Joyce Garner
Posted: January 20, 2017
COLUMBUS — Joyce Garner, 63, died Jan. 12, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center-Tupelo. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul MB Church with the Rev. Otis Garner officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation is from 3-8 p.m. today at Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus. Mrs. Garner was born Jan. 25, 1953, to the late Willie Joseph Garner and Venus Dean Garner. She was employed with Columbus Christian Academy. She was a member of Jesus Christ Mortality Ministry. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, David Garner. She is survived by her children, Daphne Garner and April Garner, both of Columbus; siblings, Gwendolyn Sutton and Loretta McCoy, both of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Willie Garner of Columbus, Willadean Brooks of Abilene, Texas, Anita Walker of Sipsey, Alabama, and Valerie Garner of Starkville; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.