Joyce Jean Johnson Palmer

Our hearts are filled to overflowing with gratitude for the blessing she was in our lives. We remember and honor our Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Sister and Aunt. She lived with so much patience, kindness, goodness and love.

The family of Joyce Jean Johnson Palmer announces and mourns her passing at the age of 95 on January 3, 2026 at Legacy House at Logan Utah.

Joyce was born on July 21, 1930 in Murray Utah. She was the second of three children born to her parents, Elmer Sigfred Johnson and Myrtle Adena Anderson. She grew up in Sandy Utah. Her formative years were during the depression, and so she learned young the value of hard work, family solidarity, and creative problem solving. Want not waste not was the motto repeated many times by family and neighbors alike.

She had, what she called an average childhood. She went to school, she helped at home with the work and chores that needed to be done, and she remembers being happy. She saw a lot of modern conveniences make their appearance in her life, from the electric refrigerator to television, microwaves, and wearing a computer on your wrist. She lived through World War 2, the death of her mother at the tender age of 16, and the subsequent necessity of raising her six year old brother. She learned to sew, studied hard in school and became a secretary.

She met her husband, Clyde E Palmer at a lawn party, where she was managing a manicure booth. That manicure must have been pretty special because six weeks later he asked her to marry him and she accepted. They were married May 26th 1949 in the Salt Lake Temple.

Joyce and Clyde worked and served together for 67 years of marriage. During that time they became Mom and Dad to 6 children, built two homes for themselves, and various building projects with and for their children, purchased a dairy farm in Dayton Idaho, started a machinist (sideline) home business, and raised their children to be good people.

Purchasing a farm in Dayton and becoming country folk was a major part of the family's life. The children learned the value of organizing time, helping each other, and hard work. Dad operated the dairy farm and all that went with it, while Mom got a job and put her secretarial skills to work. She worked for a propane company, a farm machinery company, the Distribution Center in Preston, the Dayton City Post office, the Cache Valley Auction, and as Clerk of Dayton City before she and Dad left on their first mission.

Mom and Dad, served three mission calls. One to Little Rock Arkansas as member missionaries, one to Columbus Ohio to serve as office staff, and one to Salt Lake City to serve in the Family History Library. She absolutely loved working in the office on her second mission. Office work was right up her ally, and the family history mission only solidified her love for and desire to serve her ancestors. Each mission gave them new opportunities to learn, serve, and grow. Joyce was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and held many different callings during her life, and she gave each one her best effort. She especially enjoyed leading the music for the ward, and helping out in the ward library. She bore her testimony by the way she lived her life.

When her husband passed away in 2016, she tied up her affairs and went to live with her daughter where she went to work sewing patchwork quilt tops and baby blankets for the humanitarian effort in her ward. She made over 200 quilt tops, and numerous baby blankets for the Franklin County Medical Center in the last 9 years.

Her family has been her life. She has worked beside, taught, and loved every one of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Her way of teaching was gentle (for the most part) but also insistent. Her only concern was that they would be safe, choose the right and have heaven's choicest blessings available to them. At this time she leaves a great posterity, claiming six children, twenty grandchildren, and sixty great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Clyde E Palmer, a son, Stephen J Palmer, and a brother Bert Johnson. Joyce is survived by her brother Keith (Cathy) Johnson, her sons Michael J (Joyce) Palmer, Jody J (Ilene) Palmer, Martin J (Yvonne) Palmer, Tracy J (Tami) Palmer and her daughter Adena Jean (Warren) Cox, and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to thank Legacy House at Logan and the excellent nursing staff for the loving care of our mother.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 15, 2026, at 11 am in the Dayton Ward Chapel, 825 N. Westside Hwy, Dayton, Idaho. Viewings will be held Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home, 1005 S. 800 E., Preston, Idaho and Thursday from 10-10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment will be held on Friday, January 16, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. in the South Jordan Utah Cemetery. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at webbmortuary.com

The funeral services will be streamed live and may be watched on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, at 11 am by clicking on the following link:

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