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Show Page 6 The Ogden Valley News Volume XXX Issue VIII December 1, 2023 Announcements Obituaries James Rodney Clark May 4, 1941 ~ November 12, 2023 On November 12, 2023, a beautiful reunion occurred when James Rodney Clark left this earthly existence to reunite Rodney Clark with his loved ones on the other side. We know he was welcomed home by many who love him as we do. His last days were spent with his family by his side sharing memories and watching USU sports. He died a happy man! Rod was born in the beautiful community of Liberty, Utah on May 4, 1941, to Parley and Fern Clark. He was the youngest of seven children and was very much doted on. He loved his childhood, working on the farm with his dad, and roaming the hills on his horse. He could drive a tractor before he could walk and cherished the memories made on the family farm. He loved to watch the sprinklers, work the farm, and see the hay put away at the end of each season. Liberty was truly his paradise. He loved the land, and he loved the people. Rod attended Valley School and Weber High School where he played football and baseball and was the Seminary President. After high school he became a USU Aggie, which was a great honor to him. After a year of college, he served in the Western Canadian Mission where he met a sister missionary named Kirstine. They were sealed together in December of 1962, in the Idaho Falls Temple and spent 61 memorable years together. They worked side by side to raise a family. Rod graduated from USU with a Master’s Degree in School Psychology. He worked briefly as a guidance counselor at Bonneville High School before he was hired at Utah State University. He worked as the Director of School Relations and Admissions where he helped countless college students over the years. His office was always filled with students who had just stopped by to chat, and he remembered every one of them by name long after they had left USU. He loved Utah State, he loved his job, but most of all he loved Aggie Sports! Rod was a spiritual man and respected his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in many capacities over the years, but his favorite was serving as the bishop of the Liberty 2nd Ward. He loved serving the people of his ward and developing lasting relationships. It has been said by many that he was their favorite bishop. Rod Clark was a friend to all. Friendships were important to him, and he cared deeply about his friends and family. We are so appreciative of the friends who stayed by his side until the very end taking him to lunch, on rides, helping him with his personal history, or just stopping by to visit. We also appreciate his hospice nurses who treated him with love and respect. He considered them part of his friends and family group. Rod leaves behind his wife, Kirstine, as well as five children and their spouses: Bradley (Robyn), Rhonda (Steve), David (Melanie), Suzanne (Steve), and Matthew (Carla). He was so proud of and adored his 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Rod was preceded in death by his parents, Parley and Fern, as well as six siblings: Dale, Shirley, Lowell, Don, Betty, and Geraldine. He loved his family and missed them. We are comforted thinking about the reunion that took place. He was also preceded in death by his father and mother-in-law Harding and Lenna. Rod will be missed by many. He will be remembered for his big smile, generosity, sense of humor, and unconditional love. We love you, Dad! Services were held Saturday, November 18, at Liberty 1st Ward, 4279 N. 3300 E., Liberty, Utah, and Friday 6-8 pm at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Utah. Rod’s service was livestreamed. To watch scroll to the bottom of his obituary at myersmortuary.com at the time of service. His service will remain on the Myers obituary page indefinitely where condolences may also be left. Please send your announcements & photos to: Ogden Valley News PO BOX 522 EDEN UT 84310 Announcements are placed free of charge. NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING WOLF CREEK WATER AND SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 14, 2023, the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Wolf Creek Water and Sewer Improvement District (the “District”) will hold and conduct a public hearing to receive input from the public with respect to the 2024 Operating Budget, and to receive the Annual Report. Notice is hereby given pursuant to the requirement of Utah Code Ann. 11-36a-501 and 503. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2023 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time The District will hold and conduct a public hearing at 6:00 p.m. on December 14, 2023. The public hearing will be held electronically, via Zoom phone and video conferencing (zoom.com). All members of the public are invited to attend and participate in the public hearing. Prior to the public hearing, written comments may be submitted to the District, at P.O. Box 658, Eden, UT 84310, or via email: aames@wcwsid.com. The Zoom Link is below: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5021736475?pwd=VW5FTDdPbUhpODdHS3hy dkpHVjE2UT09 Meeting ID: 502 173 6475 Passcode: 8017453435 One tap mobile: +13017158592,,5021736475#,,,,*8017453435# US (Washington DC) +13092053325,,5021736475#,,,,*8017453435# US Dial by your location: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma); +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston); +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose); Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdYfxe8pX5 DATED November 2, 2023. WOLF CREEK WATER AND SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT. P.O. Box 658 Eden, UT 84310, O昀케ce 801-745-3435 Fax 801-745-3454 President M. Russell Ballard, Apostle & Father, Dies at 95: A man of conviction, hard work, love, and testimony—a man of faith…. October 8, 1928 ~ November 12, 2023 Acting President M. Russell Ballard, 95, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died surrounded by family late Sunday evening. He had recently come home from a short hospital stay and was back at work. Ballard has had failing health in recent