Obituary of Joyce Elizabeth Manley Denham

Funeral services for Joyce Elizabeth Manley Denham, age 79, of Roanoke will be held on Sunday, September 11, 2016, at 2:00 PM from High Pine Baptist Church with Rev. Richie Farrow officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery with Quattlebaum Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00-8:00 PM on Saturday, September 10, 2016. Mrs. Denham will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to services beginning on Sunday. Mrs. Denham passed away Friday, September 9, 2016, at Traylor’s Nursing Center. Survivors include: two daughters, Vanessa Potts and Elizabeth Thompson, both of Stockbridge, GA; three sons, Stanley Manley of Douglasville, GA, Jeffrey P. Manley of Villa Rica, GA, and Mike Denham of Wadley, AL; 12 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and three sisters, Katheryn Vinson of Roanoke, Margaret Weathers of Forest Park, GA, and Barbara McDow of Roanoke. Pallbearers will be Jon Keith McDow, Justin Broughton, Terry Puckett, Mark Weathers, Roger Hester, Rev. Joel Scott, and Barry Johnson. A Randolph County native, Mrs. Denham was born on August 14, 1937, the daughter of James P. and Myrtis Brown Mitchell. She was a member of High Pine Baptist Church and worked as a seamstress for Palm Beach. Mrs. Denham was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Herbert Denham; one son, Lincoln Manley; one stepson, Jimmy Denham; two grandsons, David Manley and Shane Pinkard; and a sister, Sara Knight.