Seventh Generation

3298. Joyce Ann HERMAN was born on 20 December 1934 in Catawba County, North Carolina. She died at St. Thomas Hospital on 27 October 2012 at the age of 77 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. Her obituary appeared as follows: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Joyce Ann Bumgarner, 77, of Bowling Green, Ky., passed away Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, at 1:14 a.m. She was the daughter of the late Samuel F. Herman and Myrtle Lafone Herman. Joyce was a member of Christ United Methodist Church. She loved people, never met a stranger and especially loved her grandchildren. Visitation will be today, (Monday, Oct. 29), from 4 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 30, from 9 to 11 a.m., at J. C. Kirby & Son Lovers Lane Chapel. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, at the funeral home, with burial at Bowling Green Gardens. Survivors include two daughters, Sharon Bumgarner Poston and husband, Tim and Tamara Bumgarner Henon and husband, Benny, both of Bowling Green; two grandchildren, Cody Poston and Jodi Henon, both of Bowling Green; and two step-grandchildren, Josh Poston and Kyle Poston, both of Bowling Green; two sisters, Carmen Whitener and Ruth Lawter, both of Hickory; and many nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husband, of 56 years, Milton S. Bumgarner; son, Milton S. Bumgarner, Jr.; sisters, Alice Overcash and Margaret Yoder; and four brothers, Edward Herman, Howard Herman, Paul Herman and Samuel B. Herman. Expressions of Sympathy can take the form of a donation to the American Heart Association and the Bowling Green Humane Society. Arrangements have been entrusted to J. C. Kirby & Son Funeral Chapels, Inc. [Published in Hickory Daily Record from October 28 to October 29, 2012]

Joyce Ann HERMAN and Milton BUMGARNER were married on 13 September 1952. Milton BUMGARNER was born on 20 July 1933 in Catawba County, North Carolina. He died on 20 April 2009 at the age of 75 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.