Background
Varner, Joyce Ehrhardt was born on September 13, 1938 in Quincy, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Wilbur John and Florence Elizabeth (Mast) Ehrhardt.
Varner, Joyce Ehrhardt was born on September 13, 1938 in Quincy, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Wilbur John and Florence Elizabeth (Mast) Ehrhardt.
Bachelor, Northeastern Oklahoma State University, 1980. Master of Library Science, University Oklahoma, 1984.
Laboratory analyst, Gardner Denver Company, Quincy, 1956-1960; sales representative, Morrisonville, Illinois, 1963-1969; library clerk, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1973-1975; library technical assistant, Northeastern Oklahoma State University, Tahlequah, 1976-1986; assistant reference library, Muskogee (Oklahoma) Public Library., 1986-1990; library, Jess Dunn Correctional Center, Taft, Oklahoma, 1990-1998; retired, 1998; field office supervisor Census 2000, Department of Commerce, Welling, Oklahoma, since 1998.
Volunteer Lake-Wood council Girl Scouts United States of America, 1975-1998, board directors 1992-1998, president, 1995-1996. Secretary-treasurer Cherokee County Rural Water District 7, since 1987. Education chairman Indian Nations chapter National Audubon Society, 1989-2000, president, 2000-2004, vice president 2008-2010, secretary, since 2010.
Project director Tahlequah Friends of the Library., 2002-2004, president, 2004-2008, program director, since 2008. Member American Association of University Women (chair diversity committee 2000), Oklahoma Library. Association (nominating committee 1989), Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, Oklahoma Ornithological Society (chairman library committee 1978-1988, Award of Merit 1990, president-elect 1994, president 1995-1996, chair special projects committee, since 2009), Alpha Chi, Beta Beta Beta, Phi Delta Kappa (Foundation representative 1984-1986, historian 1992-2006).
Married Donald Giles Varner, September 12, 1959. Children: Amy, Janice, Christian, Matthew, Nadine.