Joyce Catherine Worthy Coulter of Muscle Shoals passed away on Monday, November 20, 2017 at the age of 83. Her visitation will be Friday, November 24, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. at Morrison Funeral Home, Tuscumbia. The funeral service will follow at 1:00 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Tommy James officiating. The entombment will be in Shoals Memorial Gardens.
Joyce was a lifelong resident of the Shoals. She was a 1952 graduate of Deshler High School where she was a majorette and chosen “cutest of her senior class”. She was the youngest of the Worthy sisters. Following graduation she entered nurses training at the Birmingham hospital, Jefferson- Hillman, which was a medical division of the University of Alabama. She was crowned “Miss Jefferson-Hillman” her senior year. She received her nursing degree at the University of Alabama in May 1955. She worked the majority of her nursing career in the Shoals area beginning at Colbert County Hospital, now Helen Keller, then Shoals Hospital, finally retiring from Muscle Shoals Nursing Home in 1994. She was the epitome of a nurse with her white A-line nursing uniform, starched nursing cap, white stockings and polished white shoes. She instilled her hard working, dedicated, and caring ethics in her 3 children.
Joyce was preceded in death by her parents, Howard and Millie Worthy and her sister, Dolly Fisk.
She is survived by her son, Jeff Coulter (Joan); daughters, Cathe Harrison (Price) and Mona Jackson; sisters, Dorothy Burns and Frances Bigbee; grandchildren, Jody Jackson (Carly), Millie Harrison, Jada Durden (Caleb), Jessie Harrison, Cory Coulter and Brandon Coulter; and great-grandchildren, Gunner Durden and Collin Jackson.
Pallbearers will be Jody Jackson, Caleb Durden, Cory Coulter, Brandon Coulter, Clint Bigbee, and Stuart Bigbee.
Memorials may be made in memory of Joyce to the Lauderdale Christian Nursing Home.
The family extends a heartfelt thanks to Annette Parker, who cared for our mother as she was her own mother, and loving appreciation to the entire staff at Lauderdale Christian Nursing Home.
