Mourning the Passing of Friends: Forthcoming Funeral Services

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller

Forthcoming funeral services are planned for the following friends from our community. Complete versions of these obituaries may be found in The Payson Chronicle and on our website at paysonchronicle.com.

Illa Fay Atwood Bascom

Together again at last forever.

Our dearest mother Illa passed away peacefully on November 11, 2016. Illa was born on October 27,1927 to Andrew David Atwood and Bessie Lenora Slaugh in the Naples, Vernal, Utah area. She was the third child and the first girl in a family of 6 children.

She married Raymon Owen Bascom on January 21,1946 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their marriage  was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. They have 7 children: Rayma Jean Bascom,  Robert (Sharon), Jerry Ann (Ken) Lance, Dale (Jeri), Barta Murry, Gayla (Bob) Carter, and Nina Pace. They have 34 grandchildren, 91 great-grandchildren and 17 great-great-grandchildren.

Once they were married, they lived in Vernal, Utah and later moved to Riverton, Wyoming. They also moved to Rupert, Idaho and later Spring Lake, Utah. They finally moved back to Vernal to stay in 1980. It was and always would be home to both of them.

When Illa was in high school she worked at a  little five and dime store called Pinkies. She attended and graduated from Uintah High School.

Illa has served in many church callings including Young Women leader, Primary and Relief Society teachers and leaders. She was a great help in compiling the "Spring Lake Archives" book about the residents of Spring Lake, both past and present.

Ray and Illa served a mission together in the Louisville, Kentucky mission. They also served in the Provo and Vernal temples.

Mom loved to sing. She had a beautiful voice. She loved poetry and collecting poems. She was a very loving and caring person and always tried to be positive and upbeat. She made the best homemade candy and treats. She was a great cook. Her fried chicken was so great on the picnics we used to take. She taught her children to love work and to work hard. She was a beautiful seamstress and made many of her own clothes and her children's clothes. She made many beautiful quilts. She was a beautiful artist and loved to paint.

Mom was preceded in death by her husband Raymon Bascom, her parents, her older brothers Larvin and Alburn, and her younger sisters Vivian and Wenda Nell. Also a great granddaughter Bailey, and a great-great granddaughter Taci Mae.

She is survived by her brother Dall Atwood and two wonderful sisters-in-law Donna Bascom and Carma Bryant, her children and many more loving family members.

We would like to thank the wonderful staff at Seasons of Santaquin for all their countless hours of love and care for mom as well as her hospice nurse Tangi Perry of First Choice Hospice for the loving, gentle and tender service to Mom in her greatest time of need.

A Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 1 p.m.  at the Maeser 2^nd Ward chapel 2575 North 1500 West, Maeser, Utah.  A Visitation will be held on Monday, November 14, 2016 from 6-8 pm at the Walker Mortuary in Payson, 587 South 100 West, and from 11:45 a.m. til 12:45 p.m. at the church prior to the service.  Interment will be held at the Dry Fork Cemetery, Dry Fork Cemetery Road, Vernal, Utah 84078. 

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.walkerobits.com