| M.H. "Bob" Joy
BAIRD - M.H. "Bob" Joy, 81, died Friday in an Abilene
hospital.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today in Baird First Baptist Church with
the Rev. Jack Willoughby officiating. Burial will be in Admiral Cemetery,
directed by Parker Funeral Home.
Mr. Joy was born in Cottonwood and married Louise Davis in 1936 in
Abilene. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and worked as the
Callahan County tax-assessor collector in the late 1940s. He moved to
Baird in 1958 from Admiral and was employed as a department head by Texas
Mental Health-Mental Retardation. He was a longtime summer league baseball
coach in Baird and was a member of First Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, of Baird; three sons, Bob M. Joy of
Cresson, and Terry E. Joy and Eric N. Joy, both of Baird; two sisters,
Katherine Winchester of Cisco and Bobbie Nell Brown of Pioneer; one
brother, R.F. Joy Jr. of Cross Plains; six grandchildren; six
great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, Texas, Feb
2, 1997 |
