Cowlitz County WA Archives Obituaries.....Myers, Joyce    December 6, 2005
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Published in The Daily News on 12/8/2005. 
  
 
Joyce Myers passed away on Tuesday, December 6, 2005, at the age of 78. 

A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, December 10, 2005, New 
Horizons Church, 405 N. l9th Avenue, Kelso, WA for Jospehine (Joyce) Myers who  
was born on July 24, 1927, in Belt, Montana, to Joseph Sim, Sr. and Margaret 
(Atkinson) Sim. The family moved to Longview in l935 where Joyce attended 
Longview schools and graduated in l944 from R. A. Long High School. After 
graduation Joyce moved to Washington D. C. and worked for the United States 
Treasury Department. After World War II she returned to Longview and married 
Charles Marshall Myers, Jr., on November 30, 1946, at Trinity Lutheran Church. 
They had just celebrated 59 years of marriage.Joyce worked for Long Bell, K.O. 
Harwood Insurance and was employed for 22 years as the secretary to the Nursing 
Department at Lower Columbia College, retiring in l989.Joyce and Marshall moved 
to Castle Rock, Washington in l989. Family was very important to Joyce and she 
especially enjoyed her grandchildren and attended all of their sporting and 
school events. She also loved working in her yard in the spring and summer and 
had many beautiful flowers.

Survivors include her husband, Marshall; daughters, Gail, Portland, OR; Cathy 
(Stan) Dahl, Castle Rock, WA; sons, Bruce (Diane), Longview, WA; Barry 
(Phoebe), Castle Rock, WA. Grandchildren, Janna, Jill, Katy (B.J.), Jonathan, 
Jeffery, Lucas, Nathan, Travis, Traci, McKenzie, and great grandchildren, 
Tyler, Taite and Kennedy. She is also survived by her sister Betty (Robert) 
Kinnaman, and brother-in-law Norman (Dot) Myers, and numerous nieces and 
nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, sister, Marjorie Sim Wooley and twin 
brother Joseph Sim, Jr.  Remembrances to the Joyce Myers Nursing Scholarship in 
care of Lower Columbia College Foundation, 1600 Maple, Longview, WA 98632. 
Arrangements by Columbia Funeral Service.Please sign the guest book at 
www.tdn.com/obits  


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