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Vance, Joyce Frances Talcott (1920-2000)

VANCE, TALCOTT, PAYNE, BAKER, TAYLOR, PEED, BRIGHTON, WICKS, MCCOLLOUGH, CHRISTIANSEN

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 1/29/2023 at 14:51:12

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Friday, December 22, 2000

Joyce Vance, 80, Mesa, Az., a former Webster City resident, died Sunday, Dec. 17, 2000 at the Neely Ray Hospice House in Gilbert Az. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, at the First Congregational Church, with Revs. Jim Buffington and John Herman officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral Home from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday and after 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the church.

Joyce Frances Talcott, daughter of Frank and Maude Payne Talcott, was born June 7, 1920 at Devon, Iowa. The family moved to Dubuque, then to Webster City in 1933. She graduated from Lincoln High in Webster City in 1938 and attended Webster City Junior College. She graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls in 1942. She taught Kindergarten in Algona for a year. On June 19, 1943 she married William Vance at Winfield, Kansas where he was in pilot training. The couple resided in Oklahoma, Kansas and California. During his overseas tour, she returned to Webster City and taught first grade. She also operated a used consignment shop with a friend for several years. The couple resided in Webster City until 1983 when they moved to Mesa after her husband's retirement from Farmers National Bank.

She is survived by her husband Bill; sons and daughter-in-law, Mark T. Vance, Webster City; Craig and Julie Vance, Des Moines; daughters and sons-in-law, Margaret (Peggy) and Dean Baker, Scottsdale, Az.; Caroline and Thomas Taylor, Nevada, Mo.; grandchildren, Angela Peed, Dean Baker III, Brooke and Brandon Taylor, Lucas and Thomas (Jr.) Brighton; great-grandson, Brendon L.J. Peed; sisters Jean Wicks, Omak, Wa.; Lois McCollough, Chino, Ca.; Beth Christiansen, Portland, Or.; several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Richard Talcott.

She was a former member of the First Congregational Church in Webster City and a current member of the Desert Palm United Church of Christ in Tempe, Hamilton County Republican Women, Hamilton County Chapter of the American Cancer Society, League of Women Voters, Daughters of the American Colonists and P.E.O.

Memorials may be given to the Webster City Meals on Wheels or Banner Hospice, c/o Lutheran Hospitals Foundation, 2830 E. Brown, Suite 14, Mesa, Az. 85213.


 

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