Mary Smith North Ward, loving mother, wife, daughter, passed away on December 16, 1998 from natural causes. She will be dearly missed by all those who's lives she enriched.
Mary was born October 22, 1914 in Holladay, Utah, the daughter of George Carlos and Lillian Emery Smith. Married Dallas Warren North in October 1935. Marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple on May 2, 1938. Dallas preceded her in death September 4, 1959.Mary held many significant callings within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but most notably loved music as a ward organist for over 50 years, under nine different bishops and played for 109 funerals. She was very proud of winning the Granite District piano contest while in school.
Mary worked most of her life as a secretary. Her last and longest position was for the LDS Church offices, five years in the Genealogy Dept., and 19 years as executive secretary to head of the church building department. It was there that she met her second husband, John Paul Ward. They married May 20, 1965. They shared 30 years together in the latter part of their lives, residing in Sugarhouse. John preceded her in death on September 30, 1995. Mary knew personally five presidents of the church, one her uncle, Joseph Fielding Smith, and her grandfather, Joseph F. Smith.
Mary is survived by her sons, Richard Dallas North (DeLynn) of West Valley City; Brent Warren North (Barbara) of Cottonwood Heights; David Smith North (Margaret) of West Jordan; and Jerry Wayne North (Joy) of Salt Lake City; also stepchildren, Joan Watson (Robert) of Oregon; Don Ward (Christine) of Alaska; Boyd Ward (Janene) of Richfield, UT; and Gary Ward (Saundra) of Pennsylvania. She has 61 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren. Also survived by brothers, Wilford Emery Smith (Ruth), Ralph Warren Smith, and sisters-in-law, Lavon Smith, Dorothy Anderson and Leah Smith. Preceded in death by brothers, George Carlos Smith, Jr., Emery Fielding Smith and Reed Emery Smith, and by sisters, Lillian Boyce, Florence Anderson, Ina Wilson, Eleanor Summerhill and Donna Smith.
Funeral services will be held Monday, December 21, 1998 at Holladay Cottonwood Mortuary, 4670 Highland Drive at 11 a.m. Friends and family may call Sunday, December 20, from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to service. Interment, Holladay Memorial Cemetery.
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