Joyce Elaine Lincoln

Joyce Elaine (Kline) Lincoln passed away peacefully on February 25, 2024, at Weston County Manor. She was the fifth child in a family of six children.

Joyce was born on September 29, 1931, in Juanita, Nebraska to Orville and Myrtle (Pinkerton) Kline. While still a small child, the family moved to a homestead south of Newcastle, Wyoming.

Joyce attended school in Newcastle, graduating in 1949. While attending high school and in the summer, she worked as a telephone operator in Newcastle.

Joyce met Marvin at a dance in the old Newcastle Armory in 1949. They dated for a couple of years while Marvin attended the University of Wyoming, studying engineering.

They married on January 29, 1951, and moved to Santa Monica, California where Marvin was employed by Douglas Aircraft. In 1952 they lived in a trailer next to Kiddy Kamp.

The couple purchased five lots in Malibu Canyon and started building a garage that turned into a one-bedroom home. At that time, Joyce worked at the title office in Santa Monica.

In 1956, Marvin quit his job and they moved to Boulder, Colorado, to work for Beach Aircraft. They lived in an apartment until buying their first home.

Facing a transfer to Wichita, Kansas, they sold their home and returned to California on January 1, 1958. Marvin returned to work with the same company, now McDonald Douglas. Joyce drove the kids back and forth to school while helping to build a larger home. She was hands-on in helping to build that home, pouring concrete and anything else that needed done. 

Three children were born into this union: Terry Sue, Sherry and Randy. Joyce kept the kids busy, the girls with horses and Randy with a mini motorcycle. Again, the two of them added on to the house in 1964.

They came back to Wyoming often keeping up the Lincoln family homestead south of Sundance. In early 1972, they sold their house and bought a KOA franchise and built in Sundance, opening in 1973.

Marvin worked part-time for Harry Garman doing machine work to help make ends meet. In 1977, Marvin was called back to McDonald Douglas leaving Joyce to run the KOA the last year they owned it.

Later, Joyce returned to California to be with her husband, where they built another house and lived there until 1986. The couple enjoyed retirement between Sundance and Mesa, Parker and Lake Havasu, Arizona then finally in Wickenburg, Arizona. In 2014, they moved back to Sundance permanently.

Joyce is survived by her children, Sherry (Tom), Wausau, Wisconsin and Randy (Kathleen), Sundance; son-in-law, Bill Truckenmiller, Port Angeles, Washington; grandchildren, Aleshea Truckenmiller, Travis (Christi) Truckenmiller and their children Gavin, Liam, Zoe and Jadon, Elaine (George) Drew and their children Conor, Grant and Ella, Karl Halsey and son Skylar, Nick Halsey, Jessica (Casey) Jones, Dylon Lincoln, Peggy Berdahl and Shirley Ann Wiles; close family friends, Lynn and Pam Jensen, Tina (Hans) Simpson and their children, Justice and Signe, Julie Zaato and her children Tessa and Wudzie and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Joyce was preceded in death by her parents, Orville and Myrtle; eldest daughter, Terry Sue Truckenmiller; son-in-law, John Halsey; sister, Jeanette Berdahl and husband Stewart; and brothers Orville Kline Jr. and wife Jean and brother Jack Kline; brothers and sisters in law, Leon and Pauline Dillon, Lyle and Annabelle Hamilton, Glenn Lincoln and Don Wiles.

A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 20, 2024, at Fidler-Roberts & Isburg Funeral Chapel in Sundance. Burial will follow in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Sundance.

Arrangements are under the care of Fidler-Roberts & Isburg Funeral Chapel of Sundance. Online condolences may be written at http://www.fidler-isburgfuneralchapels.com.