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Show OREM TIMES Thursday, September U, 2008 Page 14 Obituaries Darrel K. Fenton Sheree Terry Balser Deeply loved and always to be remembered, Sheree Terry Balser gracefully grace-fully passed on in her home Sept. 3rd 2(K)8. By her side was her childhood sweetheart, husband and devoted caregiver. care-giver. Ken. Sheree was born May 21. 1928 in St. .George Utah, to Laura Lund Terry and Llvis B. Terry. She grew up in ()rem. Utah attending at-tending Spencer Klementary and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1946 then attended Brigham Young University. She was sealed to Ken Balser on Sept. 24 1947, in the Salt Lake Temple. They made their first home in Vallejo Ca. while Ken was serving in the US Air Force at Fairfield-Suisun M B. Sheree moved back to Orem, when Ken was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. Upon Ken's graduation gradu-ation from BYU. together they moved to Helena M l', residing there for 3 years. In 1 959 they returned re-turned to Provo. where they have lived for the past 48 years. Sheree loved any sport or event especially those involving her family. Many a summer evening would find Sheree in the stands with a score book in her hands enthusiastically en-thusiastically supporting her children's chil-dren's and grandchildren's teams. Together with Ken she traveled all over the west watching her kids play collegiate sports. Music was a major center of her life. Sheree learned to play the piano and organ while sitting on her grandmother's knee. At the age of 10 she began accompanying accompa-nying her father Llvis Terry on the piano as he performed. She also accompanied her son Terry as he shared his singing talents for over 45 years. Sheree played the piano for the Mendelssohn Male Chorus for 22 years, performing per-forming throughout the western United States in thousands of concerts and performances. Her love of music influenced every aspect of her life. Many of her numerous church calling involved music. Sheree taught piano lesson for years, helping to share her love of music with the hundreds of students that came into her home. Sheree found great pleasure in her many friends. Her night and afternoon bridge clubs were highlights of her life. She love to entertain and have friends and family in her home. One of the things she most loved was relaxing relax-ing on the back of the "O B Joyful" Joy-ful" up a beautiful canyon at Lake Powell. Her employment included telephone operator, piano teacher. Real Estate agent and developer and manager of Balser Coastruc-tion Coastruc-tion Products, Inc. Sheree is surrived by her husband, 4 children, sons Terry (Gaile). Keven (Marlene), Lauri (Bryan). Tod (Shanon) , 16 grandchildren grand-children and 14 great-grandchildren. Sisters, Birdene Keddington, Joan Harker, Karen Rowley and brother Brent Terry. The family would like to express ex-press profound gratitude to Comfort Com-fort Care Hospice, for their love, respect and special care given to our mother. Special thanks to Erin, Juli, Lisa, Donna, Rebecca, Paul, Jim, and Dr. Canfield for their tender loving care. A celebration of Sheree's life was held on Monday, September 8, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. at the Sun-dberg- Olpin Mortuary, 495 S. State Street in Orem. Friends and family called at 10 am prior to the services. Darrel K. Fenton, of Longmont, died at his residence September 2, 2008. He was 75. Darrel was born on March 28, 1933 in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, Utah to Thomas Fenton Fen-ton and Beth Kirk Fenton. He lost his father at a young age and as the oldest sibling, took on numerous jobs to help support his family. From picking fruit, to selling sell-ing items door to door he became a provider at an early point of his life. Following high school, Darrel joined the US Air Force. While expecting ex-pecting to be stationed in Hawaii, he was surprised to fly into Labrador Labra-dor where he was stationed in the snow and frozen tundra. Darrel attended and graduated from Utah Tech. While in college he met the love of his life Cleta Martin. They were married on October Oc-tober 3, 1958 at the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. Darrel joined the Federal Aviation Avia-tion Administration in 1961. The family moved to Colorado in 1961, and then Longmont in 1962. He was proud