Joyce Buhler

Joyce Hess Buhler

Our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, Joyce Hess Buhler, returned to her Heavenly Father on April 19, 2016, surrounded by her loving family.  Born December 3, 1933 to Ruth and Lloyd Hess in their Farmington home, she enjoyed her childhood with her loving parents and three sisters.  Raised during the depression, she learned the value of a dollar and hard work, a trait she exemplified and passed on to her own family.  She graduated from Davis High School in 1952, where she met her high school sweetheart, Verle Buhler.  They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on December 26, 1952 while dad was on leave from military training.  After living in Texas and California, they returned to Farmington, where they built their life-long home.

Mom was an excellent seamstress, winning two state competitions as a junior and senior.  She has done hundreds of quilts, baby blankets, and dresses that she provided numerous people and organizations.  A member of the LDS Church, she has held many positions in the Primary, Young Womens, and as Relief Society teacher and president, where her charity and compassionate service was never in short supply.  She loved singing and sang in the choir and with her father at funeral services.  She was a great cook and made the best homemade ice cream ever.  She loved gardening and spent most of her summer hours in her huge garden, caring for the flowers and vegetables which she shared with her family, neighbors, and friends.  Weekends were spent camping and riding motorcycles with her family and friends and later at her cabins at Bear Lake and the “Mountain Cabin” she and dad built near Park City.  She raised her four children while working full time as an office manager and accounts payable manager at Lagoon where she worked for 32 years before retiring in 1987.  She and dad spent a long retirement traveling and spending time at their home in St. George and with her favorite past time, her grandchildren.  Together they served an LDS mission at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii.  She will be greatly missed.

She is survived by her four children, Curt (Cyndi), Farmington; Valerie (Les) Wintle, Farmington; Brent (Karen), Pleasant View; and Jeff (Julie), Idaho Falls, ID; two sisters, Charlene Rampton and Loydean Howell, 11 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Verle, sister, Ladell Manning, and grandson Kyle Buhler.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Farmington Rock Chapel, 272 No. Main, Farmington.  Friends may visit family Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 North Main and Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church.  Interment, Farmington City Cemetery.

The family would like to give a special thanks to Inspiration Hospice for their care and devotion.

In lieu of flowers please donate to the LDS Church Missionary Fund.