Joyce Ann Robinson, 78, passed on Monday July 28, 2025 in Columbus, GA.

Funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. EST on Friday, August 8, 2025 at New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Smiths, AL with Rev. Tommy Davis, officiating. Burial to follow in Motts Church of Christ. There is no public viewing.

Mrs. Joyce Ann (Black) Robinson was born to the late Annie Ruth (Mitchell) Black and Earnest Black on January 8, 1947, in Salem, Alabama.

Joyce was preceded in death by her son Patrick Drake, parents Annie Ruth Black and Earnest Black, brother Joe Black, sister Francis Bolden, and brother Johnnie Black.

Joyce joined New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church at an early age and her heart remained with the church throughout her life. She has been an active Missionary at the Garden of Prayer COGIC church in Columbus, GA. She taught bible study in her home and managed the Gospel group “The Holy Children’ over ten years singing and praise dancing for the Lord.

Joyce attended school at Wacoochee High in Salem, Alabama and obtained her General Education Degree in Columbus, GA. She also graduated from Phillips college. She later attended and completed the Certified Nurses Associate program and worked in nursing homes in her community. She also worked at Gallaudet University for the deaf and hard of hearing in Washington D.C. as a cafeteria food service worker. Later in life, she went back to cosmetology school and became a hair stylist in Columbus, GA and Phenix City, AL.

She leaves behind her husband, Randolph Robinson; 3 daughters, Carlanda Perry Rachell Drake (Eddie) Black and Candy Robinson; 3 sons, Joshua Drake, Exodus (Christina) Robinson, and Randolph (LaTanya) Robinson II, and one sister Barbara (Kurt) Brittan. She also has thirty one grandchildren, and a host of great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, other relatives and close friends.