JOANNE VANCLEAVE Obituary – Dec. 19, 1937 – Jan. 31, 2022

Marion Joanne Talley VanCleave, 84, of Henderson passed away Jan. 31, 2022 at Southern Oaks Senior Living in Henderson.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, at Shackelford Funeral Directors – Crook Avenue with Neal Smith and John Talbott officiating along with Ann, Gene and B. J.  Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Crook Avenue from 5-8 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday.
The family has requested that facial coverings be worn for visitation and funeral services.
Memorials may be made to the Oak Grove Perpetual Cemetery Fund c/o Patti Pickler, P. O. Box 448, Henderson, TN 38340 or the Chester County Historical Society or Gideons International.
She was born Dec. 19, 1937 in the Talley Store Community of Chester County, the daughter of the late Riley Allen Talley, Jr. (R.A.) and Ruth Augusta Sewell Talley. She graduated from Chester County High School in 1955 and attended Bethel College. She worked at the Cumberland Presbyterian Center in Memphis and then at First State Bank in Henderson from 1957 to 1968 and worked at Production Credit Association from 1968 until 1983.
She worked at Southwest Human Resource Agency for 30 years, retiring in July of 2014 as Cash Disbursements Clerk.
She was very active at Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church where she attended all of her life; she served in many capacities there, including piano playing and Sunday school teacher.
She also served on the committee to manage Oak Grove Cemetery.
She was a member of the Chester County Historical Society, had served on the Chester County Senior Citizen Board, was a former member of the BP&W and former Jayceete and had kept records and organized reunions for the class of 1955.
She is survived by a daughter, Ann (Tommy) Shearon of Jackson; two sons, B. J. (Pat) VanCleave of Chesterfield and Gene Allen VanCleave of Ormond Beach, Fla.; three grandchildren, Jessica Droke, Samantha VanCleave Belisle and Sarah Droke; a brother, Dossie Talley of Henderson; and two step-grandchildren, Ginger Austin and Christy Shearon.