Obituary of Vera Joyce Cardon

3 Oct 1920 – 8 Apr 2006

Wife of Guy Nebeker Cardon


Vera Joyce Johnson was born October 3, 1920 in Mesa, Arizona to Vera DeFries Johnson and Jesse Denver Johnson, their third out of five children.

She was educated in the Mesa City schools, and attended college in Logan, Utah, graduating with a Teaching Degree in English and a minor in History from USAC (now USU).

She married Guy N. Cardon of Logan. They are parents of three children, Alice Cardon Crockett, Joel Guy Cardon, and Zoe Grehta Cardon; grandparents of four: Hilary Horton-Brown, Jack Earl Horton III, Emma Joyce Cardon, and Lucy Claire Cardon; and great grandparents to Siera Jane Horton and Cortland Jack Horton. Joyce loved reading, writing, learning, cultural arts, and nature’s beauties. One brother-in-law, Bob Peterson, of Mesa, Arizona survives of the Arizona family.

Graveside services were held for the family at the Logan City Cemetery.


Logan City Cemetery, Logan, Utah

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