Joan graduated from West High School in 1947 and began working at Deseret Press where she met the love of her life, Julian Machray (Mack) King, and were then married and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple for eternity. In there thirty-nine years of marriage, they had three wonderful children, Karen, Karla and Krehl.
During her adult life, Joan worked at O.C. Tanner, Sperry, and as a caregiver for many family members and loved ones.
After Mack’s death, Joan married Urban S. Child and shared twenty-eight years traveling and camping with their grandchildren.
Joan served in the Rose Park 7th Ward and Rose Park Stake as a service missionary, in the Relief Society Presidency and as a Primary and Sunday School teacher. Her favorite calling was Compassionate Service Leader for fourteen years and enjoyed making beautiful “Tropical Sore” bandages for leprosy for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints Humanitarian Center.
Her hobbies included embroidery, word search books, and bowling. She traveled to different states for the National Women’s Bowling Tournaments until her late eighties. Most of all she loved her family. She enjoyed spoiling her grandchildren, playing jump rope with them and hopscotch. She created her own games with them throwing the lawn darts over the flagpole and laughing with the kids when someone succeeded.
Joan is preceded in death by her parents, Orson and Emma Buhler, Robert, (Phyllis) Buhler, Betty Jean, (Oz) Pender, Charlotte, (Leon) Densley, Ray Buhler and Jay Buhler, her wonderful parents-in-law, Frank and Laura King, and Morrie and Bev King as well as her precious Great Grand-daughter Stevie Ann Hendrickson.
Survived by her children, Karen (Mike) Loulias, Karla (Jack) Matheson, Krehl (Debbie) King. Twenty-one grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren and 5 great greatgrandchildren. Sisters Bunny Dawes and Sally Buhler Schroeder. Many nieces and nephews, ten stepchildren and numerous step grandchildren.
Her children would like to thank the wonderful staff at Canyon Creek/TruWood by Merrill, Assisted Living Center at Fort Union for their loving and kind care they gave their mom. She loved everyone she met there and the appreciated the love they showed her. Also, Intermountain Medical Center doctors and nurses and Intermountain Hospice for the wonderful love and comfort they provided through her final hours.
A viewing will be held Sunday, December 5, 2021, at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary located at 3401 South Highland Drive in Millcreek, Utah, from 6 to 8 pm. Please enter through the main entrance. Graveside services will be held Monday, December 6, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. at the gravesite. Please enter from 3300 south, the north cemetery entrance. There will be no formal service held.
The family requests that masks be worn for the safety of all who attend. Also, as those who knew mom well, she loved that at age 92 she still wore jeans. In her honor, please feel free to wear jeans.
