Grant T. Teasdale, retired vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, and former resident of Salt Lake City, died Nov. 15, 1997, in Menlo Park, Calif., at the age of 89.
Born in Mesa, Arizona, raised in Salt Lake City, he graduated from the University of Utah with a BA in Business. He served a 33 month mission for the LDS Church in the German-Austrian Mission. He began his career in Salt Lake with First Security Bank as a loan officer. He joined Equitable in Los Angeles in 1947, as assistant loan officer, returning to Salt Lake in 1955, as loan supervisor. In 1962, he was promoted to Western Division Manager in San Francisco. At the time of his retirement in 1973, he was the vice president in charge of Western Division of the Mortgage and Loan Dept., making real estate loans on major income producing properties in 12 western states including Alaska and Hawaii. Following his retirement from Equitable, he joined Sonnenblick-Goldman Corp. as vice president. He also served as consultant senior vice president for Vicorp of San Diego. He was on the board of directors of the Deseret Trust Company of California for 22 years. He also served as president of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program in Palo Alto.His wife, Thera Fairbanks, preceded him in death in 1980. He is survived by his sister, Gladys Bringhurst of Logan; his sons, Gary, living in Israel; Grant, Bountiful and daughters, Joan Gutierrez of San Diego and Thera Ann Kirsch, Littleton, CO; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1105 Valpariaso Ave., Menlo Park, CA., on Friday, Nov. 21 at 12 noon.
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