Grant Edgar Nielsen, age 81, passed away March 9, 1996, due to heart failure.
He was born on October 20, 1914 in Hyrum, Utah, to Edgar Nielsen and Anna Delorma Monsen. Grant spent his boyhood working on the family farm and dairy and hunting and fishing in the foothills and streams around Hyrum. He loved sports and the outdoors and excelled in all sports during his years at South Cache High School.He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Grant served the LDS Church in the Northern States Mission, including Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana and Canada from 1934 to 1936. In 1937 he married Ramona Allen Maughan in the Logan LDS Temple. They were divorced in 1965. Grant worked for many years in construction as a supervisor and general contractor in California and worked on such large projects as building the Alaskan Highway and on military construction projects on Midway Island, Hawaii, and Alaska, during World War II. Later, through his lifelong efforts to continually learn, Grant became certified as a real estate appraiser. He worked for the State of Utah in Taxation and the Right of Way Department for many years, facilitating much of the land acquisition for construction of the interstate highway system in Utah, until his retirement in 1979. He loved to hunt and fly-fish, and did so often in Utah and Wyoming. He was an avid sports fan.
Surviving are his children: daughter, Shirlee Hall, of Bountiful; and sons, G. Barry, of Vienna, Virginia; Steven L., of Bountiful; Douglas E., of Centerville; D. Michael, of Bountiful; and Mark J., of Moscow, Idaho. He is also survived by 25 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A daughter, Patricia Florence, died in 1944.
Family and friends may call in Bountiful at Russon Brothers Mortuary, 300 North Main Street, Wednesday evening, March 13, 6-8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 12 Noon, Thursday, March 14, at the Hyrum 2nd Ward Chapel, 450 E. 100 So., Hyrum. There will be a viewing beginning at 11 a.m. at the chapel prior to funeral services. Burial in the Hyrum City Cemetery.
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