"Taps must be the saddest song ever to be played, and yet the honor and respect that goes with it must be the ONLY thing that keeps the bugle it's self from weeping."
I'll always remember Joe saying that as we played card after dinner for the last time before his deployment
He was the guy you wanted to hate (he was sleepin with my little sister) but you just couldn't help but smile when he showed up .
Miss you Joseph
Specialist Josph Leroy Lister
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(U.S. Army) Specialist Josph Leroy Lister, age 22, member of B Co., 34th Armor, Fort Riley, KS, died Thursday, November 20, 2003, in Ramadi, Iraq while on a convoy escort as a gunner. He was born June 7, 1981 in Kansas City, MO, the son of Roger and Valerie Green Lister. He graduated from Pleasanton, KS High School in 1999. Josph married Sierra Jones on February 3, 2003, at Junction City, KS. Josph enlisted in the U.S. Army as an Armor Crewman on August 18, 1999 and completed One Station Unit Training at Fort Knox, KY. He was first assigned to D Co., 1-17 Armor Regiment at Fort Lewis, WA where he served in a variety of positions from January 2000 until May 2001. SPC Lister subsequently was ordered to Korea where he served in the C Co., 1-72 Armor Regiment from June 2001 until June 2002. He arrived at Fort Riley in July 2001 and was assigned to B Co., 1-34 Armor Regiment. SPC Lister deployed with his unit in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in September 2003. SPC Lister's awards include the Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon and the Good Conduct Medal. Survivors include his wife, Sierra; three-month old son, Micah Matthew Loren Lister; his father, Roger Lister, Farlington, MO; and brother, Ben Lister, Rogers, AR. Also surviving are paternal grandparents, Loren and Velda Emmerich, Pleasanton, KS; mother-inlaw and father-in-law, Yolonda and Bruce Furman, Fort Scott; and several aunts, uncles, and nephews. His mother, Valerie Lister, preceded him in death December 30, 1996. Jim Landrum, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pleasanton, will conduct funeral services at 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 2, at the Grace Baptist Tabernacle, Fifth and Margrave Streets, Fort Scott, KS. Burial will follow in U.S. National Cemetery with military honors conducted by Fort Riley Military personnel. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday at the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel. Memorials are suggested to a fund for his son, Micah, and may be sent to Cheney Witt Chapel, PO Box 347, Fort Scott, KS 66701 or to First Kansas Federal Bank, Fort Scott, KS.
