Joyce Kay (Wood) Johnson
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Joyce Kay (Wood) Johnson, 81, of Green City, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Schuyler County Nursing Home in Queen City, Missouri.
Born February 5, 1944 in Kirksville, Missouri, Joyce was the daughter of the late Herbert A. and Mary Wilma (Rhoads) Wood. She was also preceded in death by one brother, Bobby Wood. On April 25, 1971 in Green City, Missouri, Joyce was united in marriage to Walter "Sonny" Johnson who preceded her in death on March 25, 2017.
Joyce is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Janet and Gary Drummond of Green City, MO; brother-in-law, Bob Ross of Excelsior Springs, MO; sisters-in-law, Julia Wood of Unionville, MO, and Wanda Roof of Lemons, MO; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Joyce was a graduate from Green City High School with the Class of 1961. She worked along side of her husband on their farm a number of years and enjoyed gardening, mushroom hunting, living a nice quite life on the farm, going to auctions, crotcheting, and loved her dogs and cats.
She was a member of the El Kadir Jewels and of the Green City Assembly of God Church.
Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Sunday, June 15, 2025 with family receiving friends from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. service time in the chapel of Travis-Noe Funeral Home in Kirksville. Pastor Alan Coonfield will officiate the service and interment will follow at Green Castle Cemetery in Green Castle, MO.
Expressions of sympathy in memory of Joyce may be made to Green Castle Cemetery or to the Alzheimer's Association and may be left at or mailed to Travis-Noe Funeral Home, P.O. Box 306, Kirksville, MO 63501.