Funeral services for Joye Marien Anderson planned

Funeral services

Funeral services for Joye Marie Anderson, 91 of Spiro are 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mallory-Martin Chapel in Spiro with Reverend James Smith and Reverend Phil McGehee officiating.

Burial will follow at New Hope Cemetery in Spiro, under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home in  Spiro.

Joye was born March 15, 1934, at Short Mountain to Louie and Evie Jones Vineyard. She came from a big family with seven sisters and five brothers. Joye attended Flower Hill School west of Spiro through the eighth grade and graduated from Spiro High School in 1952. She moved to Talihina to work at the cafe of her Uncle Harvey and Aunt Velma Jones, and there she met Edwin “Buddy” Anderson. Her sister Faye and husband Jack Cox later bought the cafe from Harvey and Velma, and Joye worked for them, too. Joye and Buddy married in 1954 at the First Baptist Church in Talihina. They honeymooned in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and later traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan to visit Vineyard relatives. 

Their son Blake was born in 1955, and Joe was born in 1958. The family lived in Talihina until moving in the late 1960s when Buddy changed jobs from public school education to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Their moves took them to Ardmore (Carter Seminary), Flagstaff, Arizona (Northern Arizona University), El Reno (Concho Indian School), and Newkirk (Chilocco Indian School). Buddy and Joye moved to Spiro in the mid-1980s, several years after Chilocco Indian School closed. Joye worked 30 years in retail clothing sales, first at R&G Style Shoppe in Newkirk from 1971 until 1985, then at Dillard’s in Fort Smith, Arkansas from 1986 until her retirement in 2000. Joye was a top salesperson for Dillard’s, achieving their Pacesetter Sales status for 10 years in a row. Joye played basketball in high school and was a big fan of Oklahoma City’s Thunder basketball team. She rarely missed watching Thunder games on TV and enjoyed OSU and OU football. Joye had a collection of antiques throughout her home, along with vintage glassware and dish sets. She enjoyed time spent with her quilting circle friends in Spiro. Joye was a member of Spiro First Baptist Church.

Survivors include sons Blake Anderson and wife Stacey of Yukon, and Joe Anderson and wife Leslie of Tulsa; grandsons Riley Anderson and wife Rose of Fort Worth, Texas, Will Anderson of Edmond, Sam Anderson of Tulsa, and Max Anderson and partner Tader Shipley of Boston, Massachusetts; great-granddaughter Magnolia Joye Anderson of Fort Worth, Texas; sisters Patsy Stout of Broken Arrow and Kay Bennett of Spiro; twin brother, Roy Vineyard, of Panama; numerous nieces and nephews, and many friends. Joye was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. 

Joye was preceded in death by Edwin Anderson, her husband of 53 years; parents Louie and Evie Vineyard; brothers Johnny, Murel, Charles and Franklin Vineyard; sisters Mayme Brock, Mildred Kennedy, Carol Kuykendall, Faye Brooks and Glenna Hinton. 

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