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Joyce J. Booker

Joyce June Booker, 77, of Ossian, IN, and having family members in Huntington, IN, died Friday, July 18, 2014, at Signature HealthCare, Bluffton.

Mrs. Booker graduated from Northside High School and attended Fort Wayne Art School. She worked for may years at Kitco Inc. in Bluffton. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Ossian, where she served as a deacon.

She was born June 23, 1937 in Fort Wayne to Ray Michael and June Eyer. She married Richard G. Cayot on June 6, 1958. She married Ronald E. Booker in June 1980. He preceded her in death in 2012.

Survivors include three sons, Michael (Anne) Cayot, of Bluffton, and Steve (Kim) Cayot and Clark (Lisa) Cayot, both of Bellefontaine, OH; and three daughters, Kathy Gehrett, of Bluffton, and Linda (Gary) Stoffel and Yvonne (Jeffrey) Brown, both of Huntington; 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A service was held on Wednesday, July 23, 2014, at the Elzey-Patterson-Rodak Funeral Home, in Ossian, with Rev. Jay Cline officiating. Burial was at the Oak Lawn Cemetery, in Ossian.