"Always Kind"
Bonnie A. Caldwell, 69, passed away Monday, December 9, 2002 surrounded by her family at her home in American Fork, Utah after a lengthy and debilitating illness.
Born June 22, 1933 in Denver, Colorado to Leland Myers and Geneva Wight Adamson, the oldest of four daughters. She attended schools in Denver and Craig, Colorado, graduated from Uintah High School in Vernal, Utah and attended Brigham Young University. Bonnie met her husband, C. Max Caldwell, in Vernal where they were high school sweethearts. They married September 2, 1952 in the Salt Lake Temple. They observed their 50th Golden Wedding anniversary with all of their children, grandchildren, great-grandson and spouses, September 2, 2002.
Bonnie was born a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a child she accompanied her Relief Society president mother everywhere and was taught by her to be kind to people and to love and be helpful to everyone. She was taught to look for opportunities to serve others and to be faithful in church responsibilities. Those teachings became a permanent part of her caring nature. A year after her marriage, her husband was called to serve a full-time mission for two years. She stayed at home with her parents while supporting him in his call. Six months after he left, she gave birth to a son (Randall Max). Due to birth complications, he died after living only ten hours. During her lifetime she served in Primary, Relief Society and Young Women presidencies and as a teacher, chorister and organist. She served as a temple ordinance worker for many years in the Provo Utah Temple and served with her husband as a missionary for three years when he was President of the Great Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission. Later her husband was called to be a General Authority and she was set apart as a Special Representative of the Relief Society, Primary and Young Women's general boards. In that role she traveled extensively with her husband in Europe, the Philippines and many of the islands of the Pacific where she trained and assisted others to understand and be effective in their auxiliary organization responsibilities. Wherever she went she spoke to audiences of church members and friends. She was admired by all as a caring and dedicated woman with a beautiful smile. Bonnie was a homemaker following the birth of her first daughter and provided her children with the benefits of her many homemaking skills as well as her love and interest in them individually. She always cared for their happiness as she encouraged and praised them in all of their appropriate activities and pursuits of life.
Bonnie was preceded in death by her father, Leland Myers Adamson and her son, Randall Max. She is survived by her husband, Max; two daughters, Teri Lee (Steve) Olsen, Plain City, Utah; Tami Lyn (Steve) Van Dusen, Brigham City, Utah; sons, Richard (Marcy Ann), Payson, Utah; Robert (Carrie Ann), Vernal, Utah; 15 grandchildren; one great-grandson; sisters, Jeanene Davis, Highland, Utah; Claudia (Lewis) Black, Blanding, Utah; Soni (Fred) Babbel, American Fork, Utah; mother, Geneva Wight Adamson, Orem, Utah; brothers-in-law, Lee (Sue) Caldwell, Bountiful, Utah; Roy (Marilyn) Caldwell, Vernal, Utah.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 13, 2002, 1:00 p.m. at the American Fork East Stake Center, 825 East 500 North, American Fork, Utah. Friends may call Thursday, December 12, 2002, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at McDougal Funeral Home, 4330 South Redwood Road, Taylorsville, Utah and Friday at the church in American Fork, 11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Interment, Dry Fork Cemetery, Vernal Utah on Saturday, December 14, 2002.