{"id":2668,"date":"2020-01-17T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2020-08-30T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T15:09:43","slug":"mcdonald-funeral-home-obituary-joyce-ellen-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/mcdonald-funeral-home-obituary-joyce-ellen-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson, Joyce Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Joyce Ellen Richardson<\/strong><\/em>, of Hohenwald passed away on Thursday at Maury Regional Hospital at the age of 73. She was born in Bangor, ME to the late Major Albert Luis Hamel &amp; Jacqueline Malita Kelly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Her father served 35 years with the military, eventually retiring.\u00a0 Her brother also served in the Army for 20+ years, receiving 2 purple hearts during his tour of Vietnam for taking a bullet while going into enemy lines to save men from a burning tank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Following in the footsteps of her father and brother, Joyce served a tour with the Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam War.\u00a0 She was responsible for returning deceased veterans back to the United States to their respective family members. Often times, she would have to return remains or body parts only identifiable by their tattoos. After leaving the Air Force, she worked for Saturn\/GM in the Shipping and Receiving Department.\u00a0 She would eventually retire from GM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">After retirement, she loved going to beach and watching the dolphins. She thought dolphins were the greatest thing ever. She also enjoyed going to the casino. She would make monthly trips to Tunica, (mainly for the free room and buffet). But more than anything she loved her kids, grand kids and great grandchild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Survivors include son, Bruce Blanchette &amp; Ray (Dawn) Blanchette of Hohenwald; daughter, Vicki (Doug) Blanchette of Hohenwald; three Grandchildren,\u00a0 Christopher, Brandon &amp; Jacqueline Blanchette, one Great Grandchild William Blanchette,\u00a0 nephew, Joseph Hamel of TX and niece, Alicia Hart of FL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She is preceded in death by both parents, brother, Bruce Hamel and nephew, David Hamel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Her wishes were to be cremated with her cremains scattered at sea;\u00a0 the family will honor those wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Ellen Richardson, of Hohenwald passed away on Thursday at Maury Regional Hospital at the age of 73. She was born in Bangor, ME to the late Major Albert Luis Hamel &amp; Jacqueline Malita Kelly. Her father served 35 years with the military, eventually retiring.\u00a0 Her brother also served in the Army for 20+ years, receiving 2 purple hearts during&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/mcdonald-funeral-home-obituary-joyce-ellen-richardson\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,247,2111],"tags":[2729,2728,333,570,262],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burial-records","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","category-obituaries","tag-blanchette","tag-hamel","tag-hart","tag-kelly","tag-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}