ANITA LOUISE MIKKELSEN~~~ HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND

 

Anita Louise Mikkelsen

January 24, 1947 — February 16, 2025

Mt. Pleasant

Anita Louise Simons Mikkelsen, 78 passed away peacefully surrounded by her family in Mt. Pleasant, UT, on February 16, 2025.

Anita was a wife, mother, grandmother and sister. She is now happily reunited with her loving husband Andrew who passed on 25 years before her.

Mother of Ed Mikkelsen, Any Mikkelsen Wall, Bret (Kristie) Mikkelsen, (late) Sean Mikkelsen. Grandmother of 8 grandkids, Darci, Abbi, Whitney, Shantel, Karlie and Sonny, McKenna, Andrew; 12 great-grandkids; sister to Darlene (Charles) Stevens and Lisa (Jeff) Johns.

Anita enjoyed getting together with friends and family, vacationing and her daily visits with the coffee crew. 

Anita’s kids all live close and spent a great deal of time with her. She loved going for rides and picnics in the mountains. 

Preceded in death by her parents Dee and Wahnetta Simons; brother Dick Simons; husband, Andrew Mikkelsen; son, Sean Mikkelsen; son-in-law Brian Wall and granddaughter Karlie Ison.

Services will be held Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 11:30 a.m. at Rasmussen Mortuary with a visitation one hour prior starting at 10:30 a.m.. Interment in the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery. 

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BARN AGAIN ~~~ Photos by Larry Nielson of Ephraim 1998 ~~~ Milburn, Chester and Fountain Green Barns

 

Milburn Barn

 

Christian N. Lund ~~ Journals and Autobiography ~~~( Records from his bible )

Home of Niels Peter Nielson and wife Mary Diantha Davidson ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Verla Mikkelsen Marx 

Verla Mikkelsen Marx, who turned 102 on the 19th of October, 2016, returned home to Heavenly Father early Monday, Feb. 27, 2017.
Verla was the tenth child of Mickel Anton and Mary Ann Jensen Mikkelsen of Fountain Green. She was married to Wesley Phillip Marx (deceased Aug. 17, 1970) on July 27, 1933, in Manti, Utah, and their marriage was solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple on April 14, 1964.
Verla served her Heavenly Father in many capacities in the LDS church—as a teacher and president of the Primary, Relief Society, and Young Woman’s organizations. She served a mission in Beloit, Wisconsin, in the 1970s. She was employed by the Moroni Turkey Plant for several years after the death of her husband, and a few years later worked as head cook at the Sanpete Valley Hospital in Mt. Pleasant, where her excellent meals were a treat not only to the patients, but also to the doctors.
Verla is survived by her five children, 19 grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren. Her children are Anna La Raine (J. Whitney Redd of Monticello); Gordon Wesley Marx (Loretta Mae Smith) of Yakima, Washington; Helen Irene Sorensen of Brenda, Arizona; Farrel Eugene (Elizabeth Albarado), and Robert Andy (“Kay” Fredricksen) all of Monticello.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 11 a.m. in the Mt. Pleasant 2nd-3rd Ward Chapel. There will be a viewing on Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. and again on Saturday morning from 9-10:30 a.m. both at the church. Interment will be in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery following the services.

AN INCIDENT~~~ by Verla Mikkelsen Marx

 What was that! Mary Ann's eyes went wide with fear, but she knew she had to remain calm so she wouldn't frighten her younger brothers and sisters. The strange scratchy noise came again. What should she do? Her thoughts flew back to early morning and she heard her mother and father giving last minute instructions.

 "Mary Ann, Indians were sighted in the hills west of town this morning. We wish we didn't have to leave you alone today, "but this trip is necessary to get flour for winter, so be sure you do exactly as we tell you to. " Mother was putting things in the wagon as she spoke. 

Father came in and began giving her instructions on what her duties for the day would be. "Take good care of your younger sisters and brothers today. Make sure they stay close around home. Get the chores done before dark. Make sure the chickens, pigs, cow and calf are locked up tight in their pens at least a half an hour before dark. Then you take the little ones into the house, cover the windows and lock the door. 

If the Indians come this way they probably won't bother you unless they can see a light. " 

Mother and father had left early to get wheat ground into flour, and it always took a full day. They had to travel eight miles to the mill and the horses couldn't go faster than a walk with their heavy load. 

Mary Ann surely wished mother and father would get back. To calm her fears, she gathered her sisters and brothers around her on the bed. She would tell them a story. There was that noise again. This time the other children heard it too. 

Joe said, "I know, let's hide!" Mary Ann thought that was a good idea, so she turned the washtub over and hid her two sisters under that. Joe and George climbed into the loft and covered themselves with an old quilt. Mary Ann crawled under the bed.

 Now they could even hear voices. They all stayed very quiet for what seemed an eternity to Mary Ann. Finally, gathering all her courage, she lifted the corner of the blanket covering the window and looked out. 

There in the moonlight were her parents, taking care of the horses before coming into the house.

 Source: An incident in the life of Mary Ann Christine Jensen Mikkelsen

Ebbe Jessen and Anne Marie Bertelsen ~~~Pioneers of the Month ~~~ February 2016

 

Double Funeral for School Men

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Taken from Hilda's Scrapbook