Joyce Stewart of Sauk Rapids died Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, at The Good Shepherd Community in Sauk Rapids. She was 87. 
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home in Sauk Rapids with Chaplain James Neppl officiating. Visitation will be two hours prior to the service. Burial will be at Minnesota State Veterans’ Cemetery at a later date.
Joyce A. DeBolt was born Nov. 25, 1937, in Rockwell City, Iowa, to John and Maxine (Michaels) DeBolt. She married Raymond Stewart on July 11, 1959, in Kimball. Joyce lived most of her life in the Clearwater area. She was an Elementary Ed. teacher who taught in South Haven for many years, and later became a substitute teacher. Joyce enjoyed spending time in her garden, cooking for family, making quilts, horses, and reading a good book. Joyce could be tough, sometimes strict, and was very smart.
Joyce was preceded in death by her parents, sister Jeannine Howard, brother Jack DeBolt, great-grandchildren Chloe and Ezra, son-in-law John Evenson, and brother-in-law Larry Sorenson.
She is survived by her husband Raymond of Sauk Rapids; children Karen Evenson of Buffalo, Robert (and Kerry) Stewart of Zephyrhills, Fla., Elaine (and Larry) Boelke of Oshkosh, Wis., Julie Stierns of Oshkosh, Wis., Kelly (and Will) Benage of Sauk Rapids; siblings Carolyn Becker of Pomeroy, Iowa, Beverly Sorenson of Princeton, Bonnie McPherson of Eleanor, W.V., Wanda (and Wayne) Hendricks of Iowa, and Kathy DeBolt of Pomeroy, Iowa; sister-in-law Bonnie DeBolt of Rockwell City, Iowa; 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.