Funeral Service for Joyce L. Bower, 90, Neligh, Nebraska formerly of Lincoln, Nebraska, will be at 10:00 am on Friday, January 5, 2024 at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home, 6800 South 14th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. Memorials to families choice.
Mrs. Bower passed away on Saturday, December 30, 2023 at home surrounded by loving family.
She was a caregiver at her core-selfless and kind and she loved all her family fiercely. She beamed when she talked about her children, grandchildren and her great grandchildren. They were all her pride and joy. She loved spending time with them playing cards and board games, assembling puzzles, watching her favorite TV games shows, telling jokes as she had a great sense of humor, she enjoyed reading novels everyday, and loved to crochet and embroider handmade gifts for her great grandchildren. Her unending love for her family was a gift to us all.
Joyce Bower was born July 19, 1933 in East Moline, Illinois, the daughter of Albert and Madeline "Sally" Dumolien Viscioni. She married James M Bower on February 5, 1954. He passed away April 17, 2010. She grew up in a large family of seven siblings with their father and grandparents as her mother died in a car/train accident when Joyce was eight years old.
Joyce met the love of her life, James Bower, when she was 18. They married in 1954 and later moved their young family to Nebraska in 1961.
Survivors include her daughters: Linda and Jerry Zoucha of Raleigh, NE; Diane Bower of Neligh, NE; Judy and Dennis Sasek of Lincoln, NE; Sons: Jim and Vicki Bower of Waverly, NE; Joe and Jody Bower of Chadron, NE John and Jackie Bower of Lincoln, NE; Roger Bower of LIncoln, NE; special friends Joan Miller & Russell Fowler and CJ & Jess Miller of Omaha, NE; 17 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband; great grandsons Devin and Daxton and siblings, Laura "Dolly"; Mary Ann; Frances "Frannie"; Albert "Sonny"; Elizabeth "Betty"; Rose and Phillip "Little Louie".
