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.

CLYDE STARK JASPERSON

1922-2016

Clyde Stark Jasperson born Aug 13, 1922 to Stephen Johnson Jasperson and Emma Stark Jasperson in Mona Utah. He was raised in Goshen Utah and was the 8^th child in a family of 6 girls and 4 boys. The son of a share cropper, he learned early the value of hard work raising sugar beets, grains, hay, and farm animals.

While attending high school in Payson, he occasionally went to dances in Tintic where we met his sweetheart Lorna Jean Mickelson.  Soon after they were married Clyde was drafted into the Army.   When WWII ended they bought a little house in Payson to raise their family.

Active in the LDS church, Clyde held numerous callings including Stake High Councilor and high Priesthood group leader. By far, their most cherished calling was being foster parents for Indian placement students Rachel, Charlotte, James and Larry.

Clyde worked over 35 years as a maintenance welder for Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company.  He enjoyed restoring old cars and doing wood working projects. For more than 30 years he had been a mainstay in the Payson Golden Onion Day parade, either carrying the American Flag for the American Legion or driving his restored Model A Ford.

He lived serving others welding broken equipment, making and giving away replica wagons and hand carts and sharing his garden with neighbors. Clyde and Lorna also volunteered many hours to help preserve and maintain the Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center in Payson. After 56 years of marriage Lorna suffered a stroke and was taken from him. Clyde enjoyed life and loved talking to family and friends.

On September 21, 2016 at the age of 94 Clyde quietly passed from this life to the next. He will be welcomed by the loving arms of our Father in Heaven, by his sweetheart Lorna Jean and other loving friends and family who have gone before him. 

He often spoke of his love for his family.  Surviving are his three children,  Andy Jasperson, (Joye) Jasperson,  (Curtis) Shirley Barrett, Jeff (Wendy) Jasperson, Brother, Kenneth (Barbara) Jasperson, 17 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren, 3 great-great-grandchildren, and 2 more babies on the way.

He was preceded in death by his wife Lorna, sisters, Alice, Lilian, Norma, Sadie, Lavon, Leona, brothers, Bert, Don, and a some perfect great-grandchildren who died before birth.

The family would like to thank members of the 3rd ward, neighbors and many friends including staff and patrons of Parkway Health who cared for Clyde with such warmth and kindness. 

Funeral Services will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept 26 2016 at the Payson 3^rd Ward, 274 South Main St.  A viewing will be held Sunday, Sept 25, 2016 at Walker Mortuary 587 S 100 W Payson from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and the day of service at the church from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Huntsman Cancer Foundation.  Online condolences at www.walkerpayson.com