Beatrice Joy Hinkle

Visitation will be Monday, July 2, at the Crawford Bowers Chapel, 1615 S Fort Hood St, Killeen, TX 76542, from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Funeral services will follow at 12:30 p.m. with burial at The Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery.

Joy was a loving Mother and a very supportive military wife moving home & children to different military bases in the US & Germany. She retired as the accounting supervisor from the Ft Hood Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) after 20 years of service.

Beatrice Joy (Cullum) Hinkle was born 29 August 1927, in Portsmouth, Ohio, to George and Merle (Sibrel) Cullum. Joy was raised in Huntington, West Virginia where she graduated from East High School and worked at the Owens Illinois Glass Plant during WWII. While still a teenager in Huntington, she met the love of her life Billie R Hinkle. After Bill returned from World War II in November 1945, they married on 20 Dec of that year for a long loving life together.

Joy relocated the family several times between Huntington, Ft Knox, KY, Ft Hood, TX, Mannheim, Germany, Camden, AR and Augsburg, Germany. In 1965 Joy made her final move settling in Killeen, TX. Joy's passion in life was her family and travelling. She will be remembered for her kindness, generosity, and her love of animals.

Joy is preceded in death by her forever love Bill, her parents, brothers George Richard and James Bruce Cullum and son-in-law Ron Powers. Joy is survived by her daughter Teresa J (Hinkle) Williams of Columbus, Ohio, son Billie R Hinkle Jr of Harker Heights, Texas, son Bruce R Hinkle and his wife Ann Curry of Pasadena, Texas, daughter Shari M (Hinkle) Leonard and her husband Robert A Leonard of LaPorte, Texas, sister Phyllis J. Haye of Rutland, Ohio and numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be sent in her name to The Harker Heights Pet Adoption Center at 403 Indian Trail, 76548 Harker Heights, Texas.