Obituary: DOXEY, GRAHAM

Graham W. DoxeyMarch 30, 1927 - Oct. 13, 2013Graham was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as the second child of Graham Hayes Doxey and Leone Blanche Watson Doxey with an older sister Marjorie Doxey Hatch (deceased) and two younger brothers David Doxey and Roger Doxey. He grew up in Salt Lake City until his senior year of high school when his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky for his father to serve as a mission president. After high school he joined the Navy and went to China to serve at the end of WWII. Following his military service he was called on a mission, again to Louisville. He spent most of his mission in North Carolina and Virginia.Graham married Mary Louise Young on June 22, 1950, and together began a remarkable family experience. They are the parents of 12 children (1 deceased), 84 grandchildren (3 deceased), and 92 great-grandchildren. His surviving children are Diane Jones (Max), Carol Richards (Stephen), Marilee Page (Richard), Graham (Donna), Robert (Denise), Lisa Patch (Timothy), Scott (Annelle), Margaret Ann Boud (Thomas), Rebecca Schettler (Richard), Sarah Sheffield (Joseph), and Mary Kim Oswald (Kevan). Of all the titles he earned during his life, Dad and Grandpa Lou are his favorite. He quietly dedicated his life to his family and his God. He taught without preaching, led without compulsion, loved without condition, and lived without pretense. He was faithful without fanfare in his many responsibilities at church, at work, and in the community. Professionally he developed real estate. Personally, he developed people. His love for his God, his wife, and his posterity is pure and evident in everything he did and said. He will be greatly missed and deeply loved by his family and all those who had the privilege of knowing and learning from him through his 86 years on this earth.Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 21, 2013 at 11:00 am at the Foothill Stake Center, 1933 South 2100 East. A visitation will be held on Sunday evening from 6-8 pm at Larkin Sunset Lawn, 2350 East 1300 South, as well as from 9:45-10:45 am, prior to the services at the church. Interment to follow the services in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.