Joyce Merle Keown, 87, died Tuesday, March 5, 2013, in Amarillo, Texas.
Services were held Friday, March 8, 2013, in the Robertson Funeral Directors Saints’ Roost Chapel in Clarendon with Rev. Anthony Knowles, officiating.
Interment followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Arrangements are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
Joyce was born January 28, 1926, in Bryan to Lonnie Perry and Mary Alice Dickson Fuqua. She married Robert Aubry Keown on August 3, 1950, in Strawn. She had been a resident of Clarendon since 1970. She loved going to her grandkids sporting events.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on July 18, 1988; 3 brothers, Clyde, Milton, and Ralph Fuqua; 2 sisters, Doris Fuqua Murphy and Leslie Fuqua.
She is survived by 2 sons, Russell Ray Keown and wife Helen of Clarendon and Rodney Kyle Keown of Pampa; a brother, Bobby Gene Fuqua of Jacksonville, TX; 2 sisters, Shirley Fuqua Coakley and Margaret Fuqua Miner both of Bryan; 5 grandchildren, Kasi Keown Davis and husband Kyle, Kelli Keown Shurbet and husband Shannon, Shanna Keown, Braden Keown, and Jennifer Parker Warren and husband Brad; 8 great grandchildren, Kendra, Kaitlyn, and Kortni Davis, Ky and Dru Anderson, Tate, Emmelise, and Ethan Warren.
The family request memorials be sent to the American Heart Association or Autism Awareness Walk.
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