to have been on the first shift at the Longmont FAA Center in 1962. He retired in 1988. He was active and involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints his entire life. He enjoyed golf, tennis, hunting and fishing. He participated in the senior tennis league for a number of years. Preceding him in death were his parents and two brothers Sam Fenton and Jay McNees. Surviving are his wife Cleta Fenton of Longmont, daughter Mindi Markham and her husband Ed of Mead, two sons Brian Fenton and his wife Joyce of Filmore. CA and Thomas Fenton and his wife Pamela of Trout dale, OR; two brothers Thomas Fenton Fen-ton of Hurricane, Utah and Joel McNees of Carrolton, Texas, a sister Georgia. Scott of Portland, Oregon; and five grandchildren Cody Markham and his wife Kara of Provo, Utah, Shane Markham and his wife Alyssa of Mead. Kylie West and her husband Ryan of Riverton, Utah, Lt. Joshua Kirk Fenton currently stationed in El Paso, Texas and Anna Katerina Fenton of Boston, Massachusetts. A graveside service was held -on Monday. September 8, 2008 at 2:00 pm in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery. Military honors were conducted by the Veterans of Foreign For-eign Wars, American Fork, Utah. Contributions may be made to the International Essential Tremor Foundation. P.O. Box 14005, Len-exa. Len-exa. KS 66285-4005. www.essen-tialtremor.orgdonate www.essen-tialtremor.orgdonate Please share your thoughts, memories and condolences con-dolences with the family at www. howemortuary.com. Robert Christensen mm tTM IN m U IV ITTilil ;1J mm mB I Unin hrttHH 200$ wW itpl. II, KOt Kna-F Panda Monday Fndoy 7 00 p.m Sohrdoy 3 00 & 7 30 p m ftpac Chimps Monde? Friday 7 00 p m Sohj'dtry 3 00 4 7 30 p m Indiana Jombi Knaaa f CrytM lkN Mondoy Friday? 15pm J1 Strturdoy 5 00 & 9 30 p m Oat Smart Fr.doy9l5pm Saturday 5 DC & 9 3Cp Don't be taken in by these types of hearing aid offers. Check the bottom line, written guarantees and after-dclivcrv service 37 W 300 N, Provo 373-7989 El I I SS, fBBffl Gtemiums Robert Christensen, 67, of Pleasant Grove passed away September 8, 2008 at his home. Bob was born May 18, 1941 in Payson, Utah to George F. and Madge Christensen. He married Eilene Andrus in 1976 and later divorced. Bob grew up in Payson and graduated from Payson High School in 1959. He served in the U. S. Army and in the Utah National Guard. He served an LDS Mission to Johannesburg, Johan-nesburg, South Africa from 1962-64. 1962-64. He attended BYU and received a degree in Business Administration. Administra-tion. Bob enjoyed model trains, Yankees Baseball, BYU Sports, traveling, and spending time with his family. Bob was a scout leader Custom, QualityMl Monuments Large Selection of Colors & Styles 725 South 900 East ' Provo, t'tah 374-0580 - - . - ftiiftinifim,,. m li?. 1 II lit II tfM 11, .B II QE3D QiPlMMriflOttlanD mum We carry building materials, paint, cabinets, lighting fixtures, furniture and appliances. BEST PRICES ON LITTLE GIANT LADDERS! Donate all your surplus building materials, hardware, tools, and furniture to Habitat for Humanity Hu-manity to help Utah families and further our cause. Habitat for Humailty 626 N. 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Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in the Battlecreek Stake Center, 825 South Loader Drive, Pleasant Grove where friends may call one hour prior to services. Interment will be in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery under un-der the direction of Olpin Family Mortuary, Pleasant Grove. Condolences Condo-lences may be sent to the family at www.olpinmortuary.com. The privilege of working with Admiral Rickover Editor's note: This is the fourth and final article in a series about Reed Nixon of Orem. This week Nixon learns that being hired by and working for Admiral Hyman Rickover is an unforgettable unforget-table experience. n initial challenge m wor w'tn 1 nuclear reactors (J was finding some- v thing that would U I dissolve zirconium, zirconi-um, which is practically corrosion cor-rosion resistant, but wouldn't dissolve the vessel it was put in. I helped solve that problem, prob-lem, then decided to do the criticality tests, to make sure that uranium and plutonium from the processed fuel was not stored in a concentration and configuration that would sustain a chain reaction and blowup. On finding a new book on the subject, I taught myself how to do the criticality critical-ity calculations. The chief engineer was impressed. A result was that I was sent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Labora-tory, in Tennessee, where I would learn to design nuclear reactors the only place at the time where such an education educa-tion could be had. Work of this type was highly classified, so it could not be taught in the universities, only at a classified classi-fied facility. 