Lexington – Joyce H. Fever, 93, formerly of Colfax and Lexington, passed away at 9:45 am, April 24, 2025, at Arcadia Care in Watseka.

Her funeral will be held at 11:00 am, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Colfax. Pastor Dan Jassman will be officiating. Burial will be in Lexington Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 10-11:00 am, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, also at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the donor's choice of charity.

Joyce was born February 8, 1932, in Virden, the daughter of Harvey and Margaret (Rouse) Holloway. She married Wallace D. Fever on December 31, 1950, in Bloomington. He died June 29, 1977.

Surviving are two daughters Lora (Steve) Schumm of Colfax and Robin Gilmore of Gridley; son, Max D. (Patsy) Fever of Chenoa; grandchildren, Brian (Tracy Schumm, Derek (Holly) Schumm, Sarah (Gwen) Fleming, Annie (David) Kunter, and Carl (Natasha) Fever; great-grandchildren, Ethan, Brianna, Liam, and Camdyn Schumm, Charlie Kunter, Fiona and Quinn Blythe, and Christian and Nicholas Fever.

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and one granddaughter, Angela Jean Fever.

Mrs. Fever was a lifelong resident of the Lexington/Colfax area and was a 1950 graduate of Lexington High School.

For several years she was employed as assistant to Doctor Max Hersey and a practical nurse at the Lexington Nursing Home. Also she was a former writer for the Lexington Unit Journal. She received three Honorary Associate Editors awards for her articles in the Bloomington Pantagraph. She served for a time as secretary at the Church of Christ Uniting in Lexington. Later in life she worked with home bound patients for Family Services in El Paso, TX. She retired in 1983 due to illness.

In earlier years she studied voice at Wesleyan University. She sang on Bloomington WJBC radio, The Moody Bible Institute Radio, WLS and the Morris B. Sachs Hour in Chicago. She also performed with the Miller Park Band and many area churches  and the Scottish Rite Temple Cancer Drives in Bloomington.