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.

Maureen Davis

Our wonderful mother, Thelma Maureen Nelson Davis passed away April 26, 2018 in Salt Lake City, UT.  She was born May 27, 1927 in Genola, Utah to Radcliffe and Thelma Rosley Nelson.  She was the oldest of 10 children. She learned to work at an early age and continued to work and serve others throughout her life.  Recently, when her health declined she would say “the hardest work I’ve ever done was nothing.”  She attended school in Genola and Goshen and graduated from Payson High School. She married Carroll Hardy Davis, August 31, 1945 in the Salt Lake Temple. They made their home and raised their seven children in Genola, Utah. She was known far and wide for her homemade bread, sewing skills, beautiful flower gardens, and her service to all.  She was the champion of the underdogs and lifted all who struggled in life.

She served faithfully in the LDS church in many church callings including teacher, Primary President, Young Women’s President, and Relief Society President. She and her husband served a mission to Phoenix, Arizona and served several years as service missionaries in Eureka, Utah.  Her faith and testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as temple service is her legacy.

She was preceded in death by her husband, grandsons Steven Davis, James Davis, great granddaughter Lexi Henriksen, parents and four siblings Arnold, Claris Ann, Buriness, & Gilbert Nelson.  She is survived by Richard (Renee) Davis, Genola; Dale (Mary Ann) Davis, Phoenix; Dee Ann (Al) Jensen, Draper; Carolyn (Bruce) Leishman, Logan; Darwin (Susan) Davis, Phoenix; Jane (Kent) Nate, Salt Lake City, Dwight (Joyce) Davis, Hyrum. She is also survived by her brothers Ronald, Darrell, Don, Gerry, and Jerry Nelson.

There will be a viewing on Friday, May 4, 2018 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Brown Family Mortuary,  66 S 300 E, Santaquin, Utah and Saturday, May 5, 2018 9:00 to 10:45 am at the Genola LDS Church, 50 North Main Street, Genola, UT 84655.  Funeral services will begin at 11:00 am.  Interment will be in the Santaquin Cemetery. Share condolences at www.brownfamilymortuary.com.

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.

Arza Curtis Page Jr.

Arza Curtis Page Jr. (91) passed away peacefully at the Seasons of Santaquin Senior Living Center on Thursday, April 26, 2018 of natural causes. He was born December 31, 1926 in Payson, Utah to Arza Curtis Page Sr and Ethel Adele Taylor, the youngest of six children. He is reunited with his wife, Evelyn, who passed away in March of this year.

Curtis was raised in Payson and graduated from Payson High School in 1944. He worked in the family apple orchard as a young man, spraying and irrigating along with the men.
Curtis joined the US Navy in 1944 at the age of 17, and was sent to Norman, Oklahoma to attend the Naval Air Technical Training Center. He trained as an Aviation Ordinanceman, studying all types of ordinance. He was also trained on radar systems, learning to interpret the images on radar screens. Shortly before leaving Oklahoma, Curtis was accepted into a newly opened pilot training program, but the surrender of Germany cancelled the program two days before he reported. He then reported to Orote Naval Air Base in Guam, where he spent the remainder of his service as a firefighter.

When his Navy enlistment ended, Curtis returned to Payson and then enrolled in the USAC in Logan, later Utah State University. After one year in Logan, he was called on a mission to the New England States, where he served in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. He and his companions were some of the last missionaries to serve without purse or scrip and were often the first LDS missionaries called to these areas.

Curtis returned home in 1949 and enrolled at Brigham Young University, where he graduated with a degree in Marketing in 1952. During this time, he began dating Evelyn Ellsworth, another Payson native, and in June 1952 they were married. Evelyn and Curtis had two sons, Stanley Ellsworth and Steven Curtis.

