Joyce Drennen
Joyce Drennen
Joyce Drennen
1931-2015
Joyce Drennen, age 84, of Clarinda, Iowa formerly of Yorktown, Iowa, entered into peace Sunday, November 8, 2015 at Goldenrod Manor, Clarinda, Iowa. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m., Friday, November 20, 2015 at Ritchie Funeral Home, Clarinda, Iowa with Ken Card officiating. Visitation with the family will be held 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. day, November 20, 2015 at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Polsley Cemetery, rural Yorktown, Iowa. Memorials may be directed to the Clarinda Humane Society. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on our website at, www.ritchiefuneralhome.com under Obituaries. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Clarinda, Iowa.
Joyce Anne Merriett was born April 11, 1931, in rural Burlington Jct, Missouri to Jesse Marcus Merriett and Lela Golda (Dawson) Merriett. Joyce lived in rural Burlington Jct her entire childhood and graduated from Burlington Jct high school in 1948. Joyce was united in marriage June 4, 1948 in Elmo, Missouri to Charles Drennen. They were blessed with three daughters, Patricia, Peggy and Pamela.
Early in her working career she worked as a secretary in Clarinda, Iowa and when her mother died in 1951 she and Charles moved back to rural Burlington Jct, Missouri to help her father on the farm. Joyce became a stay at home mom after Patricia was born in 1952. Joyce always had a very large garden and many flowers. Joyce and Charles and family moved to Yorktown, Iowa the summer of 1959 and would raise their family in Yorktown. They lived and became very active in the community until Charles died in 2012. Joyce worked as bookkeeper for Drennen Auto Repair in Yorktown and other places in Clarinda. Joyce moved to Clarinda, Iowa in 2014 first living in Southview and then moving to Goldenrod Manor November 2014.
Joyce was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Charles Drennen; sisters Orba (Oral) Brown and Marjorie (Wayne) Logan and brother Jess Merriett, Jr. and granddaughter Kristin Drennen.
Left to cherish her memory are her daughters; Pat (Keith) Huseman of Coin, Iowa, Peg (Tom) Barbee of Lincoln, Nebraska and Pam (Russell) Lindholm of San Antionio,Texas; grandchildren, Jenny Huseman, Brian Huseman, Jill Mitchell, Lauren Barbee, Madison Barbee, Abby Meadows; great grandchildren, Reyna Huseman, Jordan Flores, Sydney Meadows; sister-in-law Mary Jane Merriett; brother-in-law Sam Drennen; nieces; nephews and many friends.
