1935 ~ 2020
Joyce Erekson Bond passed away at home on December 18, 2020 of natural causes. She was born on May 19, 1935 in Vernal, Utah to Helen and Clinton Erekson. She had an older brother Harold. In 1936, her family moved to Provo where she was raised, making lifelong friends, graduating from Provo High School (class of 1953), and enrolling at Brigham Young University. Her parents rented basement rooms to BYU students. She caught the eye of one of those named Joe Bond. They were married in the Manti Temple on June 8, 1955. After Joe graduated in 1959, they moved into a new home on Orchard Avenue in American Fork where she has lived for the past 61 years.