Joycelaine Carol Tronson Evenson died July 28, 2014 in Apple Valley, Calif., at the age of 87. She was born July 14, 1927 in Glenham, S.D. Joycelaine was baptized and confirmed at the Norway Lutheran Church in Glenham, where she sang in the choir with her sister Muriel Tronson Bandy ’45 and cousin Audrey and were commonly known as “The Tronson Girls”. She graduated from Mobridge High School in 1945 and went on to achieve a bachelor’s degree in biology and speech, with a minor in drama, from St. Olaf College in 1949. Her younger years were spent riding horses with her cousin, who rode “Curly”. She loved spending time in the fields with her father Edwin, a farmer. Her mother Constance was a teacher at a one room school named Wayside School House. Joycelaine went on to teach high school, following her mother’s path. She married Edwin Harold Evenson on Sept. 21, 1957, who also was raised on a farm. They eventually moved to a farm in the High Desert. She proudly rode her American Bashkir Curly horse “Peacock” in the Los Angles Rose Parade for eight years. Joycelaine is survived by her two sons, Grant and Carmon Evenson, and many cousins, nieces, and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin Harold Evenson; parents, Edwin Oscar Tronson and Constance Antoinette Tronson; her brother, Arden Tronson; and two sisters, Arlene Liccardi and Muriel Bandy.