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Joy W. (Currie) Reel died Nov. 22, 2017

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Nov. 25, at 10 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Missouri Valley, Iowa. Interment will follow at the Rose Hill Memorial Garden in Missouri Valley. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Luncheon to follow at the church.

On Jan. 19, 1930, Joy Currie was born to Mae F. (Chambers) and W. Ward Currie in Missouri Valley. On Dec. 21, 1952, she married Robert F. Reel in the Methodist Church where she also was baptized as a baby. They have three children: W.F. “Butch” Reel and he has three children: John, Andy and Bovey, Julie Steen and family, and Dr. Jill S. Reel (Burianek) and her husband Jeff Burianek and their children, Brooke (Grant) Harms and Nick Burianek.

Joy graduated from Missouri Valley High School in 1948. She received her Associated Degree in Mathematics from Colorado Women’s College in Denver. She was very active in her communities and in church and the choir. Her great passions were her family, travel (she visited all 50 states and their capitals and traveled overseas), china painting and painting and loved to dance.

Memorials are suggested to Arlington Youth Foundation and St. Paul Lutheran Church, Arlington.

#2-Published in the Omaha World Herald November 24, 2017

Reel, Joy W. Jan 19, 1930 - Nov 22, 2017 Joy Currie was born to Mae F. (Chambers) and W. Ward Currie in Missouri Valley, IA. On December 21, 1952, she married Robert F. Reel in the Methodist Church where she also was baptized as a baby. They have 3 children, W.F. "Butch" Reel and he has 3 children, John, Andy and Bovey; Julie Steen and family; Dr. Jill S. Reel (Burianek) and her husband, Jeff Burianek and their children, Brooke (Grant) Harms, Nick Burianek. Joy graduated from Missouri Valley High School in 1948. She received her Associated Degree in Mathematics from Colorado Women's College, Denver, CO. She was very active in her communities and in church and the choir. Her great passions were her family, travel (she visited all 50 states and their capitals and traveled overseas), china painting and painting and loved to dance. FUNERAL SERVICES will be 10am Saturday, November 25th, at the United Methodist Church, Missouri Valley, IA. Internment will follow at the Rose Hill Memorial Garden, Missouri Valley. VISITATION will be held 1 hour prior to the Service at the Church. Luncheon to follow at the Church. Memorials are suggested to Arlington Youth Foundation and St. Paul Lutheran Church, Arlington, NE. HENNESSEY FUNERAL HOME Missouri Valley, IA 712-642-2745

#3-Published in the Enterprise November 24, 2017

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Joy W. (Currie) Reel, 87, passed away Nov. 22. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Nov. 25 at 10 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Missouri Valley, Iowa. Interment will follow at the Rose Hill Memorial Garden in Missouri Valley. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Luncheon to follow at the church.

On Jan. 19, 1930, Joy Currie was born to Mae F. (Chambers) and W. Ward Currie in Missouri Valley, Iowa. On Dec. 21, 1952, she married Robert F. Reel in the Methodist Church where she also was baptized as a baby. They have three children: W.F. "Butch" Reel and he has three children: John, Andy and Bovey, Julie Steen and family, and Dr. Jill S. Reel (Burianek) and her husband Jeff Burianek and their children Brooke (Grant) Harms and Nick Burianek.

Joy graduated from Missouri Valley High School in 1948. She received her Associated Degree in Mathematics from Colorado Women's College in Denver, Colo. Joy worked in Omaha for Skinner Manufacturing. After marriage, she worked in Ames at Iowa State University as a payroll clerk. She later worked at Warner, Kellogg and Day Insurance Agency in Missouri Valley. She moved with her husband and family to several towns in Iowa and wrote a column called, Reel's Revelations. She was an editor for the Perry Dailey Chief in Perry, Iowa, and the Emmetsburg Democrat in Emmetsburg, Iowa and the Grundy Register in Grundy Center, Iowa. She also did photography for the papers. In Omaha, she worked for Brandeis Distribution Center. She was always very active in her communities and in church and the choir. Her great passions were her family, travel (she visited all 50 states and their capitals and traveled overseas), china painting, painting and loved to dance.

Memorials are suggested to Arlington Youth Foundation and St. Paul Lutheran Church, Arlington.

ObituarIes courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.