Joyce Breinholt Pakradounian, age 40, our loving wife, daughter, sister and aunt returned to her Heavenly home on Friday, June 19, 1998 after a valiant fight with cancer.

Joyce was born May 25, 1958 in Salt Lake City, Utah to O. Clare and Cleo Pond Breinholt. Married Albert Pakradounian November 4, 1983 in the Logan Temple. Joyce had a great love for her Heavenly Father and her Savior and turned to them for strength and comfort in her suffering. Because Joyce had a special love for teaching children, she achieved her goal graduating in Family and Human Development from Utah State University on June 6, 1998 walking across the stage to receive her diploma in spite of her pain and suffering caused from an undiagnosed case of cancer. Joyce loved to laugh, play games and have tea parties in the rain with her nieces and nephews. She loved to travel with her family to places where children were, Disneyland being her favorite spot. Joyce assisted her mother in doing genealogy work, growing to love her ancestors. Joyce was surrounded at the time of her passing by all her family, who she loved dearly expressing her love up until the time of her death.Survived by her darling husband, Albert, of Logan; mother, Cleo Pond Breinholt; brothers and sisters, Neil (Jill) Breinholt; Barbara Breinholt (Kent) Palmer; all of West Bountiful; Alden (Karen) Breinholt, of Fort Worth, Texas; Karen Breinholt (Terri) Foster, of Orem, Utah; and many nieces and nephews. She had a special bond of love for her nieces and nephew, Tia; Echo; Timbree; and Ari. Preceded in death by her father, O. Clare Breinholt; and brother, Ronald P. Breinholt; who came to take her home.

Funeral service will be held Monday, June 22, 1998 at 2 p.m. at the West Bountiful Sixth Ward Chapel, 1750 North 900 West. Friends may call at the church Sunday evening from 6-8 p.m. and Monday from 12:45-1:45 p.m. prior to service. Interment Bountiful City Cemetery.

"Joyce, we love and miss you

till we meet again!"

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