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Joy Elaine Carpenter |
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July 26, 1956 ~ October 31, 2014 |
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November 12, 2014 |
Joy Elaine Carpenter, age 58, passed away on
October 31, 2014 at Kootenai Health in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho. Services will be held on
Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the
Church of the Nazarene near Bonners Ferry,
Idaho. A potluck to follow.
Joy Elaine Carpenter was born in Muskegon,
Michigan on July 26, 1956. She passed away
unexpectedly on the morning of October, 31,
2014. Services were held on Saturday, November
8, 2014 in Bonners Ferry.
Joy's family moved from Michigan to Boynton
Beach, Florida when she was five years old. She
graduated from grade school and high school
there before moving on to satisfy her insatiable
curiosity about what the world had to offer.
Joy was a longed-for and dearly-loved baby. She
had white skin, white hair and big, remarkable,
blue eyes peering out from the whiteness. Her
Mom and Dad called her their little "Spook," and
her mother Ethel, known to her family as Moo,
continued to call her Spook at appropriate times
throughout Joy's life.
She was an outgoing and happy child, eager to
please. For all of her life she wanted and
soaked up all the love she could get, returning
it sevenfold. When she was two years old her
parents took her to a meeting at their Masonic
Lodge, and when the Grand Master picked Joy up
she immediately asked him where all of his hair
had escaped to. Yes, he was bald.
She enjoyed school, though Moo was chagrined to
learn that Joy had laughingly told her first
grade teacher that her Dad had a "big, white
hiney." That was Joy, matter-of-fact, with a
sense of fun early on that never left her.
Joy and her little sister Judy loved and fought
and complained about each other and helped each
other and protected each other and formed an
unbreakable bond of sisterhood; sometimes loving
and, in childhood, sometimes not so much, but
always there for each other.
Early in life, too early in her parent's
opinion, she acquired a strong sense for social
causes. Injustice, unfairness, bullying and
incompetence disguised as arrogance made her
blood boil, and she worked hard all of her life
to put things right for others. She truly cared,
and those who loved her sometimes felt that she
carried more than her share of the burdens of
the world on her shoulders.
In the early 90's, Joy, her husband Ray and
their three children, Rachel, Nathaniel and
Sarah, moved to North Idaho. Not too long after
they were settled in, Joy got to experience
driving on ice and snow for the first time. She
did so without any major mishaps but she was
always leery when winter rolled around. As
always, though, she persevered and did what had
to be done.
She worked for years as a secretary at St.
Dominic's Academy in Post Falls, and had fond
memories of a trip she made to France with some
of the nuns and students, including her oldest
child, Rachel. After leaving there she worked at
Health and Welfare until severe back pain from
prolonged sitting forced her to go on
disability. She lived in pain from then on, but
refused to let it diminish the love and laughter
that she had always thrived on.
In 2004 she married Ken Carpenter and loved her
two stepsons Derek and Heath as if they were her
own. In-laws loved her as a sister and aunt. Her
adaptation into a Moyie Springs girl was
seamless, and she wasted no time in acquiring
chickens, two rabbits and two goats. They, along
with four dogs and some indoor birds, gave her
the love and affection that she always shared
with any animal she ran into. She also loved
horses, and had previously owned one.
Joy helped out The Hope House in Moyie for the
last couple of years, dedicating many hours a
week to helping those in need.
Joy was a precious daughter, a loving sister, a
fantastic wife, a devoted mother and
grandmother, and a deeply loyal aunt, niece,
cousin and friend. She loved and laughed until
the end and will be forever missed by the many
who cherished her.
She is survived by husband, Ken Carpenter,
daughters Rachel O'Hearn (Husband Phil and
daughter, Jenna) and Sarah Lozeau (Daughter
Peyton), son Nathaniel Lozeau (Son, Joren),
mother Ethel Razure-Sharpe, sister Judy Thornton
(Husband Dwain), brother Lee Razure, nieces
Nicole, Barbara, Christie, Shannon and Erika,
stepsons Derek (Wife Erin and children Lilly,
Blake, Anneli and Robert) and Heath, and many
dear friends.
Joy believed in God, the hereafter and the power
of love. Rest in peace, dear heart. |
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