Joyce Marie Ziegler

Joyce Marie Ziegler

Joyce Marie Ziegler, age 72, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, at the Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kan. She was born March 10, 1946, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Joseph Marvin Taylor and Geneva Frances Hall Taylor. She graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1964. She married William “Bill” Ziegler on Aug. 12, 1967, in Fort Scott. She worked for Western Insurance and later American States Insurance in Fort Scott for many years. She then worked for Walmart briefly before working at Peerless Products her last 15 years before retirement. Joyce enjoyed playing pool, gardening, reading novels, and baking cookies in bulk. She loved spending time with her grandkids and her cats.

Survivors include her husband Bill of the home; two children, Lisa Marie Ziegler, and Dennis Ziegler and wife Lisa, all of Fort Scott; four grandchildren, Nakesha Young, Keagen Young, Tristen Ziegler, and Peyton Ziegler; two great-grandchildren, Kynden Miller and Kaesyn Johnson; two sisters, Leanna Taylor, Fort Scott, and Nancy Holt and husband Kenny, Uniontown, Kan.; two brothers, Marvin Taylor and wife Dorothy, Fort Scott, and Kenny Blake and wife Roann, Fort Scott; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a brother, Richard Taylor; and her parents.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the Marmaton Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Memorials are suggested to Lee’s Paws and Claws and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, P.O. Box 347, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.