Joyce Penney

Mrs. Joyce Penney, age 79 of Kenton, Tennessee, passed away from this life on Thursday, January 2, 2014, at the Golden Living Center in Union City. Funeral services for Mrs. Penney will be conducted on Monday, January 6, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. at the Kenton First Baptist Church with Dr. Charles Pratt and Bro. Wayne Perkins officiating. Interment will follow in Sunnyside Cemetery of Kenton, Tennessee. She was born October 6, 1934, in Obion County, Tennessee; devoted daughter of the late Vermon C. and Myrtle (nee West) Hanks. Mrs. Penney was a banking supervisor with First Nation Wide Bank in Northbrooke, Illinois. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Kenton, where she was a Sunday school teacher for many years. Mrs. Penney was the beloved wife of Finley McKinley Penney; loving mother of Randy Owens (Pamela), John Penney (Cathy), Kathy Bassette (David), and Sandra Penney; dear sister of Inez (Billy Jack) Edmiston; and loving grandma to all grandchildren and great-grandchildren and fond aunt to many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her two sisters, Laverne Cooper and Lois Gordon and her parents. The family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m. until service time. Karnes & Son Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Mrs. Joyce Penney.