Curtis worked construction at Dugway and the Tooele Ordinance Depot while attending college. After graduating, he worked as an Assistant Bank Manager for Commercial Bank of Payson. Curtis and Evelyn moved to Las Vegas in 1953, where he worked as a Purchasing Agent for a large chemical plant. They moved to Ogden in 1959, where he worked as a Buyer for Thiokol Chemical Company. He advanced quickly, becoming responsible for contract negotiations for the purchase of all propellant chemicals for the Minuteman Ballistic Missile program. They returned to Las Vegas in 1963, where Curtis worked as a Purchasing Agent for three companies, then moved back to Ogden in 1967 to work again for Thiokol, where Curtis managed all contracts and material for the remodeling of the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot into a 1200-man training school for the US Department of Labor. He retired from Thiokol in 1978 and opened a Tunex franchise in West Valley City, which he operated for four years before retiring permanently.

In 1980, Curtis and Evelyn bought the Ellsworth family home in Payson, where they lived until their passing in 2018. Curtis loved hunting and fishing and considered Payson canyon to be God’s country. His goal was to be a good father and provider and considered his family to be his greatest blessing.

Curtis was preceded in death by his siblings Edna Page, Fred Taylor Page (Patricia), Florence Tippetts (Twain), and Louise Page. He is survived by his sister Mary Gibson (Floyd), of Fresno, California, his sons Stanley Ellsworth Page (Lanna) and Steven Curtis Page (Arlene), grandchildren Tyson Page (Courtney), Amanda Provstgaard (Thomas), Hayden Page (Crystal), Eric Page (Shaunna), Rebecca Dennis (Nicholas), Matthew Page (Faith) and ten great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 11 a.m. at the Payson 14th Ward Chapel,  110 South 300 West, Payson, Utah. A visitation will be held prior to service from 10-10:45 a.m. Interment will be held at the Payson City Cemetery.  Services are in the care of Walker Funeral Home.

Condolences may be sent to www.walkerobits.com

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.

J Clyde Gay

J Clyde Gay age 79 of Salem, UT passed away April 27, 2018 at home. He was born June 6, 1938 in Payson to James and Virginia Scott Gay. He graduated from Payson High School and LDS Seminary. He joined the US Army upon graduation. He married Wilma Johnson on June 21, 1958 in the Bern Switzerland Temple. He was employed by Hercules while attending school. During the majority of his career he was employed with General Electric until his retirement.

Clyde loved his family and loved serving the Lord as a faithful member of the LDS Church in many positions including his service at the Provo and Payson temples.

He is survived by his wife Wilma, children Wayne (Judy) Gates, Wesley Johnson and Lisa (Terrance) Orr, seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; sisters Connie (Dale) Saunders, LaVonna (David) Partridge and Betty (Lynn) Benson.

A viewing will be held on Wednesday, May 2 from 6-8 pm at Walker Funeral Home 187 S Main, Spanish Fork. Services will be held Thursday, May 3 at 11 am at the LDS Chapel at 25 W Apple Blossom Way, Salem with viewing prior from 9-10:30 am. Interment at Salem City Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to the family at walkerobits.com

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.

JULIE WEST STAHELI

Julie West Staheli passed away at her home on April 23rd, 2018. She was born on June 25, 1939 in Payson, Utah where her parents, Lucille McMullin West and Ray B. West Jr. had travelled from Cedar City for the event. After Julie was born, the family moved on to Ogden where Julie’s father taught English. This move would set the pattern for the rest of Julie’s life and she would go on to live in Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, California, Innsbruck, Austria, Salzburg, Austria and Cannes, France, as well as various other places on-location designing costumes for stage and film. 

During Julie’s young life, her family would return to Utah every summer to visit relatives.  In her 16th  year Julie met a farm boy, decided he was “the one” and asked him on a date. That date would last for the next 63 years. Julie’s passion was the creative process and she would turn her new boyfriend into an artist rather than a student studying forestry and playing football at Utah State University.  On Valentine’s day, 1959 Julie and Paul eloped to Las Vegas and were married. Over the following years, they would have four children: Sarah, Heather, Jessica and Joshua. 

Paul graduated from USU in 1962 and earning that degree was a joint effort: Paul attended the classes and took the tests and Julie wrote the papers! During their college days Julie took classes in the Art Department as well as worked in the Theater Arts Department’s costume shop and acted in several productions. Her work in the costume shop was where she discovered her affinity for costume design and the experience earned her a position at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Julie was then hired as a guest lecturer in costuming and designed the costumes for the university’s production of “Hamlet” to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th birthday. That year the Corvallis Arts Center also gave her a one-woman show of her paintings. Julie returned to Ashland one more time for the 1965 theater season, this time designing and building the armor, jewelry and crowns used in the plays that season.

