Joy Redeker
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Celebration of Life for former Broomfield resident, Carolyn Joy Redeker, age 84, of Austin, Texas, will be at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, August 21, 2021, at the Jackson Funeral Home Chapel in Frederick, Oklahoma with Glenn Redeker officiating. Burial will follow in the Frederick Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Jackson Funeral Home. She went to be with her Lord on Thursday, August 12, 2021.
Joy was born September 22, 1936, in Frederick, Oklahoma to Earl and Eunice (Mershon) Cunningham. She married John A. Redeker, on August 17, 1956, in Frederick. Joy and John were married for sixty-three years when John passed away on February 22, 2018.
She spent most of her years teaching at Kohl Elementary in Broomfield, Colorado. She taught for forty years before retiring. Some of Joy's closest friends were made while in their Broomfield church in the '60s, including her best friend, Shirley. While teaching, she completed her M.Ed, then in 1980, her D.Ed in Reading, from Colorado State University.
She is survived by her daughter, Kathy Redeker Golden of Austin, Texas, as well as being Nana to one grandson, Breckenridge Golden of Chicago, Illinois. She also leaves behind her sister's only daughter Marilyn Mullins Brissett, of St. Thomas, VI.
She was proceeded in death by her parents, her sister, June Mullins, and her husband, John, that absolutely loved her.
An online guestbook is available at, www.jacksonfuneral.net