GLASGOW Joy Bale Boone, 89, died Oct. 1, 2002, in Glasgow.The Chicago native was a poet, activist, founded the Elizabethtown League of Women Voters, reviewed books for the Courier-Journal in Louisville and on WIEL radio in Elizabethtown. She was active in mental health and medical associations, the Heart Association and the Humanities Council, received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Western Kentucky University, the Sullivan Medallion from the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky School Board Association Friend of Education Award in 1999. She served on the UK Board of the Gaines Center for Humanities, the Thomas Clark Foundation, the Advisory Board to WKU, the Advisory Council of KET and the Kentucky Council on Higher Education. She founded and edited the Kentucky Poetry Magazine Approaches, edited two anthologies of Kentucky Poetry, served on the Board of Friends of Kentucky Libraries, and the editorial board of the University Press of the University of Kentucky. She was co-founder and past chair of the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at WKU and was the first Kentucky Poet Laureate from 1997-1999. She was a daughter of the late William Sydney Field and Edith M. Field and the wife of the late Dr. S. Garnett Bale.Her body was donated to the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at First Christian Church. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at the church. Funeral arrangements, which are incomplete, are under the direction of Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home.Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies, Department of English, Western Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101 or the American Heart Association.Survivors include her husband, George Street Boone of Elkton; six children, Shelby G. Bale, Daryl Bale Vann and Dr. Phillip W. Bale, all of Glasgow, Barbara O. Bale of Lexington and Dr. Richard H. Bale and Dr. Bradley F. Bale, both of Spokane, Wash.; 15 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.