Keith Roger BeanSeptember 15, 2013 ~ December 9, 1925Keith Roger Bean, known by friends as Roger, passed away peacefully at his home in Lindon, Utah, September 15, 2013, from complications of pulmonary fibrosis. He was born December 9, 1925, at Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Joseph Marquis Bean and Permilla Rogers Bean. His father was a wholesale grocery salesman who later started his own food brokerage firm. He and his four siblings were fairly close in age; consequently they had many common interests and enjoyed each other's association.He attended Uintah elementary school, Irving junior high school, and graduated from East High School in 1943. In the fall of 1943 he started college at the University of Utah, but in January 1944 enlisted as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps, and stayed in that training until the war's end. He returned to the U. in 1946, but left for an LDS mission in the Southern States in November 1946. While on his mission he served as a member of the Centennial Quartet, and they sang throughout many cities of the south. They were featured in Sunday evening services and appeared before schools, churches, clubs and other civic and social groups as a proselyting effort, as well as singing over several of the local radio stations. Returning from his mission in 1948, he then continued at the U., and received a bachelor of science degree in political science in 1951. He received a Juris Doctor degree with honors at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1954. Shortly thereafter he was married to Eva Collard, with whom he had become acquainted in the Washington Ward, and whose name he had shortened to"Eve" early in their courtship. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple on July 8, 1954. They returned to Washington to make their first home there, privileged to both be members of MIA stake boards with responsibilities that allowed them to travel throughout the then vast Washington Stake and associate with many fine people in government and educational pursuits.Late in the year 1955 they returned to Utah, where Roger worked as an assistant Utah Attorney General while beginning his private practice of law in Layton, Utah. He worked then as a solo practitioner, and later added his brother, Dave, and other lawyers to the firm. After practicing law for 24 years, he was appointed in 1980 to the Utah bench and served 17 years as a circuit and district judge. He retired December 31, 1997. Roger counted it a great blessing to grow up in an active L.D.S. home and enjoy activities in the Church throughout his life. He was called as bishop of the Layton Fifth Ward in March 1959, and he served as project bishop as he supervised the construction of the Layton Stake Center dedicated two years later. Additional church callings included service as a member of the High Council of the Layton East Stake, and president of the Layton Utah East Stake. Two years into that calling the Layton Utah Holmes Creek Stake was created, and he became the first president of that stake, serving for six additional years. He subsequently served again as bishop, this time of the Layton 32nd Ward. He was called in March of 1998 as Patriarch of the Layton Utah East Stake where he served for eight years, then continued in that calling in the Lindon Central Stake in Lindon, Utah, for an additional three years. He was presently serving as a home teacher.The great out-of-doors was one of the passions of Roger's life. His first trip to Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone was made in 1957, and he was to repeat that trip innumerable times in company with his children, his brothers and their families in subsequent years. He also enjoyed trips to Fish Lake with his brothers, with memorable overnights at Jeff's and Shauna's cabin. He taught his children to play tennis and to ski, and to love and respect Heavenly Father's creations. As an avid runner and racquetball player, he took special care to keep his mortal body in great shape.Rog and Eve cherished the memories of their beloved Study Group friends with whom they spent many delightful times through fifty years of close togetherness. After Rog's retirement, he and Eve were blessed to add wonderful remembrances as they were privileged to broaden their horizons in their travels in the U.S. and several foreign countries.Roger had a great sense of humor. Anyone who knew him well was privy to his remarkable sense of timing as he pulled from his memory bank the countless jokes he had stored there.He is survived by his loving wife, Eve, and their six children, Judy (Keith) Fraser, Rebecca Bean Owen, Matt (Norene), Scott (Lisa), Christie (Glenn) Jensen, and Robbi (Paul) Killpack, as well as 21 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He is also survived by three brothers, Richard, Merrill (Joan) and David (Lois). He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Dorothy.A viewing will be held Friday, September 20, from 6-8 p.m. at Olpin Family Mortuary, 494 South 300 East, Pleasant Grove, Utah, with additional viewing prior to the funeral on Saturday, September 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Lindon Central Stake Center, 56 East 600 North, Lindon, Utah, where funeral services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Lindon City Cemetery. Please feel free to share your own memories of Roger at www.olpinmortuary.com.
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