Obit of Griggs, LaJoyce - Stephens County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 25 Feb 1998

LaJoyce Griggs

KENTON, Okla. - LaJoyce Griggs, 51, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998.

Services will be at 2 p.m. (MST) Wednesday in Kenton Community Building 
with the Rev. Selma R. Cullop, pastor of Kenton United Methodist Church, 
the Rev. L. Dean Cullop and the Rev. Galen Smith officiating. Burial will 
be in Kenton Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton, N.M.

Mrs. Griggs was born in Turlock, Calif. She was raised in Duncan and was a 
1965 graduate of Duncan High School.

She married Louis Allan Griggs in 1965 at Duncan.

She attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. After 
her husband's military service in Fort Polk, La., she worked at 
Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant.

In 1970, they moved to Norman, where she was president of the Engineers 
Wives' Club. They moved to Pearisburg, Va., where she was active with the 
Giles County Little Theater. After spending two years in Houston, Texas, 
they lived in Abqaiq and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

In 1986, they moved to Kenton and started a vineyard. After living in 
Greeley, Colo., St. Louis, Woodward and Tahlequah, they moved back to 
Kenton in 1993.

They had owned and operated the Kenton Mercantile Co. since that time.

Mrs. Griggs was a member of Kenton United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her husband; a son, Aric Griggs of Muskogee; two 
daughters, Andrea Bell and Misty Trapp, both of Tahlequah; her parents, 
J.W. and Addie Voyles of Harlingen, Texas; a brother, Jerry Voyles of 
Tahlequah; four grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren.
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