Joyce Yarke

Joyce L. Yarke, age 66 of St. Augusta, and formerly of Meire Grove, died unexpectedly on Monday, October 30, 2017 at home in St. Augusta, Minnesota.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, November 3 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Meire Grove with Rev. Marvin Enneking officiating and Rev. Jose Edayadiyil concelebrating. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday at the Patton-Schad Funeral Home in Melrose. Parish prayers will be at 7 p.m. Thursday evening at the funeral home.

Joyce Lucille Rademacher was born May 4, 1951 in Melrose, Minnesota to Virgil and Theresa (Zierden) Rademacher. She graduated from Melrose High School and then worked at the Melrose Clinic for many years. She was united in marriage to Albert Yarke Jr. on May 5, 1973 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in New Munich. She worked at Cabinet Components in Sauk Centre and currently she was working at Thoele Dental Labs in Waite Park. She was a hard-working woman; always giving her all. Her passion in life was spending time with her kids and grandkids. She was a loving and giving wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and friend. She enjoyed camping, hunting, gardening, canning, baking, dressing up and having fun, and making people laugh.

She was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Meire Grove and currently was attending St. Mary's Help of Christian Church in St. Augusta.

Survivors include her husband, Albert "Bert" Yarke Jr. of Sauk Centre; children, Bryan (Tammy) Yarke of Greenwald and their children, Brianna, SP/E4 Brandon, and Steven, Lora Lee (Curt) Novotny of New Prague and their children, LCPL Austin, Krista, and Vivian, Darrin (Tracy) Yarke of St. Augusta and their children, Everett, Thatcher, and Cora, Priscilla Yarke of Las Vegas, NV, Ben Yarke of Meire Grove and his daughter, Aubrey Joyce, and Tiffany Yarke (fiance, Ryan Pundsack) of St. Cloud; brothers, Harold (Joan) Rademacher of Greenwald, Gene (Betty) Rademacher of Melrose, Norman Rademacher of New Munich, and Chuck Rademacher (friend, Nancy) of Cold Spring; sisters, Bernice (Ron) Olmscheid of Lake Henry and Debbie (Phil) Schmiesing of St. Martin; sisters-in-law, Diane Rademacher of Avon and Karen Rademacher of New Munich.

Joyce was preceded in death by her infant daughter, Trista Yarke; parents, Virgil and Theresa Rademacher; and brothers, Leonard "Lenny" Rademacher and Richard "Rich" Rademacher.

Serving as casket bearers will be Scott Rademacher, Karl Rademacher, Jeff Olmscheid, Dale Olmscheid, LCPL Austin Novotny, and Everett Yarke. Cross bearer will be Ben Yarke and scripture bearer will be Priscilla Yarke. Mass servers will be Julia Blenker and Abigail Bauer. Gift bearers will be Thatcher Yarke, Cora Yarke, Krista Novotny, and Vivian Novotny. Reader will be Jill Funk with petitions and eulogy read by Linda Heinze.