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 also be found in The Payson Chronicle.

Veola Memmott Hansen

Veola, 80, our angel mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend passed away on February 13. 2018, in Provo, Utah  She was born in Scipio, Utah, to Eugene and Lillie Memmott.  She married Carroll Dean Hansen in the Salt Lake Temple in 1956.

In high school she was known as "The Girl with the Golden Voice."  Veola graduated from Delta High School in 1956 and met and married her sweetheart, Carroll Dean Hansen that same year in the Salt Lake Temple. Together they had six children: Diana, Teena, Linda, Ray, Tammy, and Russell.  Veola was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her entire life and served in many callings including Stake Missionary, Singing Mothers Chorister, Young Woman's Leader, Primary President, and Visiting Teacher. She carried a heavy load when her husband, Carroll became ill with Huntington's disease and she was left to care for him while continuing to raise five teenage children. Her husband passed away in 1990.

She worked at a Salt Lake cleaners where she had the opportunity to serve President Thomas S. Monson and enjoyed the association with him. In 2000, she purchased a condo in Payson, Utah where she lived the remainder of her life with her daughter Teena, and her son-in-law Randy after their marriage. Veola worked as a Foster Grandparent at Barnett Elementary and was loved by the children she served there. In 2014, she was diagnosed with kidney failure and began a difficult journey of dialysis treatments to prolong her life.

She was an example of endurance, courage, and faith to all who knew her. She will be greatly missed by friends and family who drew strength from her and the testimony she had of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

She was preceded in death by three of her children, Russell, Linda (John), and Tammy (Gary) and is survived by three of her children, Diana Hsu, Teena (Randy) Searle, and Ray Hansen, as well as 20 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren.

Viewings will be Friday February 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and then again on Saturday, February 17, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Funeral services will be at 11:00 am, Saturday February 17 at the Mountain View First Ward Chapel on 1138 East 100 South, Payson, UT. She will be buried at Memorial Estates Cemetery in Salt Lake City, UT.

Condolences may be sent online at www.serenityfhs.com