JOYCE W. CHERRY
July 14, 1953-Dec. 31, 2015
Joyce Whitfield Cherry, 62, Garner’s Chapel community near Mount Olive, died Thursday night, Dec. 31, 2015, at Memorial Hospital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A farmer’s daughter and wife, she had been employed at Jan-Mark and Young Squire sewing factories and in the cafeteria, both at North Duplin School and Mount Olive College. She also had been a school bus driver, and had assisted in the operation of the family farm.
She was a member of Garner’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church.
Joyce, daughter of the late James E. and Callie Mae Vernon Whitfield, is survived by her husband, Kenneth Lee Cherry; three daughters, Michelle Cherry Edwards and husband, George, of Dudley, Donna Cherry of Mount Olive and Kaye Cherry Harris and husband, Matt, of Cliffside, N.C.; three grandchildren, Faith and Andrew Harris and Michael Wayne Edwards; and two sisters, Ann Whitfield of Mount Olive and Grace Whitfield Carter and husband, Rob, of Bahama.
Services will be Sunday, Jan. 3, at 3 p.m. at Tyndall Funeral Home, officiated by the Rev. Paul Rose and the Rev. Dennis Guy, with burial following in Whitfield Family Cemetery on the family farm.
Visitation will be at the funeral home in the hour before the service.
Memorial gifts may be made to Oak Wolfe Fire Dept., c/o Jack Alphin, 519 Bethel Church Road, Mount Olive, 28365.
A Tyndall service.
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Published in Obituaries on January 3, 2016 9:34 AM