Joyce Inez Salter Baynard

Joyce Baynard, age 90, passed away on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. Services will be held at Memorial Heights Baptist Church, on Sunday, October 4, 2020, with Reverend Lewis Kiger officiating. Visitation will begin at 1:30 p.m. with funeral services to follow at 2:30 p.m. Interment will take place at Perry Memorial Gardens immediately following the services. The family respectfully asks that everyone practice social distancing and to please wear a mask. Memorial Contributions can be made in memory of Joyce to Memorial Heights Baptist Church, 521 General Courtney Hodges Blvd., Perry, Georgia 31069. Joyce was born in Hapeville, Georgia, to the late Clarence Benjamin, Sr. and Lydia Elois Cohran. In 1969, she moved to Perry and raised her family. She worked as the vice president for Baynard’s Tree Service. Joyce loved working in the yard and tending to her roses. She loved word search puzzles, keeping up with family and friends via her Facebook page on her I-Pad. Joyce loved her family, her babies, and especially her grandbabies. She’s been a member of Memorial Heights Baptist Church since 1973. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her loving husband of forty-five years, Forrest Baxter Baynard; her grandsons, JJ Andrews and Jeremy Martin; her siblings, Clarence Cohran, Jr., Irma Harper, and Doris Jenkins. Left to cherish the memories they shared with Joyce are her children; Debora Salter Duryea of Senoia, Georgia, Denise Salter Martin of Jackson, Georgia, Delores Kay Salter (Gary) Brown, of Perry, Georgia, Angela “DeeDee” Salter (Scott) Wrigley of Macon, Georgia, Lee (Melanie) Salter of Perry, Georgia; her step-children; Tommy Baynard, Ronnie Baynard, Dennis Baynard, and Vickie Morgan, all of Virginia; her grandchildren, Jamey Martin of Piedmont, South Carolina, Justin (Julie) Patrick of Senoia, Seth (April) Patrick of Monticello, Catherine (Matt) Moulton of Kathleen, Tristan Patrick of Senoia, Kaeleigh Duryea of Senoia, Stephen (Galadriel) Johnson of Hawkinsville, Matthew Salter and Mark Salter, both of Perry; multiple great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; her sister, Patricia Ann Miller of Kennessaw, and numerous cousins. Condolences for the family may be left in our online guestbook at www.watsonhunt.com. Watson-Hunt Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Joyce Inez Salter Baynard

March 5, 1930 - September 30, 2020