Joan Webster Brockbank

Joan Webster Dixon Brockbank, age 82, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on August 15, 2015.  

Joan was born November 25, 1932 to Douglass and Gwen Webster Dixon.  She was raised in Payson, Utah. When Joan was at the tender age of 13, her mother passed away. She was blessed to have a wonderful second mother when her father married Beth Call. Working in her Daddy’s grocery store, she learned the value of hard work, service to others, and thriftiness.  

She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Home Economics Education. While at BYU she met her sweetheart, Grant Clayson Brockbank. They courted while attending BYU, and working summers at Zion National Park. They were married June 7, 1955 in the Salt Lake Temple and recently celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary.

Joan taught Home Economics in Portland, Oregon while Grant attended the University of Oregon Dental School.  They resided in Fairbanks, Alaska while Grant served as a dentist in the U.S. Air Force before establishing their home in Salt Lake City, Utah.  

Joan’s life was filled with service in ward and stake auxiliaries in the LDS church, as an officer in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and the PTA. Grant and Joan served LDS missions together at the Winter Quarters Visitors Center in Omaha, Nebraska and 7 1/2 years at the LDS Employment Center at Welfare Square.

Joan is survived by her husband Grant; their 4 children, Harold (Lori), Brenda (James Walton), Elizabeth (Curtis Hoffman), Roger (Kristina); 21 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; brothers, James Dixon (Aloha), Sterling Dixon (Jan); and sisters, Shirley (Wendell West), Elizabeth  (Gary Schroeder), and Leslie (Lamont Crabtree).  She was preceded in death by one great-grandson.
    
Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at the Salt Lake Foothill 7th Ward (2215 E. Roosevelt Ave.) A viewing will be held Friday, August 21 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the same location, and Saturday 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. before the funeral. Interment at Provo City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the LDS Humanitarian Fund or the LDS Church General Missionary Fund.  Funeral Directors Russon Brothers Mortuary.  Online guestbook available at www.russonmortuary.com