Joyce Lea Manning
December 13, 1933 ~ July 28, 2015
Joyce Lea Manning, 82, of Bradford died at 6:59 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at Liberty Village of Princeton. Born Dec. 13, 1933, in Osceola Township to Howard and Stella (Osborn) Bernard, she married David Eugene Manning June 8, 1951, in the Boyd''s Grove Church in Milo, Ill. He died Oct. 20, 2012. She graduated from Bradford High School and worked at Caterpillar in Mossville. She was a member of Boyd''s Grove United Methodist Church in rural Bradford. Surviving are four sons, Jeffrey (Alta) Manning of Virginia, Kenneth (Francis) Manning of Kansas City, Kan., Vernon (Raynette) Manning of Odesa, Texas, and Kevin (Janet) Manning of Neponset; three daughters, Julia (Thomas) Johnston of Washington state, Mary (Roy) Johnson of Wyanet and Amy (Tony) Stofferahn of Aitkin, Minn.; 21 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; two sisters, Barbara Jones of Morris and Peggy (Ron) Cox of Elmwood; and two brothers, Howard (Terry) Bernard of Elmwood and Bill (Phyllis ) Bernard of California. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Helen Bedford. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Grant-Johnson Funeral Home, Bradford, with Pastor Amy Holman officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date in the Osceola Grove Cemetery, Bradford. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, July 31, at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to the Alzheimer''s Association.
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