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Joyce Daisy Ferguson, 90, of Idaho Falls, passed away Tuesday,
September 2, 2014, of natural causes at the Gables of Ammon. She had been under the care of Encompass Home Health and Hospice.
She was born June 5, 1924, in Charters Towers, Queensland,
Australia, to Hugh Charles Hams and Hilda May Hearn Hams. Joyce grew up in Queensland. She attended Ascot State School in
Brisbane, and later attended a business college. Joyce’s special love was singing. She sang, “Somewhere
over the Rainbow” for a class program which was the only time she performed in Australia. Her life changed when the
first US Navy ships arrived in Brisbane in 1940. The US Army occupied several buildings in Brisbane where Joyce went to work
for the US Army Quartermaster in 1942. It was here she met a soldier by the name of Eldon while he was delivering the mail.
On June 30, 1944, she married Eldon George Ferguson in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was a war bride at the age of
24. Eldon was shipped back to the states in September 1944 to Walla Walla, Washington, awaiting his new bride’s arrival.
At the end of World War II, some one and one half years later, 1500 brides aboard the USS Mariposa arrived in San Francisco
on Sept. 6, 1946. Joyce became a US citizen on October 5, 1948. Joyce was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints in September 1955. She worked at the Idaho Livestock Auction for over 60 years from 1948 until 2010
before she retired. She sang in Choraleers, Chansonetts, church choirs, at weddings
and funerals. Joyce was a member of “Nice to Know You” Square Dance Club, and the Jefferson Hills Women Golf League.
Joyce also enjoyed bowling. After 68 years of living in the United States, Joyce never lost her native Australian accent. Besides her parents, Joyce was preceded in death by her husband,
Eldon on Feb. 5, 1977; a daughter, Jo Ann Harris Holferty; a grandson, Samuel George Ferguson; and 2 sisters, Myrtle and June.
Buried close by Myrtle and her husband are their son Eldon George
"Fergie" and his wife Joyce Daisy.
And not far away their son James Raymond and his wife Verla are
buried.
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