Joel Richardson

Joel Richardson, 74, of Murray, Ky., formerly of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002 at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.

He was a retired employee of the maintenance department of Colonial Rubber Works, a member of Poplar Spring Baptist Church and a former commercial fisherman.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Friendship Cemetery.

The family will receive visitors at 6 p.m. today at Dyersburg Funeral Home.

Survivors include his wife, Judy Copas Richardson; three daughters, Pam Ozment and husband, Bill, Alicia Sutin and husband, Todd, and Johnnie McFarland, and husband, Pat, all of Dyersburg; a son, Joel F. Robinson, and wife, Martha, of Guntown, Miss.; three stepsons, William O. Purvis and Keith Purvis, both of Dyersburg and Mark L. Purvis of Jackson; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents, John Morgan and Ivy Lee Follies Richardson; three sisters, Charlotte Hand, Gladys Peacock and Mildred Daniels; and two brothers, James Otis Richardson and Alvin Eugene Richardson.