Joyce Ellen Johnson

Our beloved wife and mother, Joyce Ellen Johnson, passed away in her sleep on New Years Day 2017 at her family home in Porthill, Idaho.

Servces will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2017, at 11 a.m. in the Mt. Hall Church, just north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. A potluck will be held immediately following services.

Joyce was born on July 4, 1936, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to Demond and Beulah Stich Wood.

She spent her childhood on her family farm in Porthill, where she attended Mt. Hall schools, then later, attended Bonners Ferry High School. Joyce met and then married Charles Punk Johnson Dec. 20, 1953, in Porthill, Idaho.

They lived for a time in the Cocoalla area where punks family was from. After some years they moved back to the family farm in Porthill.

Joyce worked for years driving school bus for the boundary county school district, she helped punk on the farm with the cattle, the farming, and cooked for the hay crew.

In the evenings, Joyce tended bar for years and waited tables. She always had a big garden and canned every year.

She loved her flowers, she always planted lots of flowers every spring. She was a 4-H leader for many years in Boundary County. She loved to fish, pick mushrooms and huckleberries, and hunted for years.

Joyce was on the Hall Mountain Auxiliary and she also donated the property to the fire department for the new hall in the Porthill area.

Joyce was proceeded in death by her parents, Demond and Beulah Wood.

Survivors include her husband Charles Punk Johnson of Porthill, Idaho; son, Donald Johnson (Jolene), Porthill, Idaho, Daughter, Barbara (Rick) Henslee, Porthill, Idaho.

She has five grandsons and five great grandchildren.

Bonners Ferry Funeral Home has been entrusted with the care of final arrangements.