Joan Margaret Novak Huston, 82, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, died Thursday morning, December 31, 2009, in the Westminster Village in Ponca City.
Services will be held in Newcastle, Wyoming, at 1:00 pm Saturday, January 9th at Worden Chapel with Pastor's Bill Haley and Charles Dutcher officiating. Burial will follow in the Boyd Cemetery at Four Corners, Wyoming. Visitation at Worden Chapel will be Friday, January 8th from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
The family request that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to the Hospice of North Central Oklahoma in c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74361.
Joan Margaret Novak Huston was born on March 9, 1927, on a ranch north of Newcastle, Wyoming, to John and Margaret Dohrman Novak. She attended rural Weston County Schools before graduating from Newcastle High School in 1943. She married Lee "Bud" Huston on December 22, 1945, and they were the proud parents of Johnny Lee and Linda Kay. She worked at First State Bank until 1948 when they moved to Igloo, South Dakota, and she worked for the Provo School for two years. They then moved to Laramie, Wyoming, where she worked for the University of Wyoming until 1952. They later lived in various towns in Montana until 1961 when she returned to Newcastle, Wyoming, and First State Bank. She later began working as the business manager for the Provo School for five years and Edgemont School in Edgemont, South Dakota, for five years. In 1974 she began working as the head bookkeeper for the Weston County Memorial Hospital and in 1979 began working as the office manager for the Ford Dealership until 1982. She married Jack E. Pfister on August 4, 1983, and they settled on a ranch near Red Bird. She later moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma, to be near her daughter. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
She is survived by her daughter, Linda Robison and husband Leon of Ponca City, Oklahoma; her son, John Huston of Yakima, Washington; two brothers, John Novak and Al Novak both of Newcastle, Wyoming; two grandsons, Jerry Hamaker Jr. of Reno, Nevada, and Danial Huston of Yakima, Washington; a great grandson, Mason Lee Huston of Yakima, Washington; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her step-father, Ed Miller; a sister, Joy Hollister; and a nephew, Randy Chittim.