Over the next few years, Julie would go on to design costumes for the Millan Theatre Company in Detroit, Michigan, the Citadel Theater in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. During this time her paintings and costume renderings were also shown at several galleries in the San Francisco Bay area.
In the Fall of 1970 Julie and her family moved to San Diego where she taught costume design, construction, and elements of design at the United States International University, School of Performing Arts. This was a busy and fruitful time as Julie also designed costumes for Star Light Opera Company, The Old Globe Theater and the San Francisco Opera traveling company, as well as gave birth to her third daughter. 

In 1972 Julie moved into designing for film. Her first was an educational film for Encyclopedia Britannica, followed by a bicentennial film for the US post office.  During this time she also took classes in ceramics, weaving, porcelain doll making, and stained glass making – all of which would remain creative mediums for the rest of her life. 

Julie then spent the next several years as costume designer for Sunn Classic Pictures, designing a number of NBC mini-series. One mini-series - “Greatest Heroes of the Bible” - was shot on location in Page, Arizona. Later Julie would say that she hired “every lady in Page who could sew” so they could build the hundreds of biblical costumes needed for the show.

During those years, the family lived in Park City where Julie continued to pursue her passion for creativity, taking art classes at the Kimball Art Center. One of her paintings titled “Portrait of the Artist’s Family with the Artist Conspicuously Missing” was featured in the Salt Lake Tribune’s review of the Park City Kimball Arts Festival. This painting remains a favorite of her family and her conspicuous absence is felt deeply.

Over the rest of her life, Julie would continue to design costumes for feature films and the first season of the “Father Dowling” TV series, but she always pursued her own creative endeavors and the family home in Payson became one of her artistic passions. Julie made stained glass windows for the Victorian home and for her tree house, where she would retreat to write without interruption. This was a particularly productive time for her creativity: her short story “Killer Horses” won first place in the William Van Wert Award for Fiction from Hidden River Arts; several of her stories where recognized by the League Utah Writers Guild, and she was published in Irreantum, a Mormon literary magazine. San Francisco’s Troubador press also published her educational coloring book titled “Kachina Dolls: Color and Cut-Out Collection Adapted from Hopi Originals” for which Julie created all the art work and wrote the text.

Julie also transformed the grounds of the family’s home into a park-like setting, which drew friends and family from as close as across town to as far away as Paris for her yearly Labor Day gathering. Julie loved being surrounded by her loved ones, family and friends alike, and this gathering has provided many fond memories.

Julie always set the bar high for herself in everything she did, whether it was her art, her writing, her costume design, her doll-making, her gardening or her mothering of her four children. She is deeply missed and is survived by her husband, Paul Staheli; her four children, Sarah Boyle, Heather Staheli, Jessica Staheli and Joshua Staheli; and her seven grandchildren Christopher Ezell, Matthew Staheli, Nicholas Ezell, Austin Ezell, Austin Travis, Madelyn Boyle and Audrey Boyle.

The Payson Chronicle

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.

Terry "Gus" Cook

Terry Clifton “Gus” Cook, age 62 of Goshen, passed away April 21, 2018.  He was born April 28, 1955 in Nephi, Utah to Vivian Doyle and Marjorie Jean Peterson Cook.

Terry has always been a driven, hard-working man.  In his early years he started off by hauling hay and sheering sheep.  He then went on to become a city cop and Mr. Fix It city worker.  He could do it all.

In 1985 he found and married the love of his life, Tammy Hansen.  He always said , “She sure swept me off my feet”.

He went on pursuing his passion for cars.  He opened TNT Auto Body and ran his business for 32 years.  He really had a drive to restore things.  He loved taking old cars and make them show-stopping.  Anyone who knew him had a story about a car he built.  He always made sure to go out and keep the spirits alive of our town.  Burn outs for everyone! “Sowing his royal oats” even when he missed a gear.  He had a love for fast cars and his “horses under the hood”.  He always enjoyed watching his boys and grandkids tearing up the race track.  He was always the first to cheer you on or the first to give a good ass chewing.

