Tahlequah Daily Press

Obituaries

September 28, 2007

Alice Joy Falling

HULBERT -- Alice Joy Falling, 74, passed peacefully at her home in Webbers Falls on Sept. 25, 2007.

Walter Wilson and Charlotte Beaverett, of Hulbert, welcomed their eighth child on March 12, 1933, a baby girl that they named Alice Joy. "Joy" is what friends and family lovingly called her.

Joy attended Hulbert Public Schools. Upon graduation, she continued her education at Northeastern State University, where she received her bachelor's degree in education. Shortly after completion of her education, she married her college roommate's brother, Morris Gilbert Falling, of Vinita. During their marriage, they had three children, Lavonna, Morris, and Lou Alice.

Joy is survived by two brothers, Guy Wilson and his wife Ruth of Hulbert, and Walter Wilson of Del City; sister-in-law, Ray Wilson of Hulbert; her children, Lavonna Brooke, Morris Falling of Vinita, and Lou Miller and her husband Mark of Webbers Falls; four granddaughters, Fallon Brooke of Lawton, Jessica Brooke and Christine Alma-Joy Brooke, both of Muskogee, and Jimmie Beth Falling of Kansas; two grandsons, D.J. Brooke of Muskogee and Aaron Edward Miller of Webbers Falls; one great-grandchild, Landon Blaine Nail of Lawton; nieces and nephews, Dr. and Mrs. Sue Anne Brixey of Tahlequah, Curtis and Marsha Lamb of Hulbert, Elizabeth Edwards of Vian, Diana and Novis Carlisle of Ardmore, David and Trish Wilson of Hulbert, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Wilson of Claremore, and Dale and Jamie Roden, of South Dakota; as well as several great-nieces and nephews.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Hulbert's IOOF Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of Foster-Petering Funeral Home.

Foster-Petering Funeral Home, 904 W. Okmulgee, Muskogee, (918) 682-3436.

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