Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway, 92, passed away peacefully on September 29, 2017.
LaRue was born March 15, 1925 to Florence Buehler and Herbert Brown Maw. She is a product of loving parents and siblings, East High, and the U. of U., where along the way she forged friendships that spanned all of her life.
She married Benson L. "Ben" Hathaway in 1948; they were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1949 and then embarked on a sixty-nine year adventure of teaching and loving people and life in the Salt Lake Valley; Superior, Wyoming; Arlington Heights, Illinois; Vancouver, Washington; and various other stops in her life's journey.
LaRue loved and taught music. She instilled that love in her family and in all she served. She taught music at Superior Elementary, Evergreen JHS and Olympus JHS, and other schools in the Salt Lake Valley and Illinois.
She molded innumerable groups of rag-tag youths, marginally talented adults, and various iterations of her children and Ben into veritable choirs of angels to share her beloved music at church events, music festivals, shopping centers, and rest homes in whatever community she lived. Christmases in LaRue's world were like pages from a storybook, and her "Road Shows" were legendary.
And there was never an empty seat at LaRue's table. Her eye was toward the lonely, those outside the gate, and those who hurt. Whether it was a student, a neighbor, or just someone in need of a meal, LaRue saw to it that everyone had something to eat, something to do, somewhere to be, …a friend.
Along LaRue's way, spirits were lifted, lives saved, and the love of God and man enhanced. LaRue ever sought to contribute to that which was good in the world with never a thought for herself.
Unfortunately, a cerebral aneurysm tripped up LaRue in her sixtieth year. At first undaunted, LaRue's health finally slowed her capacity to serve. Having given so much, LaRue begrudgingly succumbed to the reality of becoming a recipient of another's service. But even in that role she enriched her family's and friends' capacity to love, and made a saint out of her beloved Ben.
LaRue loved her Father in Heaven, her Savior and her neighbors, and served them faithfully through her lifetime of worship and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LaRue leaves behind her husband of nearly sixty-nine years; children, Ann (Rich) Gillespie, Amy Christensen, Jane (Mike) Stout, Ben (Laurie), and Russell; sister, Jean Nibley; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Shirley; brothers, Ralph and Warren Maw; a great-granddaughter, Samantha; and a heavenly choir of extended family and friends.
LaRue's family thanks — with the utmost love and deepest appreciation — the caregivers at Brighton Hospice and the Abbington Holladay for their tender care of LaRue and Ben.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Olympus Stake Center (the pagoda church), 2675 East 4430 South, with a viewing the evening before from 6:00 to 8:00 and on the day of the funeral from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from October 1 to October 2, 2017.
LaRue was born March 15, 1925 to Florence Buehler and Herbert Brown Maw. She is a product of loving parents and siblings, East High, and the U. of U., where along the way she forged friendships that spanned all of her life.
She married Benson L. "Ben" Hathaway in 1948; they were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1949 and then embarked on a sixty-nine year adventure of teaching and loving people and life in the Salt Lake Valley; Superior, Wyoming; Arlington Heights, Illinois; Vancouver, Washington; and various other stops in her life's journey.
LaRue loved and taught music. She instilled that love in her family and in all she served. She taught music at Superior Elementary, Evergreen JHS and Olympus JHS, and other schools in the Salt Lake Valley and Illinois.
She molded innumerable groups of rag-tag youths, marginally talented adults, and various iterations of her children and Ben into veritable choirs of angels to share her beloved music at church events, music festivals, shopping centers, and rest homes in whatever community she lived. Christmases in LaRue's world were like pages from a storybook, and her "Road Shows" were legendary.
And there was never an empty seat at LaRue's table. Her eye was toward the lonely, those outside the gate, and those who hurt. Whether it was a student, a neighbor, or just someone in need of a meal, LaRue saw to it that everyone had something to eat, something to do, somewhere to be, …a friend.
Along LaRue's way, spirits were lifted, lives saved, and the love of God and man enhanced. LaRue ever sought to contribute to that which was good in the world with never a thought for herself.
Unfortunately, a cerebral aneurysm tripped up LaRue in her sixtieth year. At first undaunted, LaRue's health finally slowed her capacity to serve. Having given so much, LaRue begrudgingly succumbed to the reality of becoming a recipient of another's service. But even in that role she enriched her family's and friends' capacity to love, and made a saint out of her beloved Ben.
LaRue loved her Father in Heaven, her Savior and her neighbors, and served them faithfully through her lifetime of worship and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LaRue leaves behind her husband of nearly sixty-nine years; children, Ann (Rich) Gillespie, Amy Christensen, Jane (Mike) Stout, Ben (Laurie), and Russell; sister, Jean Nibley; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Shirley; brothers, Ralph and Warren Maw; a great-granddaughter, Samantha; and a heavenly choir of extended family and friends.
LaRue's family thanks — with the utmost love and deepest appreciation — the caregivers at Brighton Hospice and the Abbington Holladay for their tender care of LaRue and Ben.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Olympus Stake Center (the pagoda church), 2675 East 4430 South, with a viewing the evening before from 6:00 to 8:00 and on the day of the funeral from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from October 1 to October 2, 2017.
Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway, 92, passed away peacefully on September 29, 2017.
LaRue was born March 15, 1925 to Florence Buehler and Herbert Brown Maw. She is a product of loving parents and siblings, East High, and the U. of U., where along the way she forged friendships that spanned all of her life.
She married Benson L. "Ben" Hathaway in 1948; they were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1949 and then embarked on a sixty-nine year adventure of teaching and loving people and life in the Salt Lake Valley; Superior, Wyoming; Arlington Heights, Illinois; Vancouver, Washington; and various other stops in her life's journey.
LaRue loved and taught music. She instilled that love in her family and in all she served. She taught music at Superior Elementary, Evergreen JHS and Olympus JHS, and other schools in the Salt Lake Valley and Illinois.
She molded innumerable groups of rag-tag youths, marginally talented adults, and various iterations of her children and Ben into veritable choirs of angels to share her beloved music at church events, music festivals, shopping centers, and rest homes in whatever community she lived. Christmases in LaRue's world were like pages from a storybook, and her "Road Shows" were legendary.
And there was never an empty seat at LaRue's table. Her eye was toward the lonely, those outside the gate, and those who hurt. Whether it was a student, a neighbor, or just someone in need of a meal, LaRue saw to it that everyone had something to eat, something to do, somewhere to be, …a friend.
Along LaRue's way, spirits were lifted, lives saved, and the love of God and man enhanced. LaRue ever sought to contribute to that which was good in the world with never a thought for herself.
Unfortunately, a cerebral aneurysm tripped up LaRue in her sixtieth year. At first undaunted, LaRue's health finally slowed her capacity to serve. Having given so much, LaRue begrudgingly succumbed to the reality of becoming a recipient of another's service. But even in that role she enriched her family's and friends' capacity to love, and made a saint out of her beloved Ben.
LaRue loved her Father in Heaven, her Savior and her neighbors, and served them faithfully through her lifetime of worship and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LaRue leaves behind her husband of nearly sixty-nine years; children, Ann (Rich) Gillespie, Amy Christensen, Jane (Mike) Stout, Ben (Laurie), and Russell; sister, Jean Nibley; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Shirley; brothers, Ralph and Warren Maw; a great-granddaughter, Samantha; and a heavenly choir of extended family and friends.
LaRue's family thanks — with the utmost love and deepest appreciation — the caregivers at Brighton Hospice and the Abbington Holladay for their tender care of LaRue and Ben.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Olympus Stake Center (the pagoda church), 2675 East 4430 South, with a viewing the evening before from 6:00 to 8:00 and on the day of the funeral from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from October 1 to October 2, 2017.
LaRue was born March 15, 1925 to Florence Buehler and Herbert Brown Maw. She is a product of loving parents and siblings, East High, and the U. of U., where along the way she forged friendships that spanned all of her life.
She married Benson L. "Ben" Hathaway in 1948; they were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1949 and then embarked on a sixty-nine year adventure of teaching and loving people and life in the Salt Lake Valley; Superior, Wyoming; Arlington Heights, Illinois; Vancouver, Washington; and various other stops in her life's journey.
LaRue loved and taught music. She instilled that love in her family and in all she served. She taught music at Superior Elementary, Evergreen JHS and Olympus JHS, and other schools in the Salt Lake Valley and Illinois.
She molded innumerable groups of rag-tag youths, marginally talented adults, and various iterations of her children and Ben into veritable choirs of angels to share her beloved music at church events, music festivals, shopping centers, and rest homes in whatever community she lived. Christmases in LaRue's world were like pages from a storybook, and her "Road Shows" were legendary.
And there was never an empty seat at LaRue's table. Her eye was toward the lonely, those outside the gate, and those who hurt. Whether it was a student, a neighbor, or just someone in need of a meal, LaRue saw to it that everyone had something to eat, something to do, somewhere to be, …a friend.
Along LaRue's way, spirits were lifted, lives saved, and the love of God and man enhanced. LaRue ever sought to contribute to that which was good in the world with never a thought for herself.
Unfortunately, a cerebral aneurysm tripped up LaRue in her sixtieth year. At first undaunted, LaRue's health finally slowed her capacity to serve. Having given so much, LaRue begrudgingly succumbed to the reality of becoming a recipient of another's service. But even in that role she enriched her family's and friends' capacity to love, and made a saint out of her beloved Ben.
LaRue loved her Father in Heaven, her Savior and her neighbors, and served them faithfully through her lifetime of worship and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LaRue leaves behind her husband of nearly sixty-nine years; children, Ann (Rich) Gillespie, Amy Christensen, Jane (Mike) Stout, Ben (Laurie), and Russell; sister, Jean Nibley; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Shirley; brothers, Ralph and Warren Maw; a great-granddaughter, Samantha; and a heavenly choir of extended family and friends.
LaRue's family thanks — with the utmost love and deepest appreciation — the caregivers at Brighton Hospice and the Abbington Holladay for their tender care of LaRue and Ben.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Olympus Stake Center (the pagoda church), 2675 East 4430 South, with a viewing the evening before from 6:00 to 8:00 and on the day of the funeral from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from October 1 to October 2, 2017.
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