Mary Joyce Dingler Watkins, 82, died on June 5, 2014, in Odessa, Texas. Services were held on Monday June 9, in the 2nd Baptist Church in Odessa.
She was born July 26, 1931, to Richard and Edna Dingler in Donley County. Joyce lived her early years in Donley County attending community schools and College. She married Bobby Watkins in 1952 in Amarillo. In 1954 they moved to Andrews then on to Odessa two years later to live the rest of her life.
Joyce worked many years for the Odessa school system, and also volunteered as a Pink Lady in the Odessa Hospital. Her love was her church, her children and grandchildren, and doing things for friends and neighbors. Joyce was loved by all.
She was preceded in death by her husband Booby, her parents, and a granddaughter.
She is survived by two daughters, eleven grandchildren, and six great grandchildren, and five sisters: Ruby Jewel Hardin, Frances Grimland, Jo Ellen Cowan, Glenna Ruth Cash, and Catherine Cosper.
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