JOYCE BRAUDAWAY

CARL JUNCTION- Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar for Joyce LeAnn Braudaway, 54, Carl Junction, who died Monday night, March 13, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin. Burial was in Sheldon Cemetery.

Memorial contributions are suggested to Missouri Southern Scholarship Fund or Irwin Community Church, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences and memories may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include her husband, Deal Braudaway, of the home; her parents, Marion and Leila Giger, Lamar; four sons, Austin Phipps, Portland, Ore., Casey Phipps and wife Jo, Tahlequah, Okla., Brent Phipps and wife Amy, Washington, D.C. and Justin Braudaway, Carl Junction; a granddaughter, Trinity Phipps, Carl Junction; a brother, Richard Giger, Lamar and a sister-in-law, Chris Hembree, Tampa, Fla.

Mrs. Braudaway was born April 26, 1962, in Lamar, to Marion and Leila (Clark) Giger. She grew up in Barton County, where she was involved in 4-H, was a 1980 graduate of Lamar High School and worked at Lamar Greenhouse. A lifelong learner, she enrolled in Missouri Southern, where she worked as a student account manager, earning a bachelor's degree in 1997. She had also worked in student services at Franklin Tech and as a para-legal at a law firm. She was a member of First Baptist Church while living in Lamar and currently attended Christ's Church of Oronogo.

She married Deal Braudaway on April 30, 1994.