Joyce (Pearcy) Campbell was born in Upton, Mo., on Oct. 5, 1934, to Johnie and Maggie (Stilley) Pearcy. Four sisters and one brother completed this farm family down on Roubidoux Creek near Flat Rocks. Her older brother, Ray, taught her outdoor hobbies and skills, including rabbit and squirrel hunting, snaring sucker fish with her dad, milking cows, feeding pigs, hauling hay and learning to drive on a 1948 Jeep. Joyce also enjoyed riding her brother’s horse, Dixie, when she was younger. Well, at least until one day when she was bucked off onto a pile of rocks when a big black snake slithered spooking Dixie.
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