Mary Lynn Jones Carstensen Dill, 87, died October 25, 1996 in Richfield, Utah.
She was born August 23, 1909 in Enoch, Utah to Hyrum and Maria Jane Armstrong Jones, the 15th and youngest child of a plural marriage.Lynn married Charles Orval Carstensen in Parowan, Utah, July 24, 1928, and to this union were born four children.
They lived their first married years in Ogden, Utah, then Salt Lake City, and in 1938, they purchased the Johnston Hotel in Richfield. She worked alongside her husband at the hotel and Slice 'em Thin's Restaurant.
Lynn came from a musical family and loved to sing and play the piano and organ. She sang with a double trio for many years. She was an excellent seamstress and enjoyed gardening and golfing.
She was a member of the LDS Church, Richfield Study Club, and the DUP. After Orval's death in 1970, she spent the winter with her brother, Rulon in Hemet, California. She returned each year and later met George E. Dill, Jr. They married May 7, 1982 and have lived in Richfield and St. George since then. George has been an exceptionally loving and tender husband, and caregiver during Lynn's illness.
She is survived by her husband; two daughters and two sons, Mary Jane (Neal) Mortensen; Patti Lou (Richard) Haslam; Charles Rodney Carstensen; Dr. Richard Orval (Susan) Carstensen (Captain, USN Retired); daughter-In-Law, Kathi O. Carstensen; 12 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 28, 1996 at 12 noon in the Neal S. Magleby & Sons Mortuary Chapel, 50 South 100 West, Richfield. Friends may call at the Magleby Mortuary Sunday evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and again on Monday morning from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Richfield City Cemetery.
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