| OCR Text |
Show Page 6 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXIII Issue IX June 1, 2016 Announcements Graduation Forrest Brown Happy 90th Birthday Norman Skanchy Norman Lavar Skanchy celebrated his 90th birthday May 7, 2016. An open house, attended by family and friends, was held April 30 Pictured left is Forrest Brown. at the Eden LDS Ward House. Norman was born May 7, 1926. He grew Norman Skanchy up in Logan, Utah, and graduated from Utah State David Elery & Sarah Minerva Jones Chard Family University, receiving a degree in Art Education. Family and friends of the David E. Chard family please take note—a He was a member of the United States Marine Corps during World War II and the Army durDavid E. Chard Reunion has been planned for Saturday, June 18, 2016. ing the Korean War, stationed in China and San It will be held at Liberty Park from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Bring your family and please invite all family and friends. Lunch Diego. He worked for the Ogden City School will begin at 1:00 p.m. Please bring a salad or casserole and a dessert District as the Supervisor of Art Education and to share. Ice water will be provided. Each family will provide their own main course, such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, or whatever your choice for your immediate family. Bring along family histories and pictures to share. Several family members are coming in from out of town. There will be a David E. Chard Carolyn Harding book that is being put together with pictures and stories. Bring your balls, mitts and bats. Other games will also be provided. Pate Hammond We hope to have a great turnout, and to see everyone there! David & Sarah Chard March 22, 1936 ~ May 1, We are planning to have a first-cousin picture taken at 2:00 p.m. 2016 (grandchildren of Dave and Minerva). It will be fun to see and renew old acquaintances. Please RSVP to Marilyn Crezee at 801-393-9539 or 801-876-3062. Carolyn Harding Pate Hammond passed away after a long illness, Sunday, May 1, 2016, at home in Ogden, Utah. She was born March 22, 1936 Sherman and Juana Bailey in Provo, Utah to Gene Carolyn Hammond Sherman and Juana (Story) Bailey celebrated 50 years of and Delight Harding and marriage on May 20, 2016. They will be celebrating with their was raised in Huntington. In 1952 she married family on a family vacation this summer. Alvin Strauser Pate and they had six children; Sherman and Juana were sealed in the Logan LDS temple the marriage ended in divorce. In 1982 she marMay 20, 1966. They made their home in Liberty where they ried Frank J. Hammond who has three children. resided for 31 years. They love the Valley and were grateful Carolyn worked for Woods Grocery as a to raise their family there. Sherm enjoyed farming and Juana checker and then for the U.S. Forest Service in enjoyed doing hair. Together they served their community and map sales and later as an Engineering Budget are loved by many there. After retiring from dairy farming, Analysist, retiring in 1985 with 25 years of Sherm and Juana purchased a farm in Idaho where they lived for Federal Service. While working full time and a few years before settling in Brigham City closer to their family. raising her six children, Carolyn also held the Juana & Sherman Bailey They have made life-long friends wherever they’ve lived, and office of President, and various other posicontinue to serve and love everyone around them. They currently run a woodworking shop and tions, with the local chapter of the National continue to raise beef cattle. They have a beautiful farm and yard, and enjoy working and being Federation of Federal Employees. In addition, with family. Above all, they love spending time together. she served as Second Regional Vice President Sherman and Juana raised five children; Nancy (Robert) Bischoff, Jeff (Monica) Bailey, Rick of the Forest Service Council. For ten years she (Shalin) Bailey, Wayne (Amber) Bailey, and Sherri (John) Vasas. They have 21 wonderful grandchildren; Eric (Quinsie), Trevor (Kelsey), Lauren (Derek), Kyla (Cody), Tanner, Ryan, Olivia, Judd, Brandon, Wyatt, Spencer, Cole, Clarissa, Conner, Camille, Will, Saylee, Sammy, Madi, U.S. Senator Zach, and Andrew. They have a very close family and love spending time with them often and getting together each month. Robert Foster Please help us celebrate their marriage by sending your thoughts and memories to them; 1070 Bennett W. 600 N. Brigham City, 84302. We would love to make a memory book for them to enjoy. We love you mom and dad! On May 4, 2016, surrounded by his wife and children, former U.S. Senator Robert Foster Bennett passed away peacefully at his home due to complications from Robert Bennett pancreatic cancer and a recent stroke. He was 82 years old. Born September 18, 1933, Bob Bennett grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah, where he was elected Student Body President. He served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles Mission as president of the Scottish District, and was later a member of the Utah National Guard. He married the former Joyce McKay December 27, 1962, and he is survived by his wife, their six children, and their 20 grandchildren. Bob was first elected as a United States Senator from Utah in 1992. Before that time, he earned many distinctions in both the public and private sectors. As the first Chief Executive Officer of the Franklin International Institute, the company that would later become Franklin Covey, he was