He was an amazing family man that was always there to help.  He could always come up with the solution to any problem.  He always had us dragged into his new ideas and projects.  But the ending was always beautiful.  His advice and strong will will be deeply missed.

“He will forever be racing in the clouds!”

He is survived by his loving wife, Tammy; children, Jason (Tawsha) Cook, Tye (Mandy) Cook, Dennis Cook, Tiffany Cook, Teri Sue (Ean) Erskine and Tuff Cook; 14 grandkids; an adopted son, Brian Wortman; and his dedicated grand-dog Rambo.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 28th at 11:00 am at the Goshen LDS Church, 75 So. Center.  Friends may call at the Brown Family Mortuary, 66 South 300 East, Santaquin Friday 6:00 to 8:00 pm and Saturday at the church 9:45 to 10:45 am prior to services. Burial, Goshen Cemetery. Share condolences and memories at www.brownfamilymortuary.com.

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.

Nicolas H Varela

Nicolas H Varela, 86, of Payson, Utah passed away on April 3, 2018 in Provo Utah. He was born on March 22, 1932 in San Ignacio, Chihuahua, Mexico to Ladislado Varela and Adelaida Holguin. Nicolas attended school in San Ignacio, Chihuahua, Mexico.

On October 28,1961 he married Maria Magdalena Silos in Chihuahua, Mexico. Nicolas worked as a police officer in Chihuahua, a farmer, miner and security guard at Tintic mines in Eureka.

He loved fishing, rodeos, road trips to Mexico and family get togethers. Family time was most important to him. He loved to garden and was known for his chilies. He was very friendly and accepted new friends openly into his family. He was a great example to his children and grandchildren. He taught them the value of hard work and the importance of family.

Nicolas was a very active church member and also a member of the Knights of Columbus at the San Andres Catholic Church. He enjoyed helping with the meals and projects.

He is survived by his wife Maria Magdalena, children; Jesus, (Guadalupe) Varela, Joel Varela, Linda Leiva, Nancy Liufau (Don), 14 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren and siblings; Florentino Varela, Candido Varela, Soccoro Ayala, and Angelita Molina.

Nicolas was preceded in death by his daughter Eva Irene Varela Acosta and brother Rafael Varela.

Mass will be held at San Andres Catholic Church on Monday, April 9, 2018 at 11 a.m. A vigil will be held on Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 5 p.m. and a rosary at 5:30 p.m. at Walker Funeral Home, 587 South 100 West, Payson, Utah.  A visitation will be held after rosary from 6-8 p.m. A visitation will also be held prior to mass at 10 a.m. Interment will be held at the Payson City Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to www.walkerobits.com

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.

Emily Amada Quijano (Almiron) and Gabriel James Almiron 

Emily Amada Quijano and her son Gabriel James Almiron died together on September 8, 2015.  Emily was born to Brenda Bills Marsh and Jesse Anthony Quijano Sr. on December 31, 1991 in Mission Viejo, California.  Emily was a beautiful and talented young woman.  Her friends knew her to be devoted, dependable and loyal. Many benefited from her strength, goodness and her frank advice.  To her sister she was the model of the cool, popular girl.  As parents, we watched her in proud amazement as she lived life fearlessly and with panache.  Emily’s gifts were strongly apparent soon after she was born.  She was independent, highly intelligent, fun, and always a performer.  In all her endeavors, she was capable and confident.  Emily did well in school and could handle large workloads balancing school, activities, and work with ease.  Time with Emily was fun.  She loved to entertain us with her singing and she had a uniquely clever sense of humor that kept everyone smiling and laughing and anticipating what she would say next.  Emily lifted people up.  She was not one to bicker or complain, but she problem solved and made things work.  Emily’s passion was definitely music.  She loved to sing in her school performance groups and she learned to play many instruments including the piano, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, and not to be forgotten, her toy accordion.  She is best known for her awesome rock and roll performances.  Emily had an uncanny gift for memorizing and her repertoire of songs she sang seemed endless.  She appreciated all genres of music and was well educated in music history.  She was the ultimate music trivia champion.  Emily’s greatest loves were her son, Gabriel and her dog, Titan.  Emily was a gentle, patient and loving mother of Gabriel.  He was the joy of her life.  She loved watching him play, and as she did she would giggle and joke in her clever unique way.  At the time of their death, Emily was working full time and going to the Utah School of Massage Therapy hoping that she would be able to work at home in order to have more time with Gabe.  It is a comforting, peaceful thought that she now has that time with him that she wanted so much and was working so hard for.

