Glen Sagers 1918 ~ 2010
Glen Sagers, 92, passed away Dec 23, 2010 in Provo, Utah. He was born Sept 13, 1918 in Lake View, Tooele County, Utah to Margaret Cameron and Robert Bruce Sagers Jr. He attended Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah for two years prior to accepting a call to the East Central States Mission, serving primarily in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. He was drafted into the Army in 1941 and assigned to the Medical Corps in Vancouver, Washington where he met Jennie Skelton at a church function. They were married July 23, 1942 in the Logan Temple. After the war, Glen remained in the active reserves and was promoted to the rank of Major in the Medical Administrative Corps. In January 1947, Glen was employed by the Utah State Department of Health and assigned to the Cedar City, Utah District. In the Spring of 1950, he was transferred to the Provo District. The City-County Health Department of Utah County was created effective January 1952 and Glen was appointed Chief Sanitarian of the department, a position he held until his retirement in 1983. He received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and taught "Public Health and Sanitation" as a Special Instructor in the BYU Microbiology Department from 1960 to 1982. He served faithfully in many capacities in the LDS Church, and later in life enjoyed church service missions to the LDS Employment Center and BYU Family History Library. He and his wife Jennie leave a wonderful legacy of genealogy research and family histories to their children and grandchildren. Glen loved working with his hands, building and fixing things, and growing flowers, tomatoes and cucumbers. He will be remembered by family and friends for his kindness, generosity, and service to others. Glen was preceded in death by his parents, sisters Dorothy Shields (Reed), Ella Watkins Swanson (Al), Vera Elfors (Joseph); brothers Verne Sagers, Bruce Sagers (Mildred), and Robert Gordon Sagers (Jean); his wife Jennie Skelton Sagers and his eldest daughter Diane Elenor Sagers (age 16 months). He is survived by daughters Lana Mikkelsen (William), Margaret Olauson (Douglas), Lee Anita Burnham (Paul), and Beverly Allred (Kenneth), brother Richard D. (Pauline) Sagers and sister Carol (Roger) Jensen, 23 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Monday, December 27, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in the Pleasant View 3rd Ward Chapel, 650 East Stadium Avenue, Provo. Friends may call at the church on Monday afternoon from 1:30 to 2:45. Interment will be in the Tooele City Cemetery, Tuesday, December 28, at 11:00 a.m. Condolences may be emailed to the family at info@bergmortuary.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Humanitarian Fund or Missionary Fund of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.