Joyce Freeman 1927-2002

FREEMAN SHOOP MCNUTT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/9/2009 at 21:22:06

Sioux City Journal
5 March 2002

WHITING, Iowa -- Joyce Freeman, 75, of Whiting died Sunday, March 3, 2002, at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting.

Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at First Congregational Church of Whiting, with the Revs. Reva B. Karstens, Earl Potts and Selva Lehman officiating. Burial will be at a later date. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Selva Lehman officiating, all at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, Iowa.

Joyce was born Feb. 22, 1927, in Mapleton, Iowa, the daughter of Athol and Inez (Shoop) McNutt. She graduated from Castana (Iowa) Consolidated School in 1945, and attended Iowa State University. She graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City. She taught school in the Monona County area before going to Chicago to work for an insurance company.

She married Mort Freeman on Aug. 13, 1950, in Alpena, S.D. She and Mort lived in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska, where he was a drug representative for Pfizer, before moving to Whiting in 1958 to open Freeman Pharmacy. Joyce became a real estate broker and had a firm in Sloan, Iowa, until Mort passed away Jan. 9, 1987, in Onawa.

She was active in and belonged to Habitat for Humanity, Wilderness Society, South Poverty Law Center, United Church of Christ local and state, Republican Party local and state, and Heifer Project International. She was instrumental in the development of Pleasant View Care Center and served as president of the board until resigning due to ill health. She was a member of the Ministerial board of the United Church of Christ and served as guest minister at several churches throughout Iowa.

On Sept. 4, 2001, her name was placed on the Wall of Tolerance by Rosa Parks. Also in September 2001, her name was placed on the Founders Wall of the Ronald Reagan Republican Center by the Republican President Task Force.

Joyce's passions included gourmet cooking, designing and tailoring her wardrobe, traveling and her beautiful flower garden.

She was a 40-year survivor of breast cancer and will be remembered for her love of her fellow man, the Lord and her beautiful soul.

She is survived by two daughters, Barb Metzger and her husband, Rollie of Whiting, and Lou Ellen Freeman of Nevada, Iowa; a niece, Resa Wiltse; three nephews, Reed Plate, John Graham and Jim Graham; and many friends whose lives she touched.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Phyllis Graham and her husband, Bill; and two nephews, Dexter Dingus and Ross Plate.

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