Joy Karn

Joy Karn, 68, Bismarck, died May 16, 2008. Services will be held at 2:00 pm Monday at First United Methodist Church, Bismarck with Rev. Kermit Culver and Rev. Walter Schott officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Bismarck. Visitation will be held from 3:00 pm until 9:00 pm Sunday at Parkway Funeral Service, 2330 Tyler Parkway, Bismarck. Family will be receiving guests from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. A prayer service will be held at 7:00 pm Sunday at Parkway Funeral Service. Visitation will also be one hour prior to services at the church. Joy Ann Herren was born March 13, 1940, in Columbus, OH, to Clayson and Marian Roseberry Herren. She was raised in the small town of Lilly Chapel, OH. Joy graduated from Fairfield High School in 1957 and attended Columbus Business College in Columbus, OH, where she received secretarial training. On June 26, 1960, Joy married James F. Karn at the First United Methodist Church in Lilly Chapel. Joy and Jim lived in both Columbus and Wooster, OH, while Jim was attending Ohio State University. In 1966, they moved to North Platte, NE and in 1976 they moved to Bismarck, ND. Her "retirement" job was as part-time secretary at the First United Methodist Church in Bismarck, where she has been a member for 31 years. Between secretarial jobs she worked as an Avon representative in North Platte, then later at the Cheddar Box and Dayton's Department Store in Bismarck. Joy was a P.E.O. sister of the BA chapter in Bismarck. Most of all, Joy worked at being a fantastic wife, a great mom to two terrific daughters and a grandma to four little gifts grandchildren from God. In addition to being a doting grandma, she loved to travel, enjoyed being with friends, doing scrapbooking, as well as, various other craft projects. In the last year of her life she discovered she had a talent for making jewelry and took great pleasure in combing through all the bead stores and hobby shops for interesting and eye catching beads and baubles for her creations. Most of her jewelry went to Arizona for Anita to sell, with all of the proceeds going to support the American Cancer Society's efforts to find a cure for cancer. Joy will always be remembered for her kind, loving and thoughtful ways, her perpetual smile, infectious laugh and her boundless energy. She will be greatly missed by her husband, Jim, and daughters, Anita Phillips Brian, Glendale, AZ and Renee Clarke Ron, Bismarck, ND, and her grandchildren, Kylee, Jaycie, Brody and Delani Clarke, Bismarck, ND. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clayson and Marian Herren.

Joy Karn

March 13, 1940 - May 16, 2008