Joyce met James “Jim” Marvin Johnson in 1951. She spent her Senior year writing letters to him while he was stationed in Korea. When he returned, they quickly eloped to Santa Rosa, New Mexico. They made their home in Sayre, Oklahoma and had 3 children, Jimmie “Lee”, Joel, and Gina. She loved caring for her children, husband, and their extended families. She sold Avon. She was proud of her success and thankful for her customers. Joyce spent a lot of time with family including Saturday night hamburgers and Sunday fried chicken at her momma’s house every week after church. Joyce and Jim took their children on numerous adventures across the country in a small camper visiting family along the way. There are many wild stories from these trips.

Joyce and Jim moved West of Enid, Oklahoma in 1979, where they built their home themselves. They started “Jim’s Torch and Regulators”. She worked side by side with her love for over twenty years. Joyce helped lead the Enid chapter of Modern Woodsman planting trees, installing park benches and other community projects. Jim and Joyce made many wonderful friends while they lived in this area. They lived in their home until 2023 when they returned to Western Oklahoma.

Joyce came to know Christ and baptized February 19, 1961. She was a member of First Baptist Sayre, First Baptist Drummond, and First Baptist Enid. She spent many summers assisting with Vacation Bible School and working in the nursery. She used her love of cooking by preparing food for every event at the church. She was a good and faithful servant in all that she did. She and Jim raised a huge garden every year. They donated the best of the harvest to Van’s House, Y&FS Shelter, and Salvation Army food kitchen. St. Jude’s and the Shriner’s are organizations that she supported and believed in.

She loved camping, gardening, puzzles, reading, cooking, baking, and beating anyone at card or board games. She was funny, witty, and just the best. She hosted most Holidays, birthdays, weeklong stays with her grandchildren and the random stays of relatives just stopping to stay a while. She loved to cook for everyone who walked through her door. There were yearly camping trips with her children and grandchildren at Great Salt Plains and Canton Lake.

Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, September 6, 2024, 10:00 am at First Baptist Sayre, Oklahoma with interment in Lone Oak Cemetery. Services have been entrusted to the care of Richard and Tammy Dugger and the staff of Martin-Dugger Funeral Home and Cremations Services, Elk City, Oklahoma.

Joyce is survived by her husband of seventy years, James Johnson of Elk City; son Joel Johnson and Wife Tracy, Mooreland, Oklahoma; daughter, Gina Stewart and husband Ron, Elk City, Oklahoma; granddaughters Amber Washington and husband Kevin, Tuttle,Oklahoma, Erica Johnson, Florence, North Carolina, Crystal Stewart, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Valerie Fairless and husband Johnathan, Yukon,Oklahoma, Jennifer Bauerly and husband Nick of Sioux City, Iowa; grandsons Joshua Collison, Omaha, Nebraska, Garrett Baker of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; great grandchildren; Noah Heckathorn and Leah Washington, Tuttle, Oklahoma, Henry and Braiden Fairless, Yukon, Oklahoma, Reagan and Colton Lee, and Hannah Bauerly, all of Sioux City, Iowa.

She was Aunt Clyde to thirty- one nieces and nephews which she loved dearly. She has innumerable other family members and many close friends.

She is preceded in death by her parents E.L. and Julia; son Jimmie Lee Johnson; brothers, Dean, Lafayette, Wayne, and Don Halford; and Sister Betty Hodo.

Memorials may be made to the charity of your choice in care of Martin-Dugger Funeral Home, P.O. Box 707, Elk City, Oklahoma 73648.

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