LEILA HARDING LARSEN

  OBITUARY 

Leila Harding Larsen

Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother returned home to her Heavenly Father on Monday, May 17, 2004. Leila was born September 7, 1916 in Lakeview, Utah, the daughter of Arthur James Harding and Christina Madsen Harding. After graduating from Provo High School, she attended Brigham Young University, worked as a stenographer and buyer for F.W. Woolworth Co., and also worked for JC Penny Co.

She married Merrill A. Larsen on September 11, 1940 in the Salt Lake Temple. Merrill and Leila are the parents of three children, Nanalee Cook (Mark) Moroni, Utah , Dr. Bruce Larsen (Susan) Mt. Pleasant, Utah, and Wayne Larsen (Christy) Wellington, Colorado. Their family also includes ten grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Leila loved spending time with her family, vegetable and flower gardening, bird watching, traveling, and Utah Jazz games. She spent many years working with her husband running the drugstores in both Richfield and Mt. Pleasant. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and served for many years as a teacher for Sunday School, Primary, and Relief Society. She also served her community as the President of the Ladies Lion Club, a member of the Auxiliary Foreign Legion, and a volunteer for the Jaycee Service for Cancer.

The family would like to thank the medical staff at Sanpete Valley Hospital as well as the Home Health staff involved with her care.

  Funeral Services will be Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. at the Mt. Pleasant Stake Center, 295 South State in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. A viewing from 9:30 to 10:30 am will precede the services.