Ms. Joyce Evelyn Olson, age 84, of Murray, Kentucky, passed away, Monday, June 9, 2025, at the Baptist Health Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky.
Ms. Olson was born on March 12, 1941, in Dearborn, Michigan to the late Charles Elsworth Hillen and Georgia Etta (Wiles) Hillen. She worked most of her working life as a cook on a riverboat and later as a cook for the Murray State University Winslow Cafeteria. She attended the Eastwood Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one sister, Janet Elaine (Hillen) Starks; as well as two brothers, James Edward Hillen and Jerry Eugene Hillen.
Survivors include one daughter, Bobbie Jean Olson of Bloomington, Minnesota; one son, David Roger Olson, Jr. and wife Lori of Eagle Lake, Minnesota; one brother, Jess Hillen of Paducah, Kentucky; as well as four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Ms. Olsons cremains will be scattered at the Fairdealing Cemetery in Marshall County, Kentucky at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, September 13, 2025. A reception will follow at the Four Little Pigs Restaurant in Benton, Kentucky.
Online condolences can be made at, www.jhchurchill.com