1/26/33 ~ 7/21/03
Joyce Evelyn (Jacobs) Hamula, age 70, died July 21, 2003 in Ketchum, Idaho as the result of injuries sustained in a car accident while vacationing in the Sawtooth Valley that she had loved from her childhood.
Born January 26, 1933 in Long Beach, California to Jerald Spahr Jacobs and Jetta Christiansen Jacobs, Joyce graduated from high school in Long Beach, attended the University of Utah and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), and ultimately obtained a B.A. in English from the University of Southern California and a M.A. in English from California State University, Long Beach. On June 15, 1956, Joyce married Joseph (Joe) Frank Hamula in the Los Angeles Temple. Over the next 21 years, Joyce and Joe made their home in Long Beach and had five sons, James, John, Jason, Justin, and Jeffrey. In 1977, Joyce and Joe moved with their sons to Utah, living initially in Morgan and moving later to Salt Lake City in 1984.
Joyce was a woman of deep faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ, uncompromising loyalty to moral principle, relentless concern for the truth, and inexhaustible energy in the pursuit of her varied interests and concerns. Throughout her life, Joyce served faithfully in the LDS Church in many ward and stake positions. With her husband, she recently completed nearly four years of full-time missionary service in the Hungary Budapest Mission.
Joyce was an accomplished musician, who loved playing the piano and organ (particularly as an organist in the Salt Lake Temple) and who was deeply moved by choral music. Joyce also was a successful entrepreneur, establishing a profitable arts and crafts company. Notwithstanding her various interests and talent, Joyce's first interest and concern always was the temporal and spiritual well-being of her sons and their families, all of whom she deeply loved and of whom she was profoundly proud. Preceded in death by her parents, Joyce is survived by her sister, Janet Jones of Centerville, Utah; her brother, Jerry Jacobs, currently serving an LDS mission in Malaysia; her husband, Joe; her five sons and their spouses; her 12 grandchildren; her three nieces and four nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 11:00 a.m. at Monument Park 15th Ward Building, 1320 S. Wasatch Dr. Viewing will be Friday, July 25, 2003 from 7-9 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 Highland Dr. and on Saturday from 9:45-10:45 a.m. prior to the funeral service. Interment will be at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. Donations may be made to the Joyce Hamula Memorial Fund at any Zion's Bank.