Published: November 05, 2009 12:28 am         

Doris J. Hackl

Doris J. Hackl, 80, of West Terre Haute, passed away at 5:58 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in Union Hospital. She was the owner/operator of Grandma Joy’s Restaurant until 1986. She was famous for her homemade pies and yeast rolls. In 1993, along with her son, daughter-in-law, and husband opened the Palmer House Restaurant and Motel on North 3rd Street. They later sold it in 1999. She also was an accountant, Justice of the Peace, and real estate agent. She was born on Sept. 10, 1929, to William Joy and Goldie Mae Joy.

Survivors include her grandchildren, Brandy Ewing and her husband Mike, Hank Palmer and his fiancé Ashley Cooper and Tommy and Lisa Hackl; great-grandchildren, Kaylie and Logan Ewing, Kaia Palmer, and little Johnny Hackl; her stepson, John Hackl; and her daughter-in-law, Eva Palmer; and many, many nieces and nephews; and extended family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her two sons, William Lee in 1957 and Perry Lee Palmer in 2005; her husband, Hal Hackl; her former husband and friend, Ed Meehan; her brothers, Roy, Lloyd, William “B.J.”, and Richard Joy, Don Trout; and a sister, Helen Taylor.

Funeral services are 10:30 a.m. Friday in Fitzpatrick Funeral Home, 220 N. Third St., in West Terre Haute, with the Rev. Dennis Leek officiating. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today and prior to services Friday. Burial is in Roselawn Memorial Park.