The life and legacy of Joyce Faye Mathis Eller did not end with her untimely death. She affected and inspired thousands of individuals along her life’s circuitous journey and her legacy of love and care will be honored and celebrated by family and friends for many years to come.

Joyce left this earthly life on March 30th at the age of 69 after years of battling the devastating effects of liver and kidney disease.

She is survived by her husband David. They were partners in life for 44 years. She is also survived by her sister Claudia Sullenger and her half-sister Connie Williams. And then there is the loving legion of nephews and nieces, great nephews and great nieces, great-great nephews and great-great nieces and friends from across the country and around the world.

Joyce was a 1972 graduate of Lewis County High School and a 1974 graduate of Columbia State Community College. Thereafter, she began her ministry of comfort, caring, and healing, working tirelessly as a nurse for 50 years to bring peace to the bodies of the aged and ailing.

She accepted Christ at an early age, and she sat on the front row of the Antioch Church of Christ at 5:30 a.m. service, faithfully until her sickness succeeded in keeping her from doing so. She was God’s ambassador and her mission and her very real calling was spreading unconditional love.

Having a lust for life and dreams of adventure, exploration, and meaningful connections, she was a great example of one who chose to live life to the fullest, finding a life partner who also had dreams of world exploration and glorious adventure. They were an inseparable pair and a match truly made in heaven. In good times and bad, thick and thin, hell and high water they devotedly walked each mile of their winding journey together and with great love and admiration for each other. In the final years of her life, she joined her husband as his partner and colleague as he continued his lifelong field studies and investigations into paranormal mysteries. She is now exploring the greatest of all paranormal mysteries.

Her passion was travel and her appetite for this was never satiated, always longing to see more and more of God’s glorious creation, every journey inspiring other journeys.

Another of her great joys was to spend time with her large family and her many friends. In her world, there were never too many loved ones in a room and there were never enough babies to love, kiss, and hold.

A visitation with family and friends will be held on Saturday, April 13 from 9:00 a.m.to 1:00 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Hohenwald.

Funeral Services will immediately follow, beginning at 1:00 p.m. with burial to follow in the Whitehead Cemetery in Waynesboro.

In lieu of flowers, we ask mourners and those who loved Joyce to consider a donation to “Alive Hospice”, In Memory of Joyce. This can be done via the following link: https://www.alivehospice.org/get-involved/give/ or by mailing a check, marked “In Memory of Joyce Eller” to: Alive Hospice, 1718 Patterson St., Nashville, TN 37203.