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Mrs. Runyan provided private home healthcare for many years. She was a part-time professional truck driver with her husband for 15 years. She enjoyed horseback riding and taking care of people. She was an excellent cook and had lived in the Sedalia area all of her life.
Also surviving are two daughters, Jan Blackburn, and her husband, Paul, of Sedalia, and Shani Cooper-Rea, of Sedalia; her mother, Esther LaBille, of Sedalia; two brothers, Brad LaBille, of Sedalia, and Dennis LaBille, of Smithton; a sister, Barbara White, of Sedalia; and four grandchildren, Andrea Rea, Jake Blackburn, Connor Blackburn and Cooper Rea.
She was predeceased by her father.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, September 30, 2006, at Heckart/Gillespie Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Tony Chapman officiating.
There will be no family visitation. The body was cremated. Condolences may be sent online at www.heckart-gillespie.com
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the family in care of the funeral home.
Joyce Lynn Runyan, 55, of Sedalia, died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, at her home.
She was born Dec. 5, 1950, in Kansas City, a daughter of Joe and Esther Hubbert LaBille. On March 20, 1981, in Hay Springs, Nebraska, she was married to Donald Edward Runyan, who survives of the home.
