Gloria Joy Beuoy, of Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, passed away at 2:55 a.m. on Saturday, July 8, 2023, at Grace Village Healthcare at the age of 93.
She was born on March 29, 1930, in Eaton, Indiana, to Ruth Jeanne (De Vay) Gibson and Earl H. Gibson. Joy graduated from Eaton High School in 1947. On April 14, 1962, she married William Eugene Beuoy. They were blessed with 56 years of marriage together before Bill passed away on May 25, 2018.
Joy worked for Indiana Bell Telephone for 30 years in Muncie. After retirement she and her husband moved from Muncie to North Webster. Then they spent a year at Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Ky., where he taught school and she managed the handcraft store. Later, they led several work mission trips from North Webster UMC and traveled with the NOMADS doing volunteer disaster relief work throughout the south during the winter. Joy always kept busy and very involved in the communities she lived in. She was the past president of United Methodist Women, North Webster UMC; served on the board of the Senior Prime Life Enrichment Center in North Webster for five years; she belonged to the PEO Chapter EJ in Syracuse, where she served as chaplain from 2009 to 2012 and she enjoyed being a member of the Warsaw Kiwanis Club. She enjoyed the fellowship of her church family as a member of Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Joy loved reading, sewing, cooking, traveling and enjoyed seeing all of God’s beauty wherever she was. More than anything she dearly loved her family and will forever be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
She leaves behind her son, James Beuoy, Akron, Ohio; three daughters: K. Elaine (Bruce) Libey, Urbana, Ohio; Peggy (David) Liles, Raleigh, N.C.; Melissa (Mark) Warner, Warsaw; and two stepchildren, Rebecca Ortner, Bettendorf, Iowa; and Jay (Debra) Beuoy, Great Bend, Kan. Also surviving are 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Bill Beuoy; sister, Marjorie Joan Rector; a half sister and three half brothers.
Friends and family may visit from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 14 at Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, 225 Argonne Road, Warsaw. Joy’s life will be celebrated with a service at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 15 at Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 210 S. High St., Warsaw, and officiated by Rev. Aaron Klein. A graveside service will follow at 2 p.m. at Mount Tabor Cemetery in Muncie and officiated by Rev. Jay Beuoy.
Memorial donations may be directed to Central Appalachian Missionary Conference, PO Box 88, Big Creek, KY 40914; or to Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 210 S. High St., Warsaw, IN 46580.
Online condolences may be sent through the funeral home’s website at www.redpathfruthfuneralhome.com.