Mrs. Joan Riddle Priestley

Joan Riddle Priestley, 79, of Richards, passed away Thursday, January 22nd at West Houston Methodist Hospital in Katy. Visitation will be held on Sunday, January 25, 2015 from 2:00 – 4:00pm Nobles Funeral Chapel in Navasota, Texas. Services will be held at Bays Chapel United Methodist Church on Monday, January 26, 2015 at 2:00pm in Richards. Interment will follow in the Priestley/Scholz Family Cemetery. Rev. Eric Dehmer will officiate. Arrangements are under the direction of Nobles Funeral Chapel.
Mrs. Priestley was born in New Albany, Indiana, on June 10, 1935 to Lyon and Sarah (Hartenstein) Riddle. She met and married Guy Priestley on April 4, 1953. Together they raised three children.
She is survived by daughter Sally Jo Scholz and husband Dieter; son Jeff Priestley and wife Susan; grandchildren Bobby and Jennifer Priestley, Chanda Cheney, Blake and Jennifer Scholz, Kristie and Nick Schilling, Lauren Priestley and fiancé Brandon Chambers, Kevin Scholz and Meghan Priestley; great-grandchildren Kayla, Karra, Thomas and Hannah Cheney, Logan and Luke Priestly and Caitlin and Courtney Scholz.
Joan was preceded in death by her husband, Guy Thomas Priestley, Jr.; and son, Guy Thomas Priestley III.
Pallbearers are Blake Scholz, Kevin Scholz, Brandon Chambers, Bobby Priestley, Nick Schilling and Rudy Zuurbier.
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