Joyce Lynn Doty

Ms. Joyce Lynn Doty of Slocomb passed from this life Friday, September 12, 2014 at her home. She was 53.

A Celebration of Life service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, in the chapel of Sorrells Funeral Home & Crematory of Slocomb. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday beginning at 2:00 p.m. and continuing until service time.

Joyce was born on July 28, 1961 in Orlando, FL to Vernell Worley Payne and the late Herman Lee Payne Sr. Joyce possessed a resilient attitude, kind and giving spirit and an outgoing personality. She loved life. Family was most important to her and she delighted in the accomplishments of her two children. In addition to being a loving mother, she adored her four grandchildren. She was loved by all and will be greatly missed.

In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her nephew, Benjamin Payne.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Amber and Daniel Kirkland, their four children: Hunter, Tyler, Braden and Emmalyn, Malvern; her son, Daniel Wiggins, Troy; mother, Vernell Payne, Malvern; three sisters: Rhonda Rivera, Daleville, Hope Sharpe (Lorin), Bonifay, FL and Heather Trammell (Timmy), Westville, FL; two brothers: Herman Lee Payne Jr. (Debbie), Marianna, FL and Kelly Payne, Bonifay, FL; several nieces, nephews and other extended family and friends.