Ann K. Joyner Services for Ann Karen Taylor Joyner will be held November 30, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. at Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, with Reverends Gilbert Prince, Wayne Hemmingway, W.D. Pigott and Paul Knight officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in Charge of arrangements. Mrs. Joyner, was born July 6, 1936 in Aurora, Nebraska. She died November 28,2009 after a courageous fight with cancer. Ann served in the United States Air Force before marrying and raising a family with her husband who was also in the USAF. They lived in Texas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., Germany, and Alabama before moving back to Mississippi. She was a graduate of Yankton High school and Neely Business College. She used her skills as a treasurer of her church and as an Avon representative for many years. Many children learned about Jesus in Ann's Sunday school classes, and attended camp because of her devotion to youth. Ann liked indoor and outdoor flowers, crafts, and sewing of all kinds, kitchen antiques, fishing, swimming, reading, shopping, and computers. Most of all, she loved God and her Family. Ann was the devoted wife of 51 years to James Kenneth Joyner and a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and sister-in-law. Survivors include her husband, James Kenneth Joyner, her son, Richard K. and his wife Peggy Joyner, Daughters, Lynn and her husband Jeff Anderson, Denise and her husband John Tucker, ten grandchildren and one great grandchild, brother, Richard and his wife Angela Taylor, of Columbia Falls, Montana, Sisters, Louise and her husband Bud Kyarsgaard, of Monmouth, Iowa, Kay Sinkler, of Yankton, South Dakota, and Dana and her husband Ned Brunick, of Yankton, South Dakota, Sister-in-laws, Peggy Stevens, Virginia Morgan, Betty Joyner, and Mary Etta Miller, Brother-in-laws, Ed Morgan, and Earl Miller, and many nieces and nephews who knew her as Aunt Ann or DeeDee. She was preceded in death by her parents Laurence R. and Annabelle Taylor, of Yankton, South Dakota, and her daughter Karen Lee Joyner. In lieu of flower and gifts the family request donations be made to Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church building fund. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren, Jake, and Lori Joyner, Elizabeth, Will and Dan Anderson; Sarah and Josh Grabmiller; Kris, Elijah, Alex, and Abbey Tucker, and her great grandson, Seth King. Visitation will be Sunday 5:30-8:00 p.m. and at Pleasant Grove United Methodist church thirty minutes prior to the service.
