Joyce Ann Patterson, age 75, of Leighton, died Monday July 30, 2012. Visitation will be Wednesday 6-8 p.m. at Morrison Funeral Home of Tuscumbia. Her funeral service will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Charles Simmons and Herschel Quinn officiating. Burial will follow in Shaw Cemetery.
Mrs. Patterson was a Colbert County native and a member of East Colbert Baptist Church. She loved fishing and gardening and was preceded in death by her parents; Greenberry and Hattie Mae Watson Fuller.
She survived by her husband, John Henry Patterson of Leighton; son, J R “Tony” Crosswhite, JR. of Muscle Shoals; step sons, John Steven Patterson and Chris Patterson, both of Leighton; daughter, Libby Crosswhite Smith of Muscle Shoals; brothers, Milton Fuller of Michigan and Ricky Fuller of Tuscumbia; sisters, Edith Laster of Muscle Shoals and Lois Treadway of Moulton, six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Pallbearers are Jimmy King, Stewart Hennigan, Wade Patterson, John Patterson, Ray Fuller, Kevin Fuller, Ricky Fuller and Jimmy Aday.
