The funeral service for Joy Pearl (Hinkle) Harris will be at 2:00 PM Monday, April 1, 2019 at the First Assembly of God in Wagoner, OK. The Reverend Tim Boyett will officiate.

Joy will be laid to rest beside her beloved husband, Arnold Wayne Harris, in Elmwood Cemetery in Wagoner, OK. Pallbearers will be Curtis Harris, Duke Harris, Troy Fulton, J.D. Harris, M.J. Scott and Chancey "Chooch" Scott. Honorary pallbearers will be Floyd Young, Edgar Jeffers, Clay Schwab, Steve Abshier and Norman Rosamond.

Friends and family will gather in the Chapel at Mallett Funeral Home and Crematory for a visitation from 1:00 – 3:00 PM Sunday. Viewing will continue until 5:00 PM.

Joy Pearl (Hinkle) Harris was born February 25, 1935 in Chouteau, OK to George Christopher Hinkle and Mary Catherine (Skinner) Hinkle. She was raised in Chouteau and graduated from high school. She married Arnold Wayne Harris on December 10, 1953, and they settled in Wagoner where they raised their children, Doyle, Carol and Danny. Joy enjoyed her family and loved to provide a warm home. She liked canning the good foods from her garden. Even in later years Joy loved travelling wherever, especially when chasing her grandchildren to some activity.

Joy was a longtime member of the First Assembly of God, where she taught Sunday school and was active in the Golden Stars part of the church's Women's Missionary Ministry.

Although Joy's home and family life were always her main interests, many others were fortunate to know her through the places she worked around Wagoner. Included are Centers Furniture, Office Place, Wagoner Newspaper, Jeffers, Owl Drug, Bible Book Store, Felts Shoe Store, Wagoner Glass and Hobby Hut. For many years Joy was employed at Hersman-Nichols Funeral Home as a receptionist. Her kind and understanding heart was appreciated there as well as in her work as a caregiver later in life.

Joy passed from this life on Thursday, March 28, 2019 in Wagoner, OK at the age of 84 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne Harris, her parents and her siblings, Roy Earl Hinkle, Curtis Hinkle, Douglas Hinkle and Melinda Wood.

Her loving family, who will always remember her loving ways, include her three children and spouses, Doyle and Rhonda Harris, Carol and Mike Fulton and Danny and Gayle Harris, all of Wagoner, OK; grandchildren and spouses, Tina and M.J. Scott, Troy and Debi Fulton, Duke Harris, J.D. and Jennifer Harris, Curtis Harris and Jessica Harris, all of Wagoner; great-grandchildren, Chancey "Chooch", Bo, Levi, Raegan, Randi, Bailee, Audrey and Cohen; extended family and her many friends.