Graveside Services for Joy Zell Yeckley Messick, 88, will be at 2:00 pm Friday in Fairlawn Cemetery, Snyder, OK with Rev. Ken Baden, Lawton, OK, officiating.

Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Mrs. Messick died Sunday, October 20, 2019 in Edmond, Oklahoma.  Joy was born April 17, 1931 in Guymon, Oklahoma to Corda C. "Pete" and Callie Hargrove Yeckley.  She moved to a farm east of Snyder when she was three years old and attended Snyder schools.  She married Tommie Lee Messick March 13, 1947 in Vernon, Texas.  She worked in Snyder at the Red Cross Drug and Sharps and Beason's Café, Woolworth 5 & 10 in California, Kerrs Dept. Store in Oklahoma City, Montgomery Wards in Lawton, and retired from Bealls Dept. Store in Lawton, Oklahoma.

She and Tommie moved to Lawton, Oklahoma in 1965, where she lived until 2017.  She lived in Edmond, Oklahoma from 2017 to 2019. Joy was awarded with the Ambassador Award from Lawton for promoting the city of Lawton.  She worked for many years at the Election Boards in Lawton.  Joy cherished and loved her family and enjoyed every moment with family gatherings.  She loved shopping, embroidering, sewing, crafts, decoupaging, gardening, planting flowers, and feeding birds.  She collected postcards, thimbles, handkerchiefs, perfume bottles, Gone with the Wind items, music boxes, and angels.  She never met a stranger and loved life to the fullest.

She is survived by her two children, Joy Larece McAdams and husband, Bud, of Edmond, Oklahoma and Tommie Lee Messick Jr. of Tampa, Florida; five Grandchildren: Shane Kelly and wife Celeste of Lawton, Oklahoma, Tommie Lee Messick, III and wife Christine of Charlotte, North Carolina, Julian Evan Messick of  Stillwater, Oklahoma, Katy Marie Messick of Independence, Kansas, Jennifer Ann Messick of Edmond, Oklahoma; two Step-grandchildren: Tony McAdams and wife Sarah of Duncan, Oklahoma, Jonathan McAdams of Frisco, Texas; two Great-Grandchildren: Dylan Kelly of Lawton, Oklahoma and Adelyn Kelly of Lawton, Oklahoma; three Step-Great Grandchildren: Derrick McAdams of Duncan, Oklahoma, Cameron McAdams of Duncan, Oklahoma, and Kaylee McAdams of York, Pennsylvania, and numerous other nieces, nephews, relatives, friends, and special lifelong friend, Debbie Schacher of Lawton, Oklahoma.

Joy was preceded in death by her parents, Callie and Pete Yeckley, husband Tommie Lee Messick Sr., son, Ronnie Lee Messick, Step -Grandson Stephen McAdams, sister, Reba Hudson, sister and brother-in-law, Freida and Boyd Bartley, sister and brother-in-law, Lavonda and Jack Welch.

An online guest book and sympathy cards are available at www.beckerfuneral.com.