Hannah Valgardson, age 78, died Friday, March 8, 1996 at the East Lake Care Center of Provo, surrounded by all of her sisters and her brother.
She was born April 21, 1917 in Spanish Fork, Utah; a daughter of Ephraim S. Valgardson and Sarah Peterson. She attended public schools in Spanish Fork and Canada.She retired from the Social Center as owner/operator after 45 years of service to the community. She had worked for the LDS Church at the Lion House and for president George Albert Smith as a housekeeper and cook. During World War II she worked for a munitions plant in Salt Lake.
Active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served in the South Eastern States Mission in 1938-39. She was a teacher in the Primary and Sunday School and served on the stake Sunday School board.
She was a kind, honest and a hard-working individualist. She loved children and was known as the candy lady to all the neighborhood children.
Survivors are two brothers and seven sisters, Paul Valgardson, Provo; Sara Ellen Hanks, Salem; Fay Bearnson, Spanish Fork; Bertha Johnson and Wilma Harmer, both of Springville; Elva Levanger, Sherman Bearnson, both of Spanish Fork; Geraldine Smith, Provo; and Norma Jones, Spanish Fork. Preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Mildred Hall and Bernice Bearnson.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Spanish Fork Stake Center, 1005 East 200 South, Spanish Fork. Friends may call Monday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Walker Mortuary and Tuesday one hour prior to services at the church. Burial will be in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
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