Fern Flake Fairbourn, 99
DIED: in the early morning hours of 30 December 2019
PLACE: her South Jordan, Utah home

BORN: 7 September 1920
PLACE: Snowflake, Arizona

PARENTS: James Madison and Martha Amelia (Smith) Flake
SIBLINGS: youngest of their 24 children

MARRIED: Merle Leslie Fairbourn
DATE: 16 March 1943
PLACE: Mesa Arizona Temple
RESIDED: Utah, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming; then back to Utah before Merle’s passing in June 2002

VOLUNTEER SERVICE:
Fern loved to serve. In her youth, she served as a missionary in the Texas Louisiana States Mission, where she met Merle. Throughout her life, Fern served in many teaching and leadership callings with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She particularly loved serving in the Jordan River Temple. Together, she and Merle served as missionaries in Kentucky Louisville and California San Bernardino, which helped inspire forty-eight members of Fern's posterity to serve missions, too.

SURVIVED by ...
- Children, daughter-in-law, Ann Flake, of Elberta, Utah; Karmen (John) Murphy, of Mendocino, California; LaDawn (Christopher) Tice, of Pocatello, Idaho; Lynn (Brett) Blethen, of Boise, Idaho; son-in-law, David Isaksen and Sherril (Richard) Bryan, all of Taylorsville, Utah; Loraine (Jeffrey) Urry, of Cheyenne, Wyoming; son-in-law, James Leslie, of Provo, Utah; and son-in-law, John Edward, of McCammon, Idaho
- Grandchildren (48); Great-Grandchildren (108); Great-Great-Grandchildren (5)

PREDECEASED by ...
- Husband, Merle Fairbourn
- Children, William Flake and Rhonda Flake Isaksen
- Grandsons, Chad Isaksen, Jordan Fairbourn and Seth Isaksen
- Parents
- Siblings (23)

SERVICES:
- 1st Viewing -
TIME: 6 to 8 P.M.
DATE: Friday, 3 January 2020

- 2nd Viewing -
TIME: 9:30 to 10:30 A.M.

- Funeral -
TIME: 11 A.M.

DATE: Saturday, 4 January 2020
LOCATION: 1570 West 11400 South, South Jordan

- Interment -
Crescent Cemetery, 11105 State Street, Sandy, Utah