After a long illness, Joyce Elaine Roberts passed away February 8, 2013, from heart and lung complications. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, February 15, 2013, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel, with burial immediately following in Highland Cemetery. A luncheon will follow the graveside services at the Havre Eagles' Club. The family has requested that memorials be made in Joyce's name to a charity of the donor's choice. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Joyce was born to Lawrence and Alice Buethe on November 15, 1941, in Scobey, Montana, and was raised in Anaconda. Joyce married and divorced at a young age, before meeting the love of her life, John R. Roberts, in 1964. They were later married in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and their union was blessed with ten children. Over the years, Joyce worked at Havre Laundry, as a Havre Daily News carrier, as a mail carrier with the USPS, as a bookkeeper, and as a loving homemaker and mother. The loving couple also had a country western band named Montana Wrangler. Joyce loved bird watching, hunting, site seeing, playing all sorts of games (mostly card games), singing, and spending time with family. Joyce was preceded in death by her parents Lawrence and Alice Buethe; her infant daughter Jeanette Hardy; her son Larry Hardy; and her granddaughter Rebecca Gallagher. She is survived by her husband, John Roberts of Havre; daughters, Faith Reid of Tacoma, Washington, Peggy Gallagher of Havre, Colleen Clements of Havre (David Clements of California), Rose (Greg) Klemkosky of Crestview, Florida, and Cindy (Randy) Stidham of Havre; her sons Winston Roy Hardy of Bellingham, Washington, Arnold Dell Hardy of Geno, Colorado, and John R. (Teresa) Roberts, Jr. of Havre; her 18 wonderful grandchildren; her 20 beautiful great-grandchildren; and her sister Donna (Charles) Grice of Missouri.