Mrs. Joyce Holmes Foskey, age 90, beloved wife of the late Marvin James Foskey, of the Rockledge Community, passed away on Thursday morning, June 16, 2022 at the Serenity Place in Dublin.
Born in Laurens County, she was one of ten children born to the late Emory S. and Ethel Whitfield Holmes. She and her siblings grew up in Johnson and Laurens counties; moving often with her father’s work as a Sharecropper. She attended the Condor School in the Condor Community. In 1950 she married Marvin Foskey and they made their home in the Rockledge Community since the late 1950s. Her husband passed away on June 15, 1992.
Mrs. Foskey was compassionate and caring and enjoyed preparing meals for her family. She derived as much joy from watching them enjoy what she had fixed as she did from the preparation of the meal. She was selfless; always putting the wellbeing and her concern for others ahead of herself. She enjoyed gardening, canning, maintaining her yard and her affiliation with the Wilkes Church of the Nazarene.
In addition to her parents and husband, she is preceded in death by a daughter, Johnnie Ree Stewart and siblings, Vernon Holmes, Floyd Holmes Sr., Ralph E. Holmes, Richard Holmes, Gene Holmes, Gladine Connell, Marjorie Garner and Mattie Curry.
Mrs. Foskey leaves behind: children, Patricia Anderson (Ernest), Rockledge, GA, Lewis Foskey (Marilyn), East Dublin, GA, James Wendell Foskey (Kim), Milledgeville, GA, Marvin Ricky Foskey (Crystal), East Dublin, GA, Frankie Louise Stewart, Allgood, TN, Annette Poston, Cookeville, TN, her last living sibling, Barbara Calhoun, Ailey, GA, twenty four grandchildren, thirty eight great grandchildren and one special great grandchild, twenty three great great grandchildren and one waiting to arrive, one great great, great grandchild, a special nephew, Clint Lawrence and countless other nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 pm on Saturday, June 18, 2022 in the Williams Chapel of Sammons Funeral Home, with Reverend Al Soles officiating.
Mrs. Foskey will be laid to rest beside her husband in the Thigpen Cemetery, Rockledge, GA.
Her family will receive friends on Saturday, at the funeral home, from 1:00 pm until the hour of service or friends and family may call at the home of her daughter, Patricia Anderson.
Serving as pallbearers will be Tommy Holmes, Scott Foskey, Brad Anderson, Joshua Foskey, Jonathan Foskey and Brandon Foskey.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be: Jessie Brooks, Dalton Mimbs and Ian Anderson.
Please share a memory, leave a condolence and sign the online guest register at www.sammonsfuneralhome.com.
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