Jeanette Vieira

Jeanette “Joy” Vieira beloved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother passed away peacefully on January 13th, 2026. Just 3 days shy of her 92nd birthday. She was born in Santa Barbara on 1-16-34 where she lived with her family, the Alexanders until she was 14. Around 1947 her parents bought a walnut orchard on Highway 246 near Lompoc where they she lived until she married George Vieira, the man she would be married to for 51 years. She moved just a few miles down the road to his family’s farm and not long after they purchased the property across the road where they made a home for their soon to be growing family. There they would raise three daughters, Diane, Loraine, and Noreen.

Over the years they would make hundred’s of families happy at Christmas time selling them Christmas trees from the Vieira Tree Farm. Later in life they would begin to grow pumpkins bringing smiles to dozens of busloads of children who came to learn about life on a farm and who could pick out their very own pumpkin to take home for Halloween.

In 2002 soon after the death of her husband George, Joy would move to a small house on the South Side of Lompoc. There she enjoyed walking all over town, making friends, and spreading smiles among everyone she met along her way.

In 2018 she would return to live at the farm on HWY 246 under the care of her family. There she enjoyed short walks among the old Christmas trees and the many birds that now nested there. Her new favorite pastime became watching old movies from her favorite comfy chair. Her favorite holiday was Easter when the whole family would get together for BBQs at Nojoqui Falls Park.

Her family would like to extend special thanks to Villa Care Homes of Santa Maria and their caring staff for their wonderful home like environment that made the last few years of her life comfortable and well cared for until her peaceful passing through the light at the end of the tunnel to the beauty of Heaven she always talked about.

She will be deeply missed by her remaining daughters and son-in-laws, Diane and Chuck Ramsey, Noreen and John LaPointe, her grandchildren Alec, Travis, Angelina, and Todd, and her great grandchildren, Claire, Rowan, Gabbi, Sarah, and Calab.

Please come join Joy’s family as they celebrate her life at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery on May 8th at 10:30am followed by a gathering on the farm.

There will also be a potluck BBQ on May 9th at Nojoqui Falls Park from 11am to Sunset at picnic site C.