Gabriel was born to Emily and Fabian Ezekiel Almiron on April 21, 2012 in Orem, Utah.  He was an absolute joy in all of our lives.  We were blessed with his sweetness, his giggles and laughter.  He loved to rough house with his dad and play at his grandmas’ homes.  His blankies went everywhere with him, all four of them.  Some of our special memories are of family outings like boating and bowling, which he loved.  Just like his mama, he loved dinosaurs, and our homes were filled with his dinosaur toys and his fearsome roars.  His excitement and enthusiasm made every day full of new wonder as seen through his eyes.  His ability to show tenderness and compassion was remarkable in one so young.  We will always remember his raspy squeals of delight, his gentleness, his beautiful grey eyes, and his smile.  We cherish the many memories we have with Gaby.  He loved his family and he was loved and adored by us all.  

Emily and Gabe were not with us long enough, but we know we will be reunited with them again as family, and in this we find peace and our greatest gratitude.   

Emily is survived by parents Brenda Bills (Cody) Marsh of Payson, Jesse Anthony (Diana) Quijano Sr. of San Bernardino; her siblings Rachel “Libby” Quijano, Jesse Quijano Jr., Reyna Quijano, Juan Quijano, Alexis Trujillo; grandparents Frank Lynn and Karen Weeks Bills and Amada Quijano.

Gabriel is survived by his father Fabian (Ruby) Almiron of SLC; his brother Isaac Wesley Almiron; grandparents Juan Carlos and Maria Almiron.  

Our sincerest thanks to Chief of Lindon P.D. Josh Adams, Sergeant Nick Thomas, Officer Tom Wallace, the Orem Police Dept., Special Agents John Doughty and Brian Kimball, Ruth Clegg, Alyssa Newberry and the FBI, attorneys Sam Pead and Laura Hunt, and all who are working hard to bring Emily and Gabriel’s remains home.  

A memorial service for Emily and Gabriel will held May 26, 2018 at 1:00 pm at the LDS stake building on 711 South 600 East in Payson, Utah.  There will be a meet and greet at 11:45 in the Relief Society room prior to the services.

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.

Carol Ann Ottesen Ewell

On March 31, 2018, our mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, Carol Ann Ottesen Ewell, passed away.  Carol was born, raised, and lived most of her life in Payson, Utah.  She loved it there!

When Carol was fourteen, she met her eternal companion, Keith James Ewell.  They dated off and on throughout high school.  While Keith was away serving a mission for the LDS Church, Carol went to Weber State College to study nursing.  She broke up with Keith during this time and he broke up with her.  It was not to stay that way.  When Keith returned home, he found Carol at Weber State.  On June 22, 1963, he asked her to marry him, and on October 1, 1963 they were sealed for Time and All Eternity in the Salt Lake Temple.

After their wedding, they moved to St. George where they were employed running a motel.  It didn’t last long, however, and before three years passed, they moved back to Carol’s hometown never to move permanently again.

Carol loved to cook and garden.  It was not a chore for her. She could always be found looking at either garden or cooking magazines.  She rarely made a recipe as it was written, but always changed it, and sometimes she would just make one up.  In the summer you could either find her in the garden, in the house canning, or on a drive in the car.  She loved going up Payson Canyon to Bald Mountain Overlook to see the bluebirds.

Later in life, Carol went on a mission with Keith to serve in the LDS Employment Center in Spanish Fork, Utah.  Carol loved the gospel and she could often be found reading The Book of Mormon.  She served faithfully throughout her life; including as Relief Society President under the direction of two bishops.

