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Show Kate Heywood Church PANGUITCH Kate Heywood Hey-wood Church, 94, of Panguitch, died March 4, 2000, at the home of her daughter in Nephi after a long illness. Kate was born Aug. 26, 1905, in Panguitch, to David Leland and Kate Delong Heywood. She married Rudolph Church, June 11, 1925, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died May 4, 1973. Kate operated the Blue Pine Hotel Ho-tel and Motel with her husband for 30 years. She was a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and received the "Woman of the Year" award. She was active in her church and was a talented teacher, serving in many teaching and administrative positions. She was a wife to an LDS bishop for nine years. She was a poet, a comic and mimic and she loved to entertain people. Exploring the hills and valleys of southern Utah was one of her favorite pastimes. She picked bull berries along the Sevier River and made jelly. She gathered pinenuts in the fall, picking them up one by one so she could spend more time among the pinion pines and junipers. juni-pers. She hunted for and collected Indian arrowheads with her friends throughout the year, Casto, Sandy, Mammoth every dried-up creek bed was tramped by the group. Kate loved to play bridge and belonged to two clubs. Quilting, knitting and crocheting were also hobbies and every child and grandchild grand-child were recipients of unique colorful col-orful and technically difficult to construct artifacts. The more intricate intri-cate the pattern the more joy she received from the construction. Her good taste and sense of color coordination coor-dination made many fantastic gifts. Brides received quilts and afghans and babies received shawls and booties. boo-ties. Kate was an expert candy maker and baker. Family members all remember her delicious chocolate Kate Church sheet cakes with divinity icing, also her lemon meringue and banana cream pies. When family members gathered for the deer hunt, her two sons and 11 grandsons and their friends gorged on peanut butter fudge, divinity, peanut brittle, and pinoche. She is survived by her son, Val Dolph (Mary Lou) Church, Panguitch; Pan-guitch; two daughters, Winagene Church (Donald)-Eyre, Nephi; Dr. Kathleen Church, Phoenix, Ariz.; daughter-in-law, Mary Ann Church, Panguitch; 17 grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren; brother, David (Margaret) Heywood, Salt Lake City; sister-in-law, Trudy Heywood, Hey-wood, Logan; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rudolph in 1973; son, Clem in 1989; five sisters; three brothers; and one great-grandson. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Tues-day, March 7, 2000 in the Panguitch Pan-guitch 1st LDS Ward Chapel. Burial will be in the Panguitch Cemetery. Funeral directors: Neal S. Ma-gleby Ma-gleby & Sons Mortuary Richfield. |
