Joyce Boner Furrow Obituary

Joyce Boner Furrow attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, IA. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about Joyce Boner Furrow.

Graduation Year	Class of 1973
Date of Passing	Mar 20, 2002
About	Former resident killed by husband - Courtney Brummer, staff writer Former Council Bluffs resident and Thomas Jefferson High School graduate Joyce (Boner) Furrow was remembered by family as a loving person who was taken too soon. She died at her home in Pensacola, Fla, on March 20th after she had been shot numerous times by her estranged husband, Richard E. Hoover, 52. Hoover later turned the .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun on himself and died of a single-gunshot would to the head. "We still can't get over it," Joyce Furrow's sister-in-law, Melinda Boner, of Council Bluffs, said. "It's a terrible thing to happen." Joyce Furrow, 47, lived in Council Bluffs before moving to Florida about 20 years ago and still has several family members here. She was the youngest child and only girl among four brothers. "They spoiled Joyce rotten," Boner said. "But she didn't act like it. She was a good person and had a wonder personality." Joyce Furrow, who was a hair dresser, and Hoover had been married less than a year and separated for a little more than a month. Boner said Joyce had never expressed any fear of Hoover to her family members here, and there was no history of domestic violence to the best of her knowledge. Her family in Council Bluffs had never met Hoover. Boner also said Joyce Furrow had learned from a neighbor that Hoover had a gun, and that she had changed the locks on her house. "Her mother told her to be careful," she said. "But she never appeared to be scared of him." She was the mother of three children, including Jason Larsen of Council Bluffs, and helped raise a daughter from a previous marriage to Keith Furrow, of Pensacola Beach, Fla. The two children who lived with Joyce, Josh and Tashina, happened to be spending the week with Keith Furrow when she was killed. "She was a good person, and everyone loved her," Boner said. "I had never seen her get mad or nothing." Funeral services are to be held in Pensacola, but a memorial service in Council Bluffs is pending. "She had a lot of friends, and she was a well-liked girl who was very easy-going," Boner said. Article/Obituary published 3/23/2002, p 1, Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil.