Joyce graduated cum laude from BYU with a double major elementary education/child development and family relations. She is a mother of ten children and grandmother of 36.
She was raised in Mesa Arizona, attended and graduated from Brigham Young University, where she graduated cum laude from BYU with a double major elementary education/child development and family relations. She then served an eighteen-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints in Ecuador.
She taught school for a year before she and Chuck were engaged, then chose to be a stay-at-home mom. They lived and raised their family in Arizona for 20 years then moved to Mapleton, Utah where they continued raising their family for 25 years. With her husband, Charles, they have 10 children and 35-plus grandchildren.
Joyce is quite handy in the kitchen, and she has had side businesses of selling homemade breads, pies, and other foods and crafts. Joyce and Chuck have written about 14 books on various subjects, including parenting, digital photography, how to make pies, Lewis and Clark, and self-control. In their spare time, they said they visit their children and their families as the 10 of them live in six different states. They also have done extensive work with photos, videos, and stories of their families and ancestors. They said they love to host large parties of families and friends.
In February 2020, they sold their dream house of 25 years in Mapleton, Utah, so they could start serving missions. With her husband of 49 years, they are serving as residence coordinators at BYUH, and loving the responsibility of working with the women in Hale 1 and Hale 7. She sees the miracles of BYUH and PCC unfolding every day and considers it a great privilege and challenge to be worthy of the continuation of the realization of miracles as the influence of this small community is felt throughout the world.