helen Hill, Van Hoskins, Doris Ridgeway, Joyce Terry, Judy Simms and Donna Beams.
Miss Maples died Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Decatur Morgan Hospital. She was born January 29, 1947, in Morgan County to Melvin and Alma Allen Maples.
Joyce graduated from Priceville High School, Florence State Teachers College and UAB. She was a retired elementary school teacher after spending 33 years teaching students. She taught at Flint School for 23 years and West Decatur for 10 years. Joyce loved all of her students and their parents.
She was an avid Alabama Crimson Tide fan and a Bunco enthusiast. Friends and family knew never to interrupt an Alabama football game and she never missed a game. She enjoyed traveling with her sister. They made it to all 50 U.S. States and have the rocks from each state to prove it. She loved decorating for Christmas and had travel trees with ornaments from all the places she and Janice traveled, though her favorite tree was of course, the Alabama football tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Roy Maples; one niece, Connie Maples; and one nephew, Larry Gargis.
Joyce was a member of Sixth Avenue Church of God.
Survivors include twin sister, Janice Maples; three brothers, Bobby Maples (Lillie), Charles Maples (Cheryl) and Ferrell Maples; nephew, Rocky (Lillie); nieces, Tonya and Kerra (Jim); and grandnieces, Blakley, MaKenzie, Lexie and Braelinn.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Joyce’s longtime Bunco families: Betty Howell, Mary Lou Boyle, Kathryn Landers, Susan Emmons, Bonita Montgomery, Debbie Worber, Debbie Allen, Marcio Bridgeford, Arline Henderson, Sherrie Henderson, Carolyn Stanford, Olga Morris, Pam Bogle, Susan Harpe, Helen Hill, Van Hoskins, Doris Ridgeway, Joyce Terry, Judy Simms and Donna Beams.
DECATUR — Funeral service for Joyce Maples, 71, of Decatur, will be Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 1 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Sean Demar officiating. Burial will be in Somerville Church of God Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Miss Maples died Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Decatur Morgan Hospital. She was born January 29, 1947, in Morgan County to Melvin and Alma Allen Maples.
Joyce graduated from Priceville High School, Florence State Teachers College and UAB. She was a retired elementary school teacher after spending 33 years teaching students. She taught at Flint School for 23 years and West Decatur for 10 years. Joyce loved all of her students and their parents.
She was an avid Alabama Crimson Tide fan and a Bunco enthusiast. Friends and family knew never to interrupt an Alabama football game and she never missed a game. She enjoyed traveling with her sister. They made it to all 50 U.S. States and have the rocks from each state to prove it. She loved decorating for Christmas and had travel trees with ornaments from all the places she and Janice traveled, though her favorite tree was of course, the Alabama football tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Roy Maples; one niece, Connie Maples; and one nephew, Larry Gargis.
Joyce was a member of Sixth Avenue Church of God.
Survivors include twin sister, Janice Maples; three brothers, Bobby Maples (Lillie), Charles Maples (Cheryl) and Ferrell Maples; nephew, Rocky (Lillie); nieces, Tonya and Kerra (Jim); and grandnieces, Blakley, MaKenzie, Lexie and Braelinn.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Joyce’s longtime Bunco families: Betty Howell, Mary Lou Boyle, Kathryn Landers, Susan Emmons, Bonita Montgomery, Debbie Worber, Debbie Allen, Marcio Bridgeford, Arline Henderson, Sherrie Henderson, Carolyn Stanford, Olga Morris, Pam Bogle, Susan Harpe, Helen Hill, Van Hoskins, Doris Ridgeway, Joyce Terry, Judy Simms and Donna Beams.
Miss Maples died Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Decatur Morgan Hospital. She was born January 29, 1947, in Morgan County to Melvin and Alma Allen Maples.
Joyce graduated from Priceville High School, Florence State Teachers College and UAB. She was a retired elementary school teacher after spending 33 years teaching students. She taught at Flint School for 23 years and West Decatur for 10 years. Joyce loved all of her students and their parents.
She was an avid Alabama Crimson Tide fan and a Bunco enthusiast. Friends and family knew never to interrupt an Alabama football game and she never missed a game. She enjoyed traveling with her sister. They made it to all 50 U.S. States and have the rocks from each state to prove it. She loved decorating for Christmas and had travel trees with ornaments from all the places she and Janice traveled, though her favorite tree was of course, the Alabama football tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Roy Maples; one niece, Connie Maples; and one nephew, Larry Gargis.
Joyce was a member of Sixth Avenue Church of God.
Survivors include twin sister, Janice Maples; three brothers, Bobby Maples (Lillie), Charles Maples (Cheryl) and Ferrell Maples; nephew, Rocky (Lillie); nieces, Tonya and Kerra (Jim); and grandnieces, Blakley, MaKenzie, Lexie and Braelinn.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Joyce’s longtime Bunco families: Betty Howell, Mary Lou Boyle, Kathryn Landers, Susan Emmons, Bonita Montgomery, Debbie Worber, Debbie Allen, Marcio Bridgeford, Arline Henderson, Sherrie Henderson, Carolyn Stanford, Olga Morris, Pam Bogle, Susan Harpe, Helen Hill, Van Hoskins, Doris Ridgeway, Joyce Terry, Judy Simms and Donna Beams.
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