Elaine Joyce Banks

Ms Elaine Joyce Banks, 66 of Lake City passed away on Sunday, August 19, 2012 at her home in Lake City. She was a native of Michigan and a daughter to the late Edward Miller and Opal Farneth Miller. Ms Banks had lived in Lake City for the past 24 years having moved here from Lakeland. She retired in 2008 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission with over 30 years of service having most recently worked in the Jacksonville office and previously many years in the Lake City office. Ms Banks loved her poodles, spending time with her family and friends and she was a Christian by faith. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Susan Denise Banks in 1997.

Survivors include her daughter, Connie E. Clark and her husband Jeff, Brandon; her brother, Wayne Miller and his wife Nancy, Ohio; one grandson, Joshua Clark, Orlando; special friends, Brenda and Jim Doxey, Robbinsville, NC; former husband, Jerry Banks, Oxford, MI; former husband and companion, John Buchanan, Lake City; one niece, Kim Marks, Virginia; and one nephew, Matt Miller, Africa.

Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 2:00 PM in the Chapel of Guerry Funeral Home with Rev. Zach Douglas officiating. Interment will follow at Day Cemetery in Day, Florida. Visitation with the family will be from 1-2:00 PM, one hour prior to the service on Friday at the funeral home.

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