Visitation will be held at Vondel Smith South Lake, 4000 S.W. 119th Street, Oklahoma City. Visitation times will be Friday, September 23, 2022 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. the family will be present to greet friends from 6-8 PM at the funeral home.

Services to honor & celebrate Joyce's life will be held on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Shartel Church of God, 11600 S Western Ave, Oklahoma City.

Interment will follow at Heritage Burial Park at South Lakes, 4000 S.W. 119th Street, Oklahoma Cit

In lieu of flowers, Joyce has requested donations be made to: Cookson Hills Christian Children's Home, 60416 Hwy 10, Kansas, OK 74347 (www.cooksonhills.org).

Joyce Carol (Dragoo) Curnutt was born November 4, 1939, to Marshall and Agnes Dragoo at her family's rural home close to the town of Lindsay, Oklahoma. After a long battle with cancer, she passed away on September 20, 2022 while surrounded by family at her home in Oklahoma City, OK.

When she was five years old, Joyce's family moved to Purcell, Oklahoma. After graduating from high school in 1957, she moved to the YWCA in Oklahoma City and began working for Southwestern Bell as a Telephone Operator. After six weeks of listening to impatient people cuss at her if she took too long to connect their calls, she decided that was enough! She moved on to selling toys at the John A. Brown store and mink coats at the Peyton-Marcus clothing store.

In the autumn of 1957 she went on a blind date and met the love of her life, Oscar Curnutt. On March 21, 1958, they were married in Oklahoma City. They spent much of their married life in Edmond, Oklahoma, raising their two girls, Liz & Kathy. After their daughters were married, Oscar and Joyce moved to an acreage east of Oklahoma City and spent a number of years restoring a small farm outside of Luther, Oklahoma. They moved back to the south side of OKC in 2007 to be closer to family.

Joyce was lovingly referred to by her grandkids as MooMoo. In addition to her lifelong commitment to being a housewife, mother, and grandmother, Joyce also spent a number of years working at the Oklahoma Tax Commission as well as a few years working at the Christian Supply Bookstore.

While they lived in Edmond, Sunday nights often found a large group of students from Midwest Christian College gathered at the Curnutt house for fellowship and a great home-cooked meal that Joyce would provide for her "adopted" kids. She also spent time over the years sending personal birthday cards to children at Cookson Hills Christian Children's Home in northeast Oklahoma.

Joyce and Oscar were long-time members and mainstays of Mimosa Heights Christian Church. They later transferred to Edmond Christian Church before finally moving to Shartel Church of God in Moore, where Joyce remains a member.

Joyce is survived by her daughters Liz (married to Kevin Gunter) and Kathy (married to Dusty Rubeck); her grandchildren: Anna (Gunter), married to John Fullington, Levi Gunter, married to Kaitlyn, Whitney (Rubeck), married to Rod Wallace, and TJ Rubeck, married to Avery Rubeck; great-grandchildren Solomon and Mercy-Rae Fullington, Carter and Kendall Wallace, and Heidi Gunter. She is also survived by her brother Alton Dragoo, as well as her sisters Marilyn Womack and Shirley Edington.

Joyce was preceded in death by Oscar, her husband of 56 years, her parents, her sister Loraine Grice, and a brother who died as an infant.

In lieu of flowers, Joyce has requested donations be made to: Cookson Hills Christian Children's Home, RR 3 Box 200, Kansas, OK 74347 (www.cooksonhills.org).

Visitation will be held at Vondel Smith South Lake, 4000 S.W. 119th Street, Oklahoma City. Visitation times will be Friday, September 23, 2022 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. the family will be present to greet friends from 6-8 PM at the funeral home.

Services to honor & celebrate Joyce's life will be held on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Shartel Church of God, 11600 S Western Ave, Oklahoma City.

Interment will follow at Heritage Burial Park at South Lakes, 4000 S.W. 119th Street, Oklahoma City.