Royal Lovell Garff, age 90, passed away October 17, 1994 at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Born June 22, 1904, in Draper, Utah, to Royal and Rachel Day Garff. Married Maxine Rice on June 2, 1948 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Garff, Professor Emeritus of Speech and Marketing joined the University of Utah in 1941. He earned both the MA and PhD degrees from Northwestern University. He taught for 32 years at the University of Utah.Dr. Garff has traveled over two million miles out of Salt Lake City speaking for conventions, dinner clubs, service and industrial groups in as many as 500 cities in the United States and Canada. He has written many articles on human relations and salesmanship that have been published nationally; a book, "You Can Learn to Speak", now in it's 18th printing with over 100,000 copies sold.
Board member for 25 years for the Cancer Society, and with the National Foundation for two years, also associated with the Red Cross, the Opera Board, and the March of Dimes. He was an Active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, member of the General Board of the YMMIA, Sunday School Teacher, and member of a Bishopric.
He is survived by his wife, Maxine Rice; daughter, Donna Marriott (J.W.) of Washington D.C., daughter, Joanne Hart (H. Ray), of Idaho Falls, Id., son, Dennis R. Garff, deceased, (Suzanne) of Washington D.C., daughter, Linda Rutter (J. Michael) of Phoenix, Ariz., brother, Kendall D. Garff, of Salt Lake City; and sister, Margaret Anderson, of Salt Lake City; 17 grandchildren; 16
great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, Oct. 20, 1994, at the Monument Park 15th Ward, 1320 Wasatch Drive. Friends may call Wednesday from 6-8 pm at the Larkin Sunset Lawn, 1300 South 2350 East, and Thursday at the ward from 12-12:45 pm prior to services. Interment, Wasatch Lawn Mem. Park, 3401 So. Highland Drive.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Royal L. Garff Scholarship Fund, Department of Communication, University of Utah, 50 North Medical Drive, #2753, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84132.
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