Reid Joseph Joyce
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 6A - April 17, 2012
Reid Joseph Joyce, age 74, died
Friday morning, April 13, 2012,
at his home, following a brief but
difficult battle with cancer.
Reid was born April 3, 1938, to
William J. and Lyndall E. (Burch)
Joyce in Delta, CO. He spent his
childhood in Delta, and graduated
from Delta High School in
1956. Reid went onto Mesa Jr.
College in Grand Junction. He married Alice Weams on October 6,
1961, in Littleton, CO. They had also resided in Nucla, Grand Junction
and Denver, CO, before relocating to Montrose, where they
made their home until Reid's time of death.
Reid loved spending time with family, and gambling trips out of
town was a favorite that Reid and Alice enjoyed doing together. He
was an avid sports fan, especially the Denver Broncos, and the Colorado
Rockies. Reid will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
He was a very special husband, father, brother, friend and was so
deeply loved by them all.
Surviving family members include his wife, Alice Joyce of the
family home in Montrose; son, Kevin Reid Joyce, a new resident of
Montrose since moving from Missouri where he had resided for 12
years; sisters, Sandra Bailey of Carlin NV; Lyndall Johnson and
Melissa (Les) Hamilton, all of Delta, CO; his extended family, sisters-
in-law and husbands of Grand Junction, and numerous nieces
and nephews. Reid was preceded in death by his parents and a son,
Kerry William Joyce died in 1982.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice & Palliative Care
of Western Colorado, in memory of Reid Joyce, P.O. Box 1804,
Montrose, CO 81402. A funeral service will be held on Thursday,
April 19, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at Crippin Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial will follow the service at Grand View Cemetery, west of
Montrose. Arrangements are under the direction of Crippin Funeral
Home & Crematory, Montrose, CO.