Carol was preceded in death by her husband, Keith James Ewell; her mother, Louise Miller Ottesen; her father, Hubert Ottesen; and her sister, Joyce Annette Ottesen.  She is survived by her children, James K. and Leslie Ewell, Keven H. and Allison Ewell, Christina and Paul Bates, and Clarissa and Daniel Flink; her sisters, Connie Christensen and Arleen Sink; her brother, Steven Ottesen; and 13 grandchildren.

The family would like to thank First Choice Hospice, and especially Mary Kay, for their tender care and service.

A viewing will be held in her honor at Walker Funeral Home, 587 South 100 West, Payson, Utah on Wednesday evening, April 4, from 6:30-8:00 p.m.  Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 5, at 11:00 a.m. at the Payson 1^st Ward Chapel, 225 South 400 South, Payson, with a viewing prior to the service from 9:45-10:45 a.m.   Interment will be in the Payson City Cemetery.

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

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.

Evelyn Ellsworth Page

Evelyn Ellsworth Page (89) passed away peacefully at her home on Thursday, March 29, 2018 of natural causes. She was born July 28, 1928 in Payson, Utah to Wilford James Ellsworth and Cloketa Pickering Ellsworth, the fourth of six children.

Evelyn was raised in Payson and graduated from Payson High School in 1946. She married Arza Curtis Page, Jr, another Payson native, on July 10, 1952.

Evelyn and Curtis moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953, where their first child, Stanley Ellsworth, was born. In 1959, they moved to Ogden, Utah, where their second child, Steven Curtis, was born. They moved to Las Vegas in 1963, then returned to Ogden in 1967 and remained there until 1980, when Curtis retired, and they purchased the Payson home of Evelyn’s parents. She remained in Payson until her passing.

Evelyn worked as a secretary at the Pacific States Cast Iron plant in Provo for several years, and while living in Ogden she worked as a substitute teacher at various elementary schools in the area. She also worked part time as a real estate agent in the Ogden area. In 1974, they started their own business in West Valley, Utah, where Evelyn kept the books and helped with general business operations for four successful years. After their return to Payson, Evelyn worked as a legal secretary for Bill Hansen, a local attorney.

Evelyn loved music and had a beautiful singing voice, and for many years she sang with a group of her friends at many local events. When her children began taking piano lessons, she signed up as well, becoming proficient enough to inspire her children in their lessons.

Evelyn became interested in learning Spanish and, while living in Ogden, enrolled in several Spanish courses at Weber State College. This led to many friendships with her classmates, as well as several drag races with local college students, who admired her 1964 GTO.

Evelyn was active in the arts, and for many years participated in the Junior Cultus Club organization. She enjoyed “going to Club” and had many lifelong friends among the club members.

Evelyn was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1989 she and Curtis served a mission in the Philippines, where they opened the new Philippines Naga mission as the office couple. She learned to love the people that land and maintained many close ties to the people and missionaries from that time. Many of the missionaries called her the Mission Mom, a title she loved.

Evelyn’s first, best love was her family. She was a wonderful wife and mother and had a talent for getting the best from her children and their friends. Many of her children’s friends called her Mom, and they often spent time at her house because of the love and fun that was there.

Evelyn was preceded in death by daughter-in-law Lanna Page, infant granddaughter, her siblings Howard Pickering Ellsworth (Marilyn), Kenton Wilford Ellsworth (Louise), and Verdene Page Wilson (Lynn, Keith). She is survived by her husband, Curtis Page, her sister Deanna Clark Stokes, her children Stanley Ellsworth Page and Steven Curtis Page, grandchildren Tyson Page (Courtney), Amanda Provstgaard (Thomas), Hayden Page (Crystal), Eric Page (Shaunna), Rebecca Dennis (Nicholas), Matthew Page (Faith) and twelve great-grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 1 p.m. at the Payson 15th Ward Chapel, 650 West  800 South, Payson, Utah. A visitation will be held prior to services from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  at the chapel. Interment  will be held at the Payson City Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to www.walkerobits.com