named Inc. magazine’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” for the Rocky Mountain Region. He worked as chief congressional liaison at the U.S. Department of Transportation and was given the Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, the department’s highest civilian award. He was later public relations director for billionaire Howard Hughes’s holding company, Summa Corporation. He was elected to the United States Senate for three full terms and served as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where he secured federal funding to create both the TRAX and FrontRunner public transportation systems. He was the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, and he served as Chairman the Joint Economic Committee. He was widely respected by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. After leaving the Senate, he took a position as Senior Policy Advisor for Arent Fox, a law firm based in Washington, DC that works with a wide range of international clients. He also served as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Forrest Brown of Huntsville graduated May 14, 2016 with a Master’s Degree in Political Economy from George Wythe University. Family Reunion Announced later as Director of Elementary Education. He taught art classes at Weber State University and Utah State University, participated as an Art Fellow at Ohio State University and was awarded the Governor’s Award for the Arts. He is an accomplished artist, sculptor, nationally-ranked racquetball player, poet, tai chi instructor, father and grandfather. He married Elma Marion Avondet (deceased) and they raised four children—Randall (Sue), Patti (Pete), Toni (Tom) and Kelly (Heidi). A favorite poet, Robert Frost, provided these words: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Dad and Grandpa, thank you for letting us travel some distance on that road together. It has made all the difference in our lives. Love, Your Family Obituaries Happy 50th Anniversary 12 $10 OFF 10% OFF $60 Purchase Perennials Not valid with any other offer, coupon, or discount. Excludes bulk and delivery items. Good thru 6/30/16. Not valid with any other offer, coupon, or discount. Excludes bulk and delivery items. Good thru 6/30/16. worked as a volunteer with the Weber County Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center. Also, she attended summer sessions at the University of Utah School of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies. Since then, she devoted her time to her husband, children, grand- and great-grandchildren, neighbor kids (squirt gun fights), her friends, making quilts, and “The Club” (DI Shopping). Carolyn is survived by her husband, Frank, five children: Penny (Pate) Gillett, Danny H. Pate (Kim), Carilyn (Pate) Bunpai, Jason H. Pate (Jodi), Travis H. Pate; three step-children: Frank J. Hammond II (Denise), David W. Hammond (Beverly), Paige (Hammond) Chaskelis (Aaron); eleven grand- and stepgrandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her oldest son, Thomas Alvin Pate. A family visitation was held at Aarons Mortuary, 496 24th St., (downtown) Ogden, Utah Monday, May 9, 2016, and graveside services were held in Ogden Cemetery. Flowers are welcomed or memorial donations may be made in Carolyn’s name to Primary Children’s Hospital in SLC or to the Salvation Army. Condolences may be sent to the family at <www.aaronsmortuary.com> Marshall Fund, the Honorary US President of the Transatlantic Policy Network, and as Resident Scholar at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, which inducted him into their Hall of Fame four months prior to his passing. In addition, Bennett set up his own consulting and government relations firm, the Bennett Group, which will continue its operations in his absence. Bob was an active and committed Latter-day Saint throughout his life and held a number of callings, including bishop and temple worker. In 2009, his book “Leap of Faith: Confronting the Origins of the Book of Mormon” was published by Deseret Book Company, and his unwavering testimony of the Book of Mormon was the subject of an hour-long fireside he conducted one day prior to his stroke. Services were held both in Virginia and in Utah. In Virginia, the family greeted visitors May 9, at the LDS Chapel on 2034 Great Falls St., Falls Church, VA. A viewing was held in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, May 13, at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple. A viewing was held May 14 at the Federal Heights Ward Chapel, 1300 E. Fairfax Road, SLC, with funeral services to following. Internment at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that people donate to the Humanitarian Fund of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, <www.ldsphilanthropies.org/humanitarian-services/funds/humanitarian-general-fund.html> Deceased Dolores Anderson Myers, 86, died May 2, 2016. Betty Jean Brown Mark Martin Hall, 85, died May 6, 2016. Jeri Anne Weaver Stephens, 69, died May 7, 2016. Duane A. Heslop, 87, died May 9, 2016. Fred H. Brittain, 67, died May 9, 2016. Iris Lilian Kunzler Meservy, 90, died May 12, 2016. Steven Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, 68, died May 14, 2016. Brian Milton Burnham, 51, died May 15, 2016. Patsy Martin Downs, 72, died May 17, 2016. George Monte Rice, 79, died May 19, 2016. Anna Jean (AJ) Robson Skeen, 88, died May 19, 2016. Rodger Adair Smith, 72, died May 20, 2016. Dr. Jerald Taylor Storey, 84, died May 21, 2016. |
