Joyce Helen (Johnson) Allen

Joyce Helen Johnson Allen, 88, of Harvest, AL, passed from this life on Sunday July 30, 2023, at Regency Retirement Center in Huntsville, AL. Funeral services will be conducted Friday August 4th at 2:00 p.m. in the Oakhurst Chapel of the Robertson County Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Hopewell Cemetery with family and friends serving as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Friday from 1:00 p.m. until service time at the funeral home.

Joyce was born May 4, 1935, on a farm in Springfield, to the late Thomas Benton and Carrie Ann Cook Johnson. She was a graduate of Springfield High School. Joyce was the fifth of six children. She was always a people person that never met a stranger, and had a gift for remembering names and always knew who was who in the family. Joyce was a member of Northeast Baptist Church in Clarksville, where she enjoyed singing in the choir, teaching Sunday School, and overseeing the floral arrangements for the church. She was a homemaker, but also enjoyed volunteering for the Red Cross and being a classroom mom and snack mom during her children’s school years. While married to her husband Billy Ray, she was always a wonderful Army wife and enjoyed traveling around the world during his military career and being a part of the Officer’s Wives Association. She loved their two children and always made moving every few years easy for all of them. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years: Billy Ray Allen and by her husband of 14 years: James Evans, and by her son: Anthony Ray “Tony” Allen.

Joyce is survived by her daughter and son-in-law: Tedra and David Stumbaugh of Harvest, AL, by her grandsons: Jeremy Stumbaugh and wife Kimberley, Jason Stumbaugh and wife Kenia, by her great grandchildren: Ethan, Aiden, Grace, and Eliza Stumbaugh, and by her sister: Virginia Johnson Trimble Ritter of Adairville, KY.

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