Joy Dee Bray went to be with the Lord on Thursday May 7, 2026. She was born in rural Thompson, Iowa, on February 23, 1939, to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thompson.  Following graduation from Thompson Community School in 1956, she attended St. Mary’s School of Nursing at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  In 1959, she married Bert Robinson and gave birth to her first daughter Robin.