BOILING SPRING LAKES — Joy Vereen Formy-Duval, 79, passed away Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
Mrs. Formy-Duval was born Jan. 12, 1941, in Brunswick County to the late John William Vereen and Hazel Gray Vereen. Joy was raised in Bolton and graduated from Hallsboro High School, where she played basketball.
Joy served in the U.S. Army National Guard. She had an accounting degree and worked in the Columbus County School System, UNC Chapel Hill Hospitals, the CP&L Nuclear Power Plant, and later for a construction company all as a bookkeeper. Joy will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother and provider for her family.
Mrs. Formy-Duval is survived by her husband of 60 years, Gene Formy-Duval, who she married in 1959; two sons, Gene Formy-Duval Jr., and his wife, Martha, of Jessup, Georgia, and Christopher Formy-Duval, and his wife, Nomi, of Durham; two brothers, John William Vereen Jr., and his wife, Diane, of Leland, and Wayland F. Vereen, and his wife, Linda, of Boiling Spring Lakes; and nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
A celebration of her life will be held at Peacock-Newnam & White Funeral Home Chapel when deemed safe to do so in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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