Joyce Ellen Johnson

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

Servces will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 15, 2017, at Mount Hall Church north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

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

Joyce spend her childhood on her family farm in Porthill, where she attended Mount Hall schools, and then later attended high school in Bonners Ferry.

Joyce meet and then married Charles “Punk” Johnson on Dec. 20,1953, in Porthill. They lived for a time in the Cocoalla area where Punk’s 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, she tended bar for years and waited tables. She always had a big garden and canned every year.

She loved her flowers, and 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, hunted for years.

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

Joyce was preceded in death by her parents, Demond And Beulah Wood.

Survivors include her husband, Charles “Punk” Johnson, Porthill; son Donald Johnson (Jolene), Porthill; daughter Barbara (Rick) Henslee, Porthill. She has five grandsons and five great-grandchildren

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