Graveside Services for Joyce Stultz, 95, will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, October 11, 2025 at Mountain View Cemetery with a Celebration of Life to follow at 2:00 p.m. Reach Club House.
Joyce Helen Meyer Stultz passed away in her sleep on September 30, 2025, three weeks prior to her 96th birthday, at Westward Heights in Lander Wyoming.
Joyce was born on the Craig’s Place in Dutch Flats on October 24, 1929, Northeast of Morrill Nebraska to Howard Carl Meyer and Francis Willard Horn Meyer. The family then moved to Lyman Nebraska, but their farm was in Wyoming while the girls attended school in Lyman and rode horses to school. Her parents ran a dairy farm and farmed their land. Francis told Howard, these girls are not going to milk these cows, so only Howard Sr. and Jr milked the cows. Howard heard about the Homesteads opening in Fremont County and in 1934 her parents drove up to pick out a place at “Child’s Spring Flats.” In March of 1935 Joyce moved with her parents and siblings to their new homestead. The McCoy boys then brought in the Chicago Burlington and Quincy coach and boxcar, located on the Gate siding on the Badwater line near Lysite. They moved into the coach and that’s where they lived for several years. Joyce used to walk a half mile to catch the bus to the Pavillion school with her sisters. They then bought a home across the street which allowed them to move into the Riverton district. The girls had the most fun living in Riverton on main street in an upper-level apartment. In 1945-46 Joyce and all her sisters worked at Temple drug on Main Street in Riverton WY and according to her older sister Pat, “poor Mr. Applebee.” As children, Joyce and her siblings didn’t have toys, so they rode their horses, Duke and Queen over to Ocean Lake and around the area of their home.
Joyce married Carl Dean Stultz in April of 1947, and they bought a home on Lincoln and First Street where they raised their four children, Susan (Stultz) Bagan, Carl D. Stultz, Jacque (Stultz) Taylor, and Chere (Stultz) Gilbert. Joyce worked for a local accountant, then went to work at the Kittyville which became Mode O’Day dress shop. She then bought the dress shop and moved it to a building across the street on Main Street until she later turned the dress shop into Joyce’s. She loved fashion and going to “market” to pick out clothes every season.
She was a devoted mother and was heavily involved in her local community. When her children were young and her husband was working Joyce would take her children hunting and fishing since their father Carl couldn’t. Joyce loved to travel and throughout the years it seemed like she saw every part of this world. From Tibet to the Amazon, from Africa to Peru, from Iceland to Mexico, she was always ready to travel. She was also heavily involved with the Wyoming Republican Party in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and found politics fulfilling.
She loved the crisp crack of the perfect golf swing hitting the golf ball. She once said, “it is that one perfect swing that keeps us coming back for more and by more we may hit that ball hundreds of more times before we get that great one again.” She was passionate about watercolor painting which brought her both frustration and happiness. Joyce absolutely loved to play bridge with her friends and was dedicated to her game play. One thing Joyce loved sometimes it felt like more than anything was sweet treats, especially Krispy Kreme donuts. She also found peace and happiness spending time with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her father Howard Meyer Sr, mother Francis Meyer, sister Virginia Devish, brother Howard Meyer Jr., daughter’s Susan Bagan, Jacque Taylor, Chere Gilbert, and great-grandson Gerald Bagan Jr.
She is survived by her son, Carl D. Stultz of Riverton Wy, grandsons, Darren Taylor and Tammy McCoy of Deming New Mexico, Nathan Taylor of Ontario Oregon, Brennan Taylor (Kara) and great-granddaughter, Zoey Taylor of Portland Oregon, Maegan Gilbert of Oceanside California, great-granddaughter, Kaci Kennedy of Riverton and great-grandson, Douglas Shuck, Makaela Perez (Matt) of Riverton and great-granddaughters Wendy, Allison, Lexi, Ireland, and River Perez.
On-line condolences for Joyce’s family may be made at www.TheDavisFuneralHome.com
Services under the direction of Davis Funeral Home, Crematory, and Monuments of Riverton, Wyoming.