With family members by her side, Joan Cluff Jeppson, 87, passed away peacefully Easter morning, April 9, 2023, in her home in Sugar City, Idaho.
Joan was born July 18, 1935, in Rexburg, Idaho, the second daughter of Owen J. Cluff and Idella Elizabeth Smith Cluff. She attended schools in Sugar City and Rexburg and graduated with highest honors from Madison High School in 1953.

Joan married Gerald W. Jeppson on April 2, 1954 in the Idaho Falls Temple. She cared for Gerald and their children as Gerald completed his education in Salt Lake and Portland. In 1964, after his schooling, they settled "temporarily" in Sugar City, living there until their deaths.
Joan's was a life of Christ-like service. From the time she was a child, she worked from morning until night honoring and fulfilling her relationships as daughter, sister, wife, mother, and friend. Though family was always her first priority, she gave her all to fulfill her responsibilities serving in the Primary, Cub and Boy Scouts, Young Women, and Relief Society, on both the ward and stake levels. Together with Gerald, she served a senior mission in the Athens Greece Mission and several Family History missions at Ricks College. She was devoted to serving both sides of the veil and became an expert genealogist, helping many to become early-adopters of the church's computerized efforts in indexing. Joan took care to preserve and record the histories of her own family, publishing personal history books for Gerald, herself, and each of their five children. After their service at the Family History center, they began to serve in the Idaho Falls temple and later, the Rexburg temple.

Joan's largest efforts were given to her family, sharing with them her faith in Christ and patterning His love as she served and loved them. She taught by example, but was not shy to testify and guide her loved ones. She gave freely of her time to form lasting relationships with each of her children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren as possible. She worked with them gardening, cooking, picking raspberries, and making jam. Grandma's house was a place of warm rolls, delicious food, Rook games, and bedtime stories (during which she would nod off from time to time).

She is survived by her children, Gerald Paul (Becky) Jeppson of Sugar City, Melvin Terry (Sharon) Jeppson of Burley, Idaho, John Duane (Starla) Jeppson of Boise, Idaho, Marianne Jeppson (Lee) Walker of Tucson, Arizona, and Joseph Charles (Elizabeth) Jeppson of Spanish Fork, Utah; brother-in-law, Leslie Gene (Jill) Jeppson of Sugar City, sister-in-law Lola Jeppson of Modesto, California; 17 grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald; parents; two sisters, Elizabeth Cluff Tychson and Marilyn Cluff Bonar; and a great-granddaughter, Faith Joan Fitch.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, April 15, in Sugar City 2nd Ward (gray church), 6 North Teton Ave, Sugar City, with Bishop Glade Pinnock officiating. The family will receive friends from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday, April 14, at Flamm Funeral Home in Rexburg and from 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the church. Interment will be in Sutton Cemetery in Archer.

Thank you to the many friends and family who have supported Joan through the years with visits, food, snow removal and other yard work. Thanks to Meals on Wheels, Aspen Home Health and Hospice and Teton Cancer Institute and other health care providers for their care.

Services will be live streamed at: https://my.gather.app/remember/joan-jeppson