SALT LAKE CITY/LYMAN, Utah--Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Cena Arilla Chappell Maxfield Paulsen Williamson, age 83, died peacefully at her home in Salt Lake City, September 14, 1999, surrounded by family and loved ones.
She was born October 15, 1915 in Lyman, Utah, a daughter of Charles Sperry and Pearl Mansfield Chappell. She enjoyed a happy childhood in Lyman and married Reed Maxfield on October 5, 1932. They spent 24 years together, rearing their three sons, Arvin Reed (Urla Jeane), Charles Richard (Jackie), and Kevin Leon (Debbie); and their four daughters, Maxine (Clyde) Konold, Pearl LaRae Holbrook, Carolyn Holbrook, and Kenra (Randy) Stansfield, before Reed drowned in 1957.She moved to Salt Lake City and met and married Glen Ferrill Paulsen on May 29, 1965. Glen passed away November 18, 1973. She spent the last 20 years of her life with her constant companion and devoted husband, Harold Williamson, whom she married June 4, 1979.
Mother loved music and playing the piano, steel guitar, spoons and harmonica, all by ear and all self taught. Our homes are filled with the treasures she made and we feel her love as we wrap ourselves in the beautiful, warm afghans and blankets she made for us. We will miss the food that only Mother could prepare. We all say that she could make a meal out of nothing.
She was preceded in death by her two brothers, Wayne Chappell and Blain Chappell, and two sons-in-law. She leaves a great posterity of seven children, 29 grandchildren and 43 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 18, 1999 at 1 p.m. in the Lyman LDS Ward Chapel, Lyman, Utah. Friends may call for viewing at the Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple in Salt Lake City, Thursday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. and at the ward chapel in Lyman, Saturday morning from 11 to 12:30 prior to services. Burial will be in the Lyman Cemetery under the direction of the Springer Turner Funeral Home of Richfield and Salina, Utah.