Joyce Ilene Root

January 13, 1933 - July 19, 2021

Funeral services for Joyce Ilene Root will be held Friday, July 23, 2021 at 2:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Okemah. Interment will follow at the Morse Cemetery north of Okemah. Joyce Ilene Root was born January 13, 1933 in Okemah, Oklahoma to Samuel Albert Like and Opal Goldie (Butler) Like. She passed away Monday, July 19, 2021 in Okemah, Oklahoma at the age of 88. Joyce was raised in Castle and was a lifelong resident of Okfuskee County; having graduated from Okemah High School in 1951. On June 14, 1952, in Castle, she married Anthony Wayne Root; he later preceded her in death on July 19, 2004. Joyce and Wayne owned and operated the Last Chance Grocery Store from 1957 – ’60 and also the Wayne Root Peanut Company for over 20 years. She was a member of the Last Chance Baptist Church and loved taking care of her grandchildren. Also preceding her in death were her parents; three brothers, Harold, Lloyd and Marvin and one sister, Sue Massey. Survivors include her son, Kenny Wayne Root of Okemah; daughter, Rhonda Lynn Wilson and husband Danny of Okemah; four grandchildren, Derek Lynn Wilson, Dana Michelle Sessions, Mandy Ashley Miller and Lauren Rachelle St. Cyr and 15 great-grandchildren, Dylan, Hayz, Chastan and Suttan Wilson, Madison Gill, Lillie, Logan, Ryker and River Sessions, Kelbie Vass, Preston Miller, Carson Miller, Addison Jarvis, Maverick St. Cyr and Emersyn St. Cyr. Services will be under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home and officiated by Rev. David Hamilton. Online condolences may be made at www.ParksBrothersFuneralHome.com.