1 was one of 72 students selected from across the country 36 from universities univer-sities and 36 from industry. On completion of graduate work there, I wrote a dissertation disserta-tion and went to work for Admiral Ad-miral Hyman Rickover, who was in charge of designing nuclear submarines. I was responsible re-sponsible for the second core of the Nautilus and the first core of the Seawulf . My interview with Rickover Rick-over was the easiest anybody ever had with him. He was a "very difficult person in some ways. He always had with him the head of personnel person-nel when he conducted an employment interview. "Where did you stand in your university class?" he asked me. "I was fifth." "Why weren't you first?" "Because there were four men better than I was, Admiral." Admi-ral." ' He almost climbed over his desk. "Don't you ever say something like that. Don't you think I can count?! Could you have been first?" "I guess so." "Is that yes?" "Yes." "Then why weren't you first?" "I had other interests." "Were they girls?" "Yes, sir." "That's all right." Toward the end of the interview, in-terview, he said, "I see that you've been on a mission for the Mormon Church. You don't appreciate what your church has done for you, do you?" "I think I do, Sir." "No, you don't! And don't you ever contradict me again. Do you want a job with me?" "Would you mind if I went home and talked to my wife?" "I didn't ask your wife if she wanted a job." "Yes, Sir, I want a job with you." I didn't know at the time that Richard G. Scott had an office right down the hall, and that Rickover highly respected returned Mormon missionaries, because of Richard Rich-ard Scott, who he thought was great. I've testified before congressional con-gressional committees, and I've done a lot of other things because of my career with Rickover. He gave us tremendous tremen-dous authority, and people were very anxious when you reviewed with them your work with Rickover you realized that he had all power, and he used it. It's because of him and the nuclear submarines that we were able to win the Cold War. Some veterans may wish, on their own, to tape or digitally record their memories of military service. These will be transcribed and archived. For instructions on how to do this, e-mail Don Norton at don.norton.byu.edu. events Community Ed courses offered of-fered UUU Community Education Edu-cation is offering two special interest and hobby community education courses in addition addi-tion to their 120-plus courses already offered this semester as part of the nonprofit partnership part-nership with Alpine School District. Advanced Drawing: This class is for the art student with some experience in drawing who wants to improve their skills to a more advanced level. We will be learning the traditional realistic approach to sketching beginning with simple shapes leading up to more complex North Count)' Newspapers 3 PI Jl PPfPiPHP Doily HmktPubhUg Co f&l I I M II I El I CI I III 3W (. SMi U. 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This class is held each Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. beginning Sept. 9 to Oct. 28. The course is held at Spotlight Revue Studio located at 1160 S. State Street 10 in Orem. Beginning Japanese: Learn basic Japanese grammar and pronunciation for various situations. You will begin to communicate in Japanese from the first day, learning to converse about topics including in-cluding self introduction, asking ask-ing for direction, shopping, and more. This class is held each Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 10 to Oct. 15. The course is held at Utah Valley University Education Edu-cation Building located at 950 W. 800 South in Orem. Course costs range from $59 to $89. UVU is offering two new sports related community education classes as part of the non-profit partnership with Alpine School District. 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