Individual Details
Joyce Maxine Wesson
(12 Apr 1928 - 8 Nov 2012)
Joye Maxine (Wesson) Hasson
Joye Wesson Hasson, 84, of Winnie, Texas, died Thursday, November 8, 2012, at The Arboretum, Winnie.
She was born on April 12, 1928, in Meridian Mississippi, to Margaret and Arthur Wesson.
Joye married Vester "Mack" Hasson, Jr. on June 23, 1946, and in 1954, they moved to the Golden Triangle with their three sons. Joye was very active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served faithfully in every auxiliary during her lifetime, from Cub Scout Den Mother to Beaumont Stake Relief Society President. With her husband, she served a mission for the Church in Morristown, New Jersey, in the early 1990s. Additionally, they worked together for several years in the Houston, Texas Temple.
Professionally, Joye worked as a secretary in the Beaumont Independent School District, and later became the executive secretary to the Vice Chancellor at Lamar University, Beaumont. She served for a time as the president of the Southeast Texas Educational Secretaries Association. Joye volunteered with the Pink Ladies at the Winnie Medical Center, and was president of that organization for a while. She was an active volunteer for the Republican Party as well as for the Winnie Rice Festival. Joye loved to sew, play the piano, and go ballroom dancing at the Harvest Club with Mack. Most of all, she loved her family and friends, Joye loved her sons, and they loved her! She made everyone feel comfortable, welcome, and loved. Her happiness and love of life emanated from her beautiful face, and her dimpled smile and her bright blue eyes would light up the room.
Joye is survived by her sons, Vester Hass III and his wife, Jan Dubose Hasson, John Hasson and his wife, Rondee Vesterfelt Hasson and Wes Hasson and his wife, Ruth Hilton Hasson; sister, Dorothy Brown; twenty-eight grandchildren; and sixty-five great-grandchildren who will miss "Granny" greatly; and other family members and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband of sixty-five years, Vester "Mack" Hasson, Jr.; grandchildren, Kriste Vesterfelt, Ian Vesterfelt, and Gregory Sanford.
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Winnie.
Broussard's Mortuary, Winnie, Texas
Joye Wesson Hasson, 84, of Winnie, Texas, died Thursday, November 8, 2012, at The Arboretum, Winnie.
She was born on April 12, 1928, in Meridian Mississippi, to Margaret and Arthur Wesson.
Joye married Vester "Mack" Hasson, Jr. on June 23, 1946, and in 1954, they moved to the Golden Triangle with their three sons. Joye was very active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served faithfully in every auxiliary during her lifetime, from Cub Scout Den Mother to Beaumont Stake Relief Society President. With her husband, she served a mission for the Church in Morristown, New Jersey, in the early 1990s. Additionally, they worked together for several years in the Houston, Texas Temple.
Professionally, Joye worked as a secretary in the Beaumont Independent School District, and later became the executive secretary to the Vice Chancellor at Lamar University, Beaumont. She served for a time as the president of the Southeast Texas Educational Secretaries Association. Joye volunteered with the Pink Ladies at the Winnie Medical Center, and was president of that organization for a while. She was an active volunteer for the Republican Party as well as for the Winnie Rice Festival. Joye loved to sew, play the piano, and go ballroom dancing at the Harvest Club with Mack. Most of all, she loved her family and friends, Joye loved her sons, and they loved her! She made everyone feel comfortable, welcome, and loved. Her happiness and love of life emanated from her beautiful face, and her dimpled smile and her bright blue eyes would light up the room.
Joye is survived by her sons, Vester Hass III and his wife, Jan Dubose Hasson, John Hasson and his wife, Rondee Vesterfelt Hasson and Wes Hasson and his wife, Ruth Hilton Hasson; sister, Dorothy Brown; twenty-eight grandchildren; and sixty-five great-grandchildren who will miss "Granny" greatly; and other family members and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband of sixty-five years, Vester "Mack" Hasson, Jr.; grandchildren, Kriste Vesterfelt, Ian Vesterfelt, and Gregory Sanford.
Interment: Fairview Cemetery, Winnie.
Broussard's Mortuary, Winnie, Texas
Events
| Birth | 12 Apr 1928 | Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi | |||
| Census (family)-shared | 4 Apr 1940 | (Arthur Henry Wesson and Margaret Elvira Crafton) Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi |  |  | |
| Marriage | 23 Jun 1946 | Vester Maxwell "Mack" Hasson | |||
| Death | 8 Nov 2012 | Winnie, Chambers County, Texas | |||
| Burial | 17 Nov 2012 | Fairview Cemetery, Winnie, Chambers County, Texas | |
Families
| Spouse | Vester Maxwell "Mack" Hasson (1924 - 2011) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Arthur Henry Wesson (1902 - 1977) |
| Mother | Margaret Elvira Crafton (1904 - 1987) |
| Sibling | Doris M. Wesson (1925 - ) |
Notes
Census (family)-shared
Arthur H WessonHeadM38Mississippi - Life Insurance AgentMargaret E WessonWifeF36Texas
Doris M WessonDaughterF15Mississippi
Joye M WessonDaughterF11Mississippi
Ida F WessonMotherF58Alabama
Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBSS-R3B : accessed 22 February 2017), Joye M Wesson in household of Arthur H Wesson, Ward 5, Meridian, Beat 1, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38-11A, sheet 2A, line 38, family 12, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2039..
2. Find A Grave Memorial# 100437036.