NEWPORT NEWS
Joyce L. Fisher-Coggin, 70, lost her battle with cancer on Wednesday, June 9, 2010. She was born in Brookneal, VA on February 23, 1940.
Joyce enjoyed her flowers, laying in the sun, fishing, sunsets over the James River, and coffee time with family.
She was preceded in death by, her sister Delores Rochelle and her brothers Jerel Smith and Carroll Lee Smith, her husbands James Frankie Fisher and Martin Gray Coggin and her son James Frankie Fisher, Jr.
She was the daughter of the late Robert L. Smith and Margaret A. Smith.
She is survived by her daughter Debra S. Nair McIntyre and husband, Kenny; her sons Billy Carroll McIntyre and Lloyd Dean Fisher; her grandchildren Dereck Thomas, Amber Nair, Angie Cheek, DJ Fisher &; ten great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
She is mourned by her many friends and neighbors, and particularly by Loretta Harden.
Graveside services will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday, June 18, 2010 at the Hampton National Cemetery adjacent to Hampton Univ. A repass will
follow at the Parkview Church of God Family Life Center, at 1122 Briarfield Road, Newport News.
Special thanks to family, friends, and the medical staff at Riverside Hospital. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Virginia. Online condolences may be made at www.cremate.org.