Joyce Holt Bowers

Joyce had worked as a housekeeper at Laughlin Healthcare.

She attended House of the Lord while her health permitted.

She loved reading, sewing with her mother, yard sales and watching soap operas daily. She loved her family and enjoyed being sassy.

Survivors include her daughters and son-in-law: Marsha (Ed) Peters, Vickie Bowers Fox and Jennifer (Joey Massey) Jones; grandchildren: Brandon Jones, Maryam Jeddy and Shanna (Robby) Sharp; four great grandchildren; brother: Jim (Betty) Holt; sisters: Gayle Holt and Cookie Seaton; sister-in-law: Connie Holt; a very special aunt: Ruth Morrison; special niece and nephew: Bo Holt and Michelle Fillers, whom she loved like her own; and several nieces and nephews.

Joyce was preceded in death by her husband: James “Hotshot” Bowers; daughter: Kimberly Dawn Bowers; parents: Edgar and Mildred Holt; brothers: Edgar Holt, Jr. and Mike Holt; a very special son-in-law: Dee Jones; son-in-law: Adil Jeddy; and brother-in-law: Bill Seaton.

The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 4 – 6 pm at Kiser-Rose Hill Funeral Home.

The funeral service will follow at 6 pm in the chapel of the funeral home with Rev. Sam Smith, Rev. Lynn Mercer and Rev. Randall Tipton officiating.

A graveside service will be held on Thursday at 1 pm in GreeneLawn Memory Gardens. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 12 noon to go in procession to the cemetery.

Pallbearers will be her nephews.

Honorary pallbearers are Robby and Hank Sharp and Joey Massey.

The family wishes to give a special thanks to Amedisys Hospice, her nurses who were wonderful and Hannah Kirk. She made her home with and was cared for by her daughter and grandson: Jennifer Jones and Brandon Jones and also by her late son-in-law: Dee Jones.