Funeral services for Joyeline Stearns Costen, 88, Tipton, will be at 10:30 am Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in the First Christian Church, Altus, OK, with Jim Brown, Former Minister and George Dosher, Minister officiating. Joyeline passed away Thursday, July 11, 2013 at her home in Tipton. Burial will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Snyder under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home of Snyder. ** The Family will greet friends Tuesday evening at the funeral home from 6pm until 8pm ** She was born March 6, 1925 on the family farm near Tipton, Oklahoma to Francis Ivan and Thelma (McGehee) Stearns. She attended Laing Consolidated Number One in Tillman County and graduated in 1943. She received her BA in 1947 from Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and her MA in 1978 from the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Joyeline taught in the area at Tipton, Laing Consolidated Number One and four years in Mountain Park. On June 18, 1948, Joyeline married Joe Kenner Costen. The two lived in Snyder for five years. In 1953 they moved to the Muleshoe area of Texas where Joyeline taught in Friona, Texas for three years and the Muleshoe Independent School District for 34 years. Joyeline was a member and officer as well as serving in various chairmanships of the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Muleshoe Classroom Teachers Association, Texas State Teachers Association, Muleshoe State Teachers Association, National Education Association, Epsilon Delta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society, International and Iota Conclave of Kappa Kappa Iota. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Anna Lee Chapter) and the Rebecca Lodge. She was a member of the Women's Study Clubs in Snyder, Altus and Muleshoe. Joe and Joyeline were members of The First Christian Church of Muleshoe in which they served in various capacities. Joyeline was currently a member of the First Christian Church in Altus. They moved to Tillman County in 2008 to live on the ranch which was homesteaded by Joyeline's grandfather, Charles Oran Stearns. She is survived by her husband of 65 years, brothers Neil & Dorothea Stearns, Charles & Lois Stearns, nieces Cheri & Bill Irwin, Laurie & David Self, and Christie & Jim Lee, nephews, Mark & Nancy Stearns, Charles O. Stearns III, Francis Edward & Danielle Stearns, sisters-in-law, Marilynn Deligans and Deanna Costen. She was preceded in death by parents, a brother Tommy Gene and 2 brothers-in-law, Tommie Costen and Jack Deligans.