© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Friday, January 28, 2000 Funeral services for Joylene "Joy" Cheryl Mack , 55, of rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., formerly of the Rush Springs and Chickasha area, will be held at 10:30 am Saturday, Jan. 29, 2000, in the Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Larry Hatfield officiating. Joylene Bennett Mack was born Feb. 11, 1944, in Rush Springs, the daughter of Leo Bennett and Grace Marie Kight Bennett. She died Monday, Jan. 24, 2000, in Torrance, Calif. Bennett graduated from the Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha, now USAO, with a degree in speech and hearing disorders. She later accepted a teaching position in Ventura, Calif., where she met her husband, Robert "Rob" Mack. They were married in Chickasha. They had lived in Los Angeles, Calif., the New York City, N.Y., area, Fort Worth, Texas, and Arizona before returning to their home on the Pacific Ocean in southern California in 1991. Joy had traveled with her husband to some 20 countries, including India, Nepal, Bali, Israel and Egypt. She went on to earn her master's degree in communicative disorders at California State University in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1997, and had been employed as a speech pathologist for the Los Angeles Unified School District since the early 1990s. She enjoyed reading, especially the Bible, leading women's Bible study groups, explaining the Christian faith to potential new believers, painting her house and hiking and traveling with her husband. She also competed as a long distance runner. She was preceded in death by both parents, one brother and two sisters. |
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