Leah Eudora Widtsoe Durham died Monday evening March 6, 1995 surrounded by loving family members, of congestive heart failure.
Eudora was born July 4, 1912 in Logan, Utah daughter of John A. and Leah Dunford Widtsoe.She moved to Salt Lake City with her parents in 1916 and attended the William M. Stewart School on the University of Utah campus. In 1927 she accompanied her parents to England where Elder Widtsoe presided over the European Mission from 1927-1933. During these years she attended the Queen Anne School for Girls, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Alliance Francaise of the Sorbonne in Paris, and the University of Utah from which she graduated with a degree in elementary education.
In London, in the summer of 1933 she met G. Homer Durham whom she married in the Salt Lake Temple on June 20, 1936. They are the parents of three children, Carolyn W.D. Person, Doralee D. and Richard H. Madsen, George H. and Christine Durham, twenty grandchildren, eleven "grandchildren-in-love", and thirteen great-grandchildren. She and her husband lived in Westwood, California; Logan, Utah; Wallingford, Pennsylvania; Tempe, Arizona; and on numerous occasions--Salt Lake City, Utah. From 1960-69 she was the "first lady" of Arizona State University and from 1977-1985 accompanied her husband on worldwide assignments during his service as a member of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Durham passed away January 10, 1985.
Funeral services are planned for Friday, March 10, 1995, at 12 Noon, in the Salt Lake Bonneville Stake Center, 1535 East Bonneview Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah. Friends may call at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, Thursday, March 9th from 6-8 p.m. and at the stake center Friday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
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