Joyce "MiMi" Marks (Plainview)
Joyce Alene (Davis) Marks, 70, left her earthly home on July 28th, 2023. She passed away at her home in Lockney, TX, with family. Visitation will be held at Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Plainview, TX, on Monday, July 31st, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at Lockney Methodist Church in Lockney, TX, on Tuesday, August 1st. She will then be transported to Poteau, Oklahoma, for visitation on Wednesday, August 2nd, from 6 pm to 8 pm at Evans and Miller Funeral Home. A graveside service will be held at 10 am on Thursday, August 3rd, at Old Cache Cemetery in Keota, Oklahoma. She will be laid to rest among her family that has gone to Heaven and has waited patiently for her time on Earth to be complete.
Joyce, ‘Mimi’ as her grandchildren and great-grandchildren lovingly referred to her, was born on October 21, 1952, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to Raymond and Anna Lee (Harris) Davis. She was raised in Oklahoma and graduated from Spiro, Oklahoma, in 1970. She met her future husband, Ed Marks, at a small café in Sunset Corner, Oklahoma. After a whirlwind romance, they were married on July 10, 1970, in Muleshoe, Texas. They began their life together in Rotan, TX, where they had two daughters. After a few years there, they found their way to Lockney, TX, where they settled, added a son, and raised their family. Joyce worked in the school in Lockney for 35 years, holding many positions. She first began as a teacher’s aide, then a P.E. teacher, the elementary librarian, and finally finished her career in LISD as a cafeteria manager. Because she was not one to sit idly, she usually took on other jobs, such as working at Brown’s Dept. Store and later Schacht’s flower shop. She was well known for helping so many in the community. She could often be seen working in her yard, taking care of her flowers, and digging weeds in friends’ yards. She was a loving and caring person willing to step in and help many in the community.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Raymond and Anna Lee, one sister, Goldie Saulsbury, two brothers, Dewitt and Billy Davis, one niece, Mary Davis, and one great-niece, K.D. Osburn.
She is survived by her husband, Ed Marks of Lockney, and her children, Jessica and Husband, Doug James of Midland, Robin Keyser of Lockney and Joseph and wife Salina of Flomot; 10 grandchildren, Jesslyn Davis, Miles, Nicole, Sheridan and Sara Keyser, and Grayson and Madelyn Marks, Kennadi, Alex and Zach James; and four great-grandchildren: Trenton, Niaomi, Gohan and Natalie; 1 sister, Sharon Baxter and husband Hanford of Panama, Oklahoma, and two brothers, Jesse Davis of Spiro, Oklahoma and Raymond Lee Davis and wife Fran of Barling, Arkansas; 1 aunt, Madelyn Brown of Mounds, Oklahoma; 2 sisters-in-law Dortha Gunter of San Angelo, Texas and Shirley Nock of Levelland, Texas; numerous cousins, nieces and nephews that she loved and loved her and will all miss her dearly.
