This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lockhart, Farris, Kilbride Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.farris/2699/mb.ashx Message Board Post: News and Observer Raleigh, NC December 15, 2006 Joyce L. Farris died of cancer on December 12, 2006 at her home in Croasdaile Village in Durham. She was born in Penney Farms, FL, on September 13, 1926 to Irene and Milton Lockhart. The family moved to the Chicago area when Joyce was two, and she grew up in Downers Grove, Illinois. At age 16, Joyce left home to attend Berea High School in Berea, KY. During the summer of 1944, she worked as an attendant in a Milwaukee sanitarium. At age 18, she entered Berea College and graduated in 1948 with a B.A. in Philosophy. She entered Duke Divinity School in the fall of 1948 and studied there until 1950. Joyce worked in the office of the Dean of the Divinity School and for Professor Shelton Smith during 1948, and held secretarial positions at Duke University through 1956. On November 20, 1956, she married Donn Michael Farris in Suffolk, VA. Her husband, the former Director of Duke's Divinity School Library, preceded her in death in 2005. Mrs. Farris worked as a medical secretary for Dr. Julian Ruffin from 1956 until 1978. In 1970, she entered the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received her Master's in Library Science in 1974. In 1978, she began working as a catalog librarian in Duke's Perkins Library, where she put to excellent use her knowledge of seven languages. She retired from the Library in 1992. >From 1950 until 1992, she was the Recording Secretary of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), and was a lifetime member. Joyce Lockhart Farris is survived by her son, Evan Farris, his wife, Susan, and their sons, Austin and Sean of Springfield, VA; by her daughter, Amy Farris Kilbride, her husband, Patrick, and their daughter, Kelsea of Superior, CO; by her brother, George Lockhart his wife, Rebecca, and their daughter, Tamara of Jacksonville, FL, and their son, Gregory of Columbia, SC; and by a nephew, Steven Abbott of Salinas, CA, and a niece, Gwen Eaton of Las Vegas, NV. Joyce brought light and laughter to the world and o her family and her many friends. She will be greatly missed and always remembered. It was her wish that memorial gifts be designated for Berea College (by mail to Berea College, CPO 2216, Berea, KY 40404, or online at www.berea.edu/friendsdonors/makinggift.asp ). A memorial service will be held on January 3, 2007 at 2 p.m. in the Goodson Chapel at the Duke University Divinity School.