Joyce Agnes Johnson, a 78 year old resident of

Sequim, Washington, passed away July 3, 2016, due

to lung cancer.

She was born to George Edward

Rose and Ada Phyllis Schwitzer

Rose in Shanghai, China, on

January 16, 1937.

On June 7, 1957, Joyce married

Frederick Robert Johonson in Los

Angeles, California.

Joyce worked as an executive

secretary for Space and

Communications at Hughes Aircraft

Company in El Segundo, California, and retired to the

Olympic Peninsula in 1993.

She loved to travel and had visited all 50 states.

She was always excited for the Christmas holiday

season, as it was her chance to go to California and

visit family and long-time friends.

She volunteered her time to various organizations

and belonged to many clubs, including Lady of the

Elks/Daughters of the Nile, Travelks #2642, Red

Hat Society, P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational

Organization), League of British Women and the

Hospital Guild.

She is survived by her husband Frederick Robert

Johnson; daughter Lori Ann (David Christopher)

Shuck of Manhattan Beach, California; son Jeffrey

Robert Johnson of Sequim; sisters Dorothy Jiron

of Glendale, California, Elizabeth Waaler of Indio,

California, and Gloria Rose of Downey, California;

brothers Charles (Maritza) Rose of Oxnard,

California, and Robert “Sonny” (Susan) Rose of

Sequim; and granddaughter Allison Lauren Shuck of

Manhattan Beach, California.

She is preceded in death by her mother Ada Phyllis

Rose, father George Edward Rose, sister Patricia

Pointer and brother William Rose.