Janice I. Joynt 1941-2012

JOYNT HARVEY HARRISON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/31/2012 at 21:59:13

Sioux City Journal
7 December 2012

Janice I. Joynt, 71, of Clear Lake, Iowa, formerly of Sioux City, died Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, at the Mercy Medical Center North Iowa in Mason City, Iowa.

Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Clear Lake, with the Rev. John Gossman officiating. Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, with a Scriptural wake service at 3 p.m. followed by a rosary, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel in Clear Lake. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Monday at the church.

Janice was born on Feb. 1, 1941, in Emmetsburg, Iowa, the daughter of George and Myrtle (Harvey) Harrison. She attended school in Cylinder, Iowa, and then Emmetsburg, graduating in 1959. She then attended Gale Institute in Minneapolis. Following school she went to work in Washington D.C. for the Department of United States Navy. She later moved back to Emmetsburg and worked for Pamline Manufacturing, where she met her future husband, Jerry.

They were married on Sept. 7, 1963, at Assumption Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. They lived in Sioux City, where they raised their family. She started a modeling agency and JIsabel Cosmetics. She later owned and operated a day spa, Pure Concepts, in Ellsworth, Kan. and Seabrook, Texas. After they retired, they moved to Clear Lake in 2006 to be closer to their children.

She enjoyed sewing, crafts, growing flowers, gardening, playing cards, talking on the phone and especially spending time with her grandchildren. She was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Clear Lake.

Janice is survived by her husband, Jerry Joynt of Clear Lake; seven children, Paul Joynt of Ankeny, Iowa and his significant other, Valerie Doohen of Sioux City, David (Michell) Joynt of Highpoint, N.C., Bob (Sara) Joynt of Klemme, Iowa, Mary Ellen Scioneaux of Ames, Iowa, Ann (David) Boudreaux of Sulphur, La., Kathy Joynt of Ames, and Theresa Joynt of Garner, Iowa; 11 grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy (Walter) Nase of Mankato, Minn., and Marilyn (Larry) Egland of Emmetsburg; and two sisters-in-law, Cathy Harrison of Albany, N.Y., and Donna Harrison of Peterson, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; six brothers, William, James, Glenn, Richard, George Jr. and Paul Harrison; and two sisters, Betty Gjerde and Lois Cody.

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