Joyce Elaine Endrizzi-Pope

Joyce will lie in state for visitation on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 from 5pm to 7pm at Griggs Schooler Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 Bell St in Amarillo. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 2pm in the funeral home’s Pioneer Chapel with Bobby Harris presiding. Burial will follow in Llano Cemetery. Should you not be able to attend the service, you may view it via our livestream at the link below; or by going to www.facebook.com/griggsschoolergordon.

Joyce was born in San Antonio, Texas to Morris and Minnie Mae (Mansfield) Witt. She grew up around the Hill Country in Center Point, Bandera and Uvalde. She graduated from Uvalde High School in 1947. Joyce also attended the school for the blind, where she learned skills like basket weaving, knitting, crocheting, and learned to make vinyl records. She loved needle point, crafts and knitting, she enjoyed the company of family and friends and loved a good game of Farkle.

In 1951, she married Joseph Endrizzi and they moved to Amarillo where they would raise their nine children. She was a homemaker, Den Mother for the Boy Scouts, a member of the Rosary Society and Secret Prayer Sisters, the Amarillo Indoor Sports Clubs; and the family was members of the Amarillo’s YWCA, where the family enjoyed evenings of swimming. She was a member of the Amarillo Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Joe & Joyce were married for 39 years, until he passed in December 1990. Joyce met her second husband, Jesse “Ray” Rayford Pope while attending the Jan Werner Adult Day Care Center. They were married in 2003 and remained married until he passed in May 2007. She was also preceded in death by her grandson Matthew Endrizzi of Iowa, and granddaughters Krystal Light and Elizabeth Kalert of Long Beach, CA.

She is survived by her children, Christopher and Debbie Endrizzi, Michael Endrizzi, Kenneth and Sarah Endrizzi, Elaine and John Vindedahl, Morris Endrizzi, Timothy Endrizzi, Patrick and Cecilia Endrizzi, Philip and Tanya Endrizzi and Theresa and Joe Farrar; 22 grandchildren; 38 great grandchildren and (5) great-great grandchildren; numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces, nephews and friends of all ages.

We want to give a special thank you to Joyce’s nurse, Jessica. She is a travelling nurse from Georgia that was staffed at BSA to help out with the shortage of staff. Jessica’s care was extraordinary, compassionate and full of love throughout Joyce’s care. From day one they cut-up, they laughed and loved each other through her final hour.

Due to current state and local ordinances, facial coverings (Masks) must be worn at all times while inside the funeral home. Seating is limited and the family will be seated with priority. Should you not want to or cannot wear a facial covering, you will be asked to return to your vehicle and watch the service via livestreaming. Once seating capacity has been reached, those who have not been seated will be asked to view the service via livestream as well.