Joyce Ann Domabyl

Joyce Ann (Duray) Domabyl, 86 of La Crescent passed away peacefully on Monday, March 18, 2019 at Bethany St Joseph Care Center, La Crosse WI. Joyce was born on February 9, 1933 in Chicago to Fred and Elsie (Swiontek) Duray.

She attended High School and Blackburn College in Chicago. She married Richard Domabyl on February 11, 1956. A few years later they relocated to La Crescent MN with 4 children in tow. They had 2 more children shortly after. She worked for Montgomery Wards in the Catalog Department, was a waitress for 35 years between the Commadore Club in La Crescent and then at the Holiday Inn in La Crosse. She later worked as a phone operator at Sprint in Winona MN until she retired in 1998.

In her early years Joyce would paint beautiful winter and Holiday scenes on windows of many businesses. Joyce loved knitting and crocheting and going to the Fitting Knit Shop to learn new things and get help on where she went wrong with her stitches. She would make beautiful scarves and gifts for all her family. She loved to take rides up and down the Mississippi river to look for eagles, swans and pelicans. She enjoyed the beautiful flowers and birds that would come into the yard. She enjoyed canning, going out for breakfast on Wednesday mornings, gathering with her coffee clutch ladies once a month to chat and meeting the Sprint ladies the first Thursday of the month for lunch. Joyce was a very kind hearted and caring person. We will miss her quick wit and laughter! She found beauty in all the seasons and everyone she met! She will be greatly missed.

Joyce is survived by her brother Fred (fiance'Dottie) Duray, her five children, Gail of La Crescent, Janet of La Crescent, Mark (Brenda) of Black River Falls, WI, David of Oregon, WI and Kurt (Kim) of La Crescent, three grandchildren, Joyce, Jackie and Dylan, her five step-grandchildren Taylor, James, Steven, Patrick, and Nicolas and five great-step-grandchildren Autumn, Meadow, Lylly Rose, Colt and Fenix and great-great-step-grandchild Andre and nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents Fred and Elsie Duray of Hayward, her husband Richard, her daughter Nancy, her grandson Devin and sister-in-law Ruthann Duray.

A prayer service will be held on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 2:00 PM at the Schumacher-Kish Funeral & Cremation Services of La Crescent, 111 S Oak Street. Rev. Gregory Havel will officiate. Burial will be in the Crucifixion Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from 11:00 AM until the time of services.  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to - St Judes www.stjude.org/donate/donate-to-st-jude.