JOYCE, Clothilde G. -1940

JOYCE, FLOURNOY, GAGE

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 7/31/2002 at 20:47:24

The Clinton Herald Thursday July 11, 1940 Mrs. Clothilde G. Joyce, native of Clinton and for many years a prominent resident of this city, died at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Chicago where she had made her home most of the time in recent years. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Joyce family home, 1818 North Third street, where the body will repose after noon Saturday. The Rev. F.G. Williams, pastor of Grace Episcopal church will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland cemetery. Mrs. Joyce was the wife of the late W.T. Joyce, prominent Clinton lumberman, whom she married in 1884 and the mother of James Stanley Joyce, Chicago,and the late David Gage Joyce. She also was the sister of Mrs. R.C.A. Flournoy and grandmother of Beatrice Clothilde Joyce, daughter of James Stanley Joyce. Mrs. Joyce was the daughter of James P. and Helen Julia Buck Gage, who moved to the old town of Lyons from Jackson county in 1858 after having moved to the United States from Canada in 1854. Her father was one of the founders and first president of the First National bank of Lyons and in 1873 established what then was known as the Farmers and Merchants National bank.