Dorothy “Dot” Joyce Griffin, 86, of Lenoir, North Carolina, died Monday, March 16, 2020, at Caldwell UNC Medical Center in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Funeral services will be held 2 PM, Friday, March 20, 2020, at The Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Ocilla, with Elder Dennis Thibault officiating. Interment will follow in the Mt. Paron Cemetery, in Berrien County, Georgia. The family will receive friends Thursday evening, from 6 PM until 8 PM, at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Griffin was born May 2, 1933, in Irwin County, Georgia, to the late Benjamin Bartow Joyce & Lula Mae Soules Joyce. She was a farm wife and raised five daughters. She lived in the Berrien County community for over 52 years. Mrs. Griffin was a member of Alapaha Baptist Church.
She is survived by her daughters: Patricia Davis & William Thomas Whitehead of Lenoir, North Carolina, Sylvia Towles of Alapaha, Brenda Sue Noel of Zephyrhills, Florida, Terri Griffin Sears & James of Douglas and Charity Mixon & Jim of Waterloo and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband William Daniel “Buck” Griffin; two infant daughters and two brothers: John Aubrey Joyce and Eugene Joyce.