Services for Mrs. Joyce Johnston Nettles of Brookhaven are 11:00 am Thursday, December 16, 2021,

at Riverwood with visitation from 5:00-8:00 pm on Wednesday at Riverwood. Burial will be at Gum Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Joyce Johnston Nettles, 85, went to be with her Lord on December 12, 2021.

She was born on April 4, 1935, to the late Van Martin Johnston and Susie Floy Johnston.

Mrs. Nettles was the owner of Joyce’s Fashions and was a Beauty Consultant for Beauti Control Cosmetics.

She was a member of Gum Grove Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, James “Rayford” Nettles; sons, James Rayford Nettles, Jr. Malcolm Tony Nettles;

brothers, Sidney Johnston, Martin Johnston, Jr; and sisters, Alene Cunningham, Neveline Yeomans and Lena Mae Smith.

Those left to cherish her memory are her son, Eric Ray Nettles and wife Tawana and two grandchildren,

Kevin Ray Nettles and Erica “Renἁ” Nettles Touchstone and husband Garret.

She will be missed by all that knew her.