years and his eyesight was weakening with age. During October’s semiannual general conference of the church, he noted it was hard to see the teleprompter anymore and he gave his message extemporaneously. Melvin Russell Ballard Jr. was born in Salt Lake City on October 8, 1928 to Melvin R. and Geraldine Smith Ballard. He learned his work ethic early in life at the Ballard Motor Co. auto dealership established by his father, according to a remembrance shared by the church. The young Russell, the only boy in a family of four children, worked in every department at the company, including driving cars around the used car lot when he was barely in his teens. Ballard attended East High School and the University of Utah. Ballard served a church mission in Britain and while there served as the first counselor in the mission presidency. Following his mission, he returned to the U of U. He met Barbara Bowen in 1950 at the Hello Dance for a brief moment, but he knew he had met his future wife. “I knew from the beginning that I wanted to marry her, but she didn’t share the same feelings. It was a little hard convincing her. I kid her now that getting her to agree to marry me was the greatest sales job I ever did,” Ballard said in his biography. “He’ll be remembered as a wonderful husband and a great father,” President Russell M. Nelson said in a church statement. “This is where his highest priority was. He set a good example for us on that, even though he’d had many, many demands upon his time. His family always came first.” Barbara passed away October 1, 2018 at age 86 after a long battle with health issues, including Alzheimer’s. “How grateful I am to know where my precious Barbara is and that we will be together again, with our family, for all eternity,” Ballard said at the October 2018 general conference. Ballard was named acting president of the Twelve on January 13, 2018 when President Dallin H. Oaks was put in the First Presidency. If protocol is followed, the calling will now be assumed by Elder Jeffrey R Holland, who himself has been hospitalized recently. Ballard became an apostle on October 6, 1985. As with the apostles in New Testament times, today’s apostles are called to be special witnesses of Jesus Christ, according to the church. He was one of 15 men who oversee the growth and development of the global church, which now numbers more than 17 million members. “President Ballard was never indecisive,” Nelson said. “He knew exactly what the Lord taught and how it could be applied in one’s per- sonal life and bring joy and happiness.” “We worked together closely, and I always loved his warm manner,” said Oaks, who sat beside Ballard in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for more than three decades. “He was a man to be trusted. And he was a man who trusted you.” His professional life was spent in the automotive, real estate, and investment industries as well as serving in various church callings. “His business experience served him well in asking the probing questions that need to be asked when you propose a program or when you ask, ‘Are we using the resources effectively?’” Oaks said. Ballard’s ecclesiastical service included his time as a young missionary in England, bishop, president of the Canada Toronto Mission, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy and more than three decades as an apostle. “I would not do this for money,” the church quoted Ballard as once saying. “You could not hire me for money to do what I’m asked to do as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. But for the Lord, it’s the greatest privilege that could ever be given to a man. We are witnesses of the reality of the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Ballard had busts of three church leaders in his office: church founder Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum—who was Ballard’s greatgreat-grandfather—as well as Hyrum’s son, President Joseph F. Smith, who was the faith’s sixth president. Those men’s Christian discipleship, it was noted by the church, motivated Ballard throughout his life. “When I came to realize who they were and who I was, it was unbelievable,” Ballard said in 2019. “I am constantly aware that I have a duty just by virtue of the fact that I have a connection. I hear them saying all the time, ‘Get with it; do something worthwhile. Get going, boy; don’t just sit there.’ They were doers. They had to be doers.” Ballard wanted every Latter-day Saint, including his children, to think deeply about the lives of faith lived by those early church leaders, according to the church’s statement on his passing. He told his son Craig, a 19-year-old missionary at the time, “Remember, the blood of prophets flows in your veins.” “Well, no pressure there,” Craig remembered thinking. “(My father) looked at (those busts) every day in his office … and I think he felt he had to do his best. He instilled that in the rest of us.” Nelson said conversion, commitment, and consecration “were in (Ballard’s) blood. Can you imagine—we had the privilege of sitting beside a man who is the great-great-grandson of Hyrum Smith. And Joseph Smith was his great-greatuncle. Every day, I feel a debt of gratitude for the privilege of associating with a direct descendant of those respected and revered leaders. He’s got that same integrity that they had.” Ballard also served as the former chairman of the church missionary council, which included work to develop “Preach My Gospel,” the instruction guide for all missionaries, with then more than 50,000 missionaries under his charge. As an apostle, Ballard travelled the globe extensively and earlier this year spent time in Great Britain with Elders Quentin L. Cook and Holland, who also served in the British Isles. Ballard is survived by his seven children, 43 grandchildren, 105 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild. Deceased Teresa Danielle “Dani” Kellett Franks, 51, died November 7, 2023. James Kimose, 101, died November 10, 2023. Roger “Shavey” Flinders, 80, died November 11, 2023. Richard Charles Montag, 82, died November 11, 2023. United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major Lloyd Jay Merino Ret., 78, died November 15, 2023. |