Joyce Gail Rollins, 66, of Harrisonburg, passed from this life on Monday, May 20, 2013, at Natchez Regional Medical Center in Natchez, Mississippi. She was born August 20, 1946 in Converse to the union of her parents, John Burl and Eva Alvis Godfry Morris. Joyce was a homemaker. Services were held Thursday, May 23, in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with the Revs. Brian Taylor and Chad Franklin officiating. Interment followed in the Hamilton Cemetery of Aimwell under direction of Hixson Brothers, Inc. of Jena. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Clinton Rollins; sisters, Ella Mea Hamilton and Mary Lou Ford; brother, Robert Lee Morris; and son-in-law, Albert Ogden. Survivors include four daughters, Sherry G. Ogden, Robbie Joyce Rollins, and Tasha Rollins, all of Jonesville, and Georgia Barker of Harrisonburg; three sons, James A. Barker and Robert K. Rollins, both of Jonesville, and Judson Barker of Oakdale; two step-daughters, Ruby Edwards of Jena and Tammy Smith of Jonesville; one step-son, Robert T. Rollins of Jonesville; two sisters, Robbie Hemphill of Converse, and Marie Blaney of Sicily Island; a brother, J. B. Morris, Jr. of Jonesville 17 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Pallbearers were Ernest Hamilton, Robert Morris, Joseph Franklin, Chester Franklin, Markus Creed, and Robert Rollins.
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