Joyce Ann Hayes Hester, 76, Cookeville, Tennessee and a native of Albany, passed away Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. She was a member of Cookeville First United Methodist Church, daughter of the late Jonathan Edwin and Effie Wright Pickens and was also preceded in death by a sister, Peggy Winningham and five brothers, Bruce, Jack, J.E., Wayne and Charles Franklin Pickens.

She is survived by a daughter and granddaughter, Michelle Hayes and Courtney Cuevas, both of Pass Christian, MS; a sister, Patsy Skipworth, Detroit, Michigan; a brother, Joe Pickens, Albany; also several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 1 p.m. at Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home with final resting place in Crest Lawn Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the Joyce Hester Memorial Scholarship Fund at TTU, P.O. Box 1915, Cookeville, TN 38505.

Arrangements were made through Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home of Cookeville.