Longtime Blount Co. teaching assistant dies of COVID-19
Joyce Parker s family says she began developing symptoms after she was exposed at work at Montvale Elementary. Author: Cole Sullivan Updated: 6:29 PM EST December 14, 2020
MARYVILLE, Tenn. The family of a longtime Blount County Schools teaching assistant said she was exposed to COVID-19 at school before dying of the virus last month.
Joyce Parker, 59, worked at Montvale Elementary for more than 20 years. She died in mid-November of complications from the coronavirus, her family said.
While wide community spread of the virus in Blount County means they cannot be sure she contracted it in the classroom, her husband and two children said Parker developed symptoms around the same time she was exposed at school.