Linda Joyce Ervine Jayne, 81, passed away at her home in Idaho Falls on July 14, 2015, following complications caused by pulmonary fibrosis.

Joyce was born in 1933 to the large family of Ray Ervine and Hazel Bennett Ervine in northeastern Pennsylvania and grew up on their farm. She went to a one-room grade school, and the small Rush High School; there were 10 girls and 1 boy in her 1951 graduating class.

After high school, Joyce entered a 3-year program at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania to earn her Registered Nursing degree. She practiced there a short time, and then worked at the hospital in Binghamton, New York.

In 1955, she married Jerry Jayne at the West Auburn Methodist Church (a building long gone), soon to fly to Germany to join him, a soldier in the US Army. They lived in Munich and Heilbronn with German families, absorbed a bit of German culture, and were able to visit several European countries.

After their time in Germany, the pair returned to Jerry's family apple orchards in Pennsylvania. Joyce worked once again as a registered nurse, this time at the small hospital in Meshoppen, where the couple's son Steve was born. A few years later, they moved to State College, Pennsylvania, where Jerry took advantage of the GI Bill to return to college. In 1960 they moved across the country to Moscow, Idaho, where Joyce practiced at the Moscow Hospital. The next move was south to Idaho Falls in 1961, where she and her husband have lived ever since. For several years, until retirement, Joyce worked at the Riverview Hospital where she made a number of friends among her coworkers and where the pair's daughter Karen was born.

Joyce was a voracious reader of history, historical fiction, biography, classic literature, and novels of political intrigue. She had a keen interest in travel. When her family was young, they camped and hiked in the national forests and other public land in Idaho and western United States. Later in retirement, she and Jerry traveled to more distant places, including Canada, Alaska, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia, and China.

She did much of the family's sewing, and hand-quilted dozens of intricate quilts. She also enjoyed tending her flower garden.

Joyce is survived by her husband of 60 years, Jerry Jayne; son Steve Jayne of Idaho Falls (wife Carol and their children, Greg Jayne and Haley Jayne Sandoz); daughter Karen Young of Idaho Falls (husband Kevin and their children Christopher and Mikaila Young); 3 great-grandchildren; sister Kay Ervine of Sayre, Pennsylvania; sister Audrey Keefer of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; and brother Sidney Ervine of Salina, Utah.

Joyce was a loving wife and a devoted mother. Her grandchildren were fortunate to have her influence in their lives. She will be greatly missed.