Enid, OK — FAIRVIEW – Joyce A. Stricker Rexroat, 73, went to meet the Lord Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Enid. Funeral service will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, at First Baptist Church, Lahoma, with Pastor Steve Campbell officiating. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Helena. Viewing will be at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today with the family present from 6-8 p.m. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.lanmanmemorials.com.
Joyce was born April 4, 1936, in Ringwood to Joseph Lester Stricker and Martha “Mattie” Koons Stricker, the youngest of 11 children. Joyce was an aunt two months before she was born. She grew up south of Ringwood, attending Cimarron Valley Elementary School and graduating from Ringwood High School in 1954. Joyce then attended business school in Oklahoma City.
She married Ernest Rexroat in 1955 and began a life as a homemaker and mother of three children. Joyce had one son, Keith Rexroat and wife Denise of Ringwood; two daugthers, Marilyn Bloyd and husband Kent and Barbara Rexroat, both of Aline. She had four grandchildren, Matt Rexroat and wife Lisa, Andrea Rexroat and husband Charles Hinton, all of Memphis, Tenn., area, Oscar Bloyd and wife Jami of Oklahoma City and Crystal Bloyd of Enid. Joyce also loved her four great-grandchildren, Abigail Rexroat, Brandon Hinton, Aubrey Oldham and Cayden Bloyd.
After getting her youngest child in school she took a job as head cook for Aline-Cleo High School, where she worked until 1973, when she moved with her family a few miles to the Ringwood school system. She was then employed at Kmart as a sales clerk, retiring in 1998 as bookkeeper/office manager.
Joyce moved in January 2008 to Fairview Fellowship Village, where she remained relatively independent until her final health fight.
Joyce is survived by her children; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; one brother, Everett Stricker and wife Margurette of Great Bend, Kan.; two sisters, Dortha Sparks and husband Sam of Raymore, Mo., Mary Campbell and husband Waldo of Ringwood; nephew, raised as Joyce’s brother, Burl Stricker and wife Hope of Collegedale, Tenn.; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and five sisters.
Memorials may be given to Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation through the funeral home.
(Paid Obit 11-13-1)
