1907 ~ 2003
Lawrence Charles Stevens, age 95, died July 8, 2003 at a care center in Holladay (Salt Lake City), Utah.
He was the eldest child of John Paskett and Gertrude Wright Stevens, born December 22, 1907, at Henefer, Summit Co., Utah.
He grew up on a farm in Henefer and was tutored by his father, a farmer, a carpenter, and a Jack of All Trades. He was educated at the local school and at North Summit High School in Coalville, Utah. Later he completed a number of correspondence courses and seminars.
He married Myrtle Elma Aldous April 12, 1933, in the Salt Lake Temple. They became the parents of five children. Elma passed away September 23, 1968. He married Leah Helena Madsen Nielsen, June 18, 1969, in the Salt Lake City Temple. Leah died May 2, 2003.
During 1933 he was a construction foreman for the U.S. Government over a group of C.C.C. men building new forest roads in northeastern Utah's Uinta Mountains. Next he worked as maintenance foreman for the Utah State Road system in Summit County, Utah. In 1947 he joined the Carpenters' Union in Ogden, Utah, and worked at various locations as a carpenter until about 1954. During this time he completed several correspondence courses in real estate sales, estate planning, and insurance programming and passed the required examinations. He sold insurance and acted as a broker for a number of separate companies, which vocation he pursued until his retirement.
Activity in the L.D.S. church was a priority in his life. He served in two bishoprics, filled three stake missions, was a gospel doctrine class instructor and high priest group instructor, as well as filling numerous other positions in most of the several Utah wards where he resided. The locations were Henefer, Morgan, Sunset, Ogden, Orem, Heber City, Spanish Fork, and Provo. In 1975-1976 he and his second wife completed an 18-month mission to Georgia and Alabama.
He is survived by four children, and a daughter-in-law: Myrtle (Wendell) Hyde, Ogden, Utah; Mary (widow of Dale J. Stevens, now wife of Rich Steinkopf), Eagle Mountain, Utah; Nelean (Clyde Dennis) Meadows, Salt Lake City, Utah; Reta (Dennis) Wheeler, Riverton, Utah; and Stan (Evelyn) Stevens, Morgan, Utah; 28 grandchildren, 64 great-grand-children, and two great-great grand-children; also brother Edwin (Thelma) Stevens, Henefer, Utah; and sister Doris Clark, Warren, Utah.
He is also survived by three step-children: Ronald (Marsha) Nielsen, Cedar City, Utah; Phylinda (Earl) Jackson, Salt Lake City, Utah; Clyde (Norma) Nielsen, Spanish Fork, Utah; step-daughter-in-law Joan (widow of Bryce Nielsen) (Larkin) Hamilton, serving an L.D.S. mission in the Philippines; step-nephew Jesse (Martina) Coombs, Sandy, Utah; and their families. He was preceded in death by both of his wives, son Dale, sister Vera, brother Sydney and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 11:00 a.m. in the Cascade Chapel at Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 495 South State Street in Orem. A viewing will be held Saturday from 9:00 to 10:45 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment will be in the Henefer City Cemetery, Henefer, Utah.
In lieu of flowers suggest contributions to the
Dale J. Stevens Memorial Scholarship Fund. Make check payable to BYU. Mailed to BYU Department of Geography, 690 SWKT, Provo, UT, 84602.