March 19, 1932 – July 26, 2022
Joy Lenora (Freeman) Decker Harrison, age 90, formerly of Big Spring, passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
Funeral Services will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, July 30, 2022, at Big Spring Full Gospel Fellowship with Rev. Billy Guy officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, July 29, 2022, at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home.
She was born March 19, 1932, in Seagraves, Texas, to parents Claude Chester Freeman and Nancy Jane (Warrick) Freeman and married George Decker in 1951 in San Antonio, Texas. After George’s passing in 1990, Joy married Clinton Harrison in 1992.
Joy grew up on her daddy’s cotton farm and picked cotton at a young age. She had rheumatic fever and had been bedridden for many years. She was healed by Grace, as she would often say in her testimony. Joy graduated from Denver City High School in 1951 and a short time later met George. After they were married they lived in New Hampshire and San Antonio, Texas, before they made Big Spring, Texas, their hometown in 1963. Joy worked at Webb Air Force Base as a civilian until its closing in 1977. She was the Director of the Big Spring Senior Center until she retired in 1992. She loved the Lord and was a member of several churches in Big Spring, Assembly of God, First Assembly of God, and Full Gospel Church.
Survivors include Dollene Reeves (sister); children, Carolyn (Decker) Kearney, Eddie Decker (Melissa), and Tim Decker (Debbie); and grandchildren, Steve Decker (Michelle), Scott Hendricks (Carrie), Travis Slemp, Taylor Decker, and Brooklyn Decker; great-grandchildren. Justin Baur (Aubrey), Tasha Woodson (Jon), Jordan Decker, Tevin Decker, Dylan Hendricks, Kaitlin Hendricks, and Makayla Hendricks; and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents Claude and Nancy Freeman; her sisters, Jane Long, Frankie Minor, Clovis McDonald; and her brothers, Claude Freeman, Lomas Freeman, and Billy Jo Freeman.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to a charity of your choosing or to Big Spring Full Gospel Fellowship Church.
