LEILA HARDING LARSEN

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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.

Royal Jay Lott ~ A Wonderful Friend

Royal Jay Lott

06/01/1939 – 06/13/2012

Jay, devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, returned to his Heavenly Father on June 13, 2012 quietly at his home due to complications of cancer. He was born June 1, 1939 in Huntington, Utah to Annie Ruth Gordon and Royal John Lott. He graduated from North Sanpete High School. He married his Sweetheart, Lynda Mae Harding on July 19, 1957. They were later sealed in the Idaho Falls Temple on Oct. 29, 1966. They had 7 children and many others that called him Dad.Jay was a ‘Jay’ of all traits and a master of many. He worked in construction, building contractor, painter, was a logger for many years, and was the manager of Snow College Activity center for 27 years. Not least, but most of all, was his lifelong passion of horses, which connected him with many friends and family throughout his life. Jay loved the gospel and had a strong testimony of eternal families. He served in many callings in the church. He loved missionary work, but his favorite calling was working with the young single adults.
Jay is survived by his wife, Lynda, children Virgil (Diana), Ron (Leslie), Barbara (Travis), Mike, Judy (Daniel), Victor (Caroline), and Aaron (Kay), 22 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, sister Lovina (Keith), brother John (Libby), and sister Kay. Preceded in death by parents, daughter Cheryl Lyn Lott Olsen (Barry), granddaughter Chaelyn Kathleen Lott, sister Ruth Lott Clement, & brother Carel Lott.
Funeral services will be held Saturday June 16, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. in the Mt. Pleasant North Stake Center (461 N 300 W). Viewing will be held Friday June 15 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and Saturday preceding the services from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Interment in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Online condolences are available at www.rasmussenmortuary.com