Joyce was a homemaker who deeply loved her family, including many fur babies. A long-time resident of Wood County, she was a devoted Christian and known as someone always eager to help another in need. Joyce is survived by George Brown, her husband of 52 years, and sons, Scott (Rhonda) and Michael (Stacey), who she treasured. She is also survived by two brothers-in-law, Robert Brown and Roger Barker, as well as several cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews.
Joyce is preceded in death by her mother and father, Clara Casto Wilson and George Wilson, and Clara’s sister and brother-in-law, Opal Casto Bowman and Charles Bowman, who lovingly raised Joyce as their own from the age of two, when Clara and George passed. Also preceding her in death are sisters, Sharon Wilson and Janice Wilson Barker.
Services for Joyce will be at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Monday, December 31. Visitation will be at 10am, with the service at 11, officiated by Pastor Steve Gedon. Joyce will be laid to rest at Sunset Memory Gardens immediately thereafter.