Nancy
Joy is my sister and 13 years older than me. She and her first husband Gene Smith use to go fishing and camping at all the lakes in Okla and they would take me with them. They were like parents to me. We would go to Frontier City amusement park and ride the horses there. She loved listening to singers Conway Twitty and Dean Martin.
She was great at doing arts and crafts and she and her 3rd husband Eddie made little wooden toys and would go to Walmart parking lot at Christmas and give them out to little kids, they also had a booth at Pleasant Valley Farms Pumpkin festival in October and sell toys there. She did floral arrangements, painting, knitting and crocheting and designing her house to look like no one else’s.
Her very best friends were Mary and John McClain they all went hunting, fishing and camping a lot together. Their favorite restaurant was Casa Bonita in Tulsa that served fresh hot Sopitas with honey and Shotgun Sam’s pizza palace.
She loved her 2 grandchildren Shayla Smith-Morris and Brennon Smith most of all. She was very grateful for the enormous help from her step daughter Marcie Adams who helped her and her third husband Eddie Whitten when they both had Covid. Marcie would go to the grocery store and pharmacy for them. Joy loved her big dog Buck who now lives with Marcie and he has lots of doggie friends and baby goats to look after. He is Anatolian and Great Pyrenees mixed.
Joy was married 3 times . Eugene “Gene” Paul Smith of Porum, Okla. Frank Goad and Ralph “Eddie’ Whitten. Gene passed away in 1981 and 1 year later she married Frank Goad.
Joy was named after her daddy Frank Leon Mayhan. He and our mother had 3 children Joy was first in 1941, Sandra Mayhan-Thomas of Northern California in 1945 was 2nd then Johnnie Leon Mayhan in 1947 of Okla. After Frank passed away she married my dad.
Joy was a jokester and liked to pull pranks on everyone. She was fun and funny and smart too. I will always miss my sister. She and Eddie’s home and property are beautiful with a pond for fishing. Morning sunrises and evening sunsets are a photographers dream at her house.