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.

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

Joyce spend her childhood on her family farm in Porthill, where she attended school at Porthill and 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, Idaho. They lived for a time in the Cocoalla, Idaho, 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, she always planted lots of flowers every spring. Joyce also was a 4-H leader for many years in Boundary County. She loved to fish, pick mushrooms and huckleberries, and hunted for years. She also was on the Hall Mountain Auxiliary, she also 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 of Porthill; a son, Donald Johnson (Jolene) of Porthill; a daughter, Barbara (Rick) Henslee of Porthill; and five grandsons and five great grandchildren.

Services will be announced at a later date.

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