Joyce Ann Parker

Sept. 6, 1952-Feb. 2, 2022

Joyce Ann Parker, 69, passed away suddenly Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at Greenwood Healthcare, Greenwood, where she has been staying for a few months.

She was born Sept. 6, 1952, at Rensselaer, the daughter of Arthur William and Leona May (Madison) Lowe. She grew up in Morocco, Indiana and attended North Newton High School. Joyce was the seventh of seven sisters and one brother.

In 1973, Joyce was living and working at a dime store in Goodland, where she met Vernon Wood. In 1974, in Morocco, Indiana, they married. She had three children from that marriage, daughter Amy Wood and sons, Scott (April) and Tim (Jamie) Wood.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Arthur and Leona Lowe; sisters, Jean (Jack) Lasley and Betty (Bill) Dowty; and husband Vernon Wood.

Around the end of 2000, she met an Englishman, online, Colin Parker, from the UK. They formed a relationship online, and after daily phone calls and frequent meetings in person, he came to Indiana and they were married, at home, in Vermilion County in 2005. Together with Amy, Colin and Joyce moved to Wingate in 2010.

Joyce is survived by her husband Colin Parker; sisters, Judith (Mike) Cobleigh, Joan (Leo) Burris, Jennie (Jerry) Kellner and Nancy (Jim) Ingram; her three children; grandchildren, Skylar (Eli) Raplee, Austin, Jenifer, Timmy Wood, Ethan and Elijah Appel; three great-grandchildren, that she greatly adored, with one more on the way. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and their children. In the UK, she has seven step-children and 11 step-grandchildren, with two more on the way.

A celebration of Joyce’s life will be held at noon EST Friday, Feb. 11 at Sunset Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 420 Third St., Covington. A visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the funeral home prior to the service. She will be laid to rest in Lower Mounds Cemetery in Covington.

Please join her family in sharing memories, photos and videos on her tribute wall at www.sunsetfuneralhome.com.