Joyce Yvonne Stanley

1936 - 2022

JOYCE YVONNE STANLEY

October 9, 1936 November 11, 2022

Joyce Yvonne Stanley, born on October 9, 1936, passed away in her Tehachapi, California home on November 11, 2022. She was surrounded by her family listening to them laugh and compete with Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.

Joyce was the sixth child born to Frank and Elizabeth Ursery, in Kennett, Missouri. She grew up and attended school in Deering, Missouri. She was active in her local 4-H Club. She learned to sew at the age of nine and won many ribbons at local fairs. She loved working outdoors with her brother Bill and father picking cotton on the family farm.

At the age of eighteen, she moved to Wasco, California where she graduated from Wasco High School as a proud Tiger, later attending every class reunion.

In 1955, she met her sweetheart, Don Stanley, through her brother, Bill. They were married three months later in Wasco, at her sister, Evelyn's home, on September 20, 1955.

In 1967, she traveled to Tripoli, Libya with her daughters to join Don who had signed on with Occidental Oil Company. They lived side-by-side in Villas with the McCallum Family for two and a half years.

Joyce loved traveling, deep-sea fishing, golfing, sewing, crocheting, playing board and card games, gardening, Nascar, LA Dodger games, and hummingbirds.

She is survived by her daughters, Donna (Matt), and ReNay; grandchildren, Ashley (Robby), Charlissa (John), Jacob (Dawn), and Whitney (Robert); great-grandchildren, Thomas, Abagail, Jayden, Bella, Jack, Millie, and Christopher. She is also survived by her brothers, Bill, and Donnie (Shirley); sisters, Jean, Lori (Lee), and Gale (Steve).

She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Wanda, Ellen, and Evelyn; sisters-in-law, Robbie, Betty, and Norma; brothers-in-law, Jay, Herman, and Norman; and her beloved husband, Don of fifty-four years.

A Memorial Service was held on December 3, 2022, at the LDS Church in Tehachapi. Interment took place on Monday, December 5, 2022, at the Bakersfield National Cemetery.

Wood Family Funeral Service, Inc. has been entrusted with her care. For condolences, please visit www.woodmortuary.net.

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