Mom slipped quietly from this earth on June 29, 2009 surrounded by her children at her daughter's home. She resided at 2623 East Mount Crest Drive (3820 South) in East Millcreek, Utah at the time of her death.
Born March 9, 1921 to John (Jack) B. Hanigan and Harriett Shields Hanigan in Salt Lake City.
She graduated from East High School and received her degree in elementary education from the University of Utah.
Mom taught school for one year and then quit to become a secretary because the pay was better and the job wasn't as hard to do. This decision led her to Salt Lake County Hospital where she first met her future husband. Shortly after they met, mom moved to Washington DC and dad entered the U.S. Navy. When dad was in Virginia on medical leave, they renewed their romance.
Jacquetta Helen Hanigan married Charles Donald West on September 20, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple. Their relationship is a shining example of true love and eternal friendship.
A few years before he died, dad wrote "I never knew about love until I met Helen. From her I learned about compassion and caring for other people. She practices the first principle of the gospel, namely love, to the most perfect degree I have ever seen.
She helped me change the direction of my life. She helped me realize the most important thing in life was love and family." The most important things in mom's life were in this order; being a good wife, being a good mother, and being a good friend.
She had profound empathy and changed the lives of many people for the better. Her life's work has been to help others see the good in their hearts. Mom's beloved husband Don died in October of 1998, and she longed to be reunited with him. In the trying years that followed, she was welcomed with open arms by her loving children and their spouses.
Her investment in them now returned full circle as she received love and service from them. She was especially blessed by a loving daughter, who with her selfless husband and family cared for her in their home. Mom, who had spent so much time sacrificing for her family, learned the blessed condition of the one who receives.
Her legacy of charity is left to her four children and their spouses; Greg (Irene), Steve (Linda), Rick (Claudia), Janet (Paul) Newman, her 13 grandchildren, and her eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:00 noon in the East Millcreek Ninth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane (2600 East). A viewing will be held on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the Church.
Interment: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 6/30/2009-7/1/2009
Obituary posted by Ryan Curtis July 6, 2009
Born March 9, 1921 to John (Jack) B. Hanigan and Harriett Shields Hanigan in Salt Lake City.
She graduated from East High School and received her degree in elementary education from the University of Utah.
Mom taught school for one year and then quit to become a secretary because the pay was better and the job wasn't as hard to do. This decision led her to Salt Lake County Hospital where she first met her future husband. Shortly after they met, mom moved to Washington DC and dad entered the U.S. Navy. When dad was in Virginia on medical leave, they renewed their romance.
Jacquetta Helen Hanigan married Charles Donald West on September 20, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple. Their relationship is a shining example of true love and eternal friendship.
A few years before he died, dad wrote "I never knew about love until I met Helen. From her I learned about compassion and caring for other people. She practices the first principle of the gospel, namely love, to the most perfect degree I have ever seen.
She helped me change the direction of my life. She helped me realize the most important thing in life was love and family." The most important things in mom's life were in this order; being a good wife, being a good mother, and being a good friend.
She had profound empathy and changed the lives of many people for the better. Her life's work has been to help others see the good in their hearts. Mom's beloved husband Don died in October of 1998, and she longed to be reunited with him. In the trying years that followed, she was welcomed with open arms by her loving children and their spouses.
Her investment in them now returned full circle as she received love and service from them. She was especially blessed by a loving daughter, who with her selfless husband and family cared for her in their home. Mom, who had spent so much time sacrificing for her family, learned the blessed condition of the one who receives.
Her legacy of charity is left to her four children and their spouses; Greg (Irene), Steve (Linda), Rick (Claudia), Janet (Paul) Newman, her 13 grandchildren, and her eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:00 noon in the East Millcreek Ninth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane (2600 East). A viewing will be held on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the Church.
Interment: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 6/30/2009-7/1/2009
Obituary posted by Ryan Curtis July 6, 2009
Mom slipped quietly from this earth on June 29, 2009 surrounded by her children at her daughter's home. She resided at 2623 East Mount Crest Drive (3820 South) in East Millcreek, Utah at the time of her death.
Born March 9, 1921 to John (Jack) B. Hanigan and Harriett Shields Hanigan in Salt Lake City.
She graduated from East High School and received her degree in elementary education from the University of Utah.
Mom taught school for one year and then quit to become a secretary because the pay was better and the job wasn't as hard to do. This decision led her to Salt Lake County Hospital where she first met her future husband. Shortly after they met, mom moved to Washington DC and dad entered the U.S. Navy. When dad was in Virginia on medical leave, they renewed their romance.
Jacquetta Helen Hanigan married Charles Donald West on September 20, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple. Their relationship is a shining example of true love and eternal friendship.
A few years before he died, dad wrote "I never knew about love until I met Helen. From her I learned about compassion and caring for other people. She practices the first principle of the gospel, namely love, to the most perfect degree I have ever seen.
She helped me change the direction of my life. She helped me realize the most important thing in life was love and family." The most important things in mom's life were in this order; being a good wife, being a good mother, and being a good friend.
She had profound empathy and changed the lives of many people for the better. Her life's work has been to help others see the good in their hearts. Mom's beloved husband Don died in October of 1998, and she longed to be reunited with him. In the trying years that followed, she was welcomed with open arms by her loving children and their spouses.
Her investment in them now returned full circle as she received love and service from them. She was especially blessed by a loving daughter, who with her selfless husband and family cared for her in their home. Mom, who had spent so much time sacrificing for her family, learned the blessed condition of the one who receives.
Her legacy of charity is left to her four children and their spouses; Greg (Irene), Steve (Linda), Rick (Claudia), Janet (Paul) Newman, her 13 grandchildren, and her eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:00 noon in the East Millcreek Ninth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane (2600 East). A viewing will be held on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the Church.
Interment: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 6/30/2009-7/1/2009
Obituary posted by Ryan Curtis July 6, 2009
Born March 9, 1921 to John (Jack) B. Hanigan and Harriett Shields Hanigan in Salt Lake City.
She graduated from East High School and received her degree in elementary education from the University of Utah.
Mom taught school for one year and then quit to become a secretary because the pay was better and the job wasn't as hard to do. This decision led her to Salt Lake County Hospital where she first met her future husband. Shortly after they met, mom moved to Washington DC and dad entered the U.S. Navy. When dad was in Virginia on medical leave, they renewed their romance.
Jacquetta Helen Hanigan married Charles Donald West on September 20, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple. Their relationship is a shining example of true love and eternal friendship.
A few years before he died, dad wrote "I never knew about love until I met Helen. From her I learned about compassion and caring for other people. She practices the first principle of the gospel, namely love, to the most perfect degree I have ever seen.
She helped me change the direction of my life. She helped me realize the most important thing in life was love and family." The most important things in mom's life were in this order; being a good wife, being a good mother, and being a good friend.
She had profound empathy and changed the lives of many people for the better. Her life's work has been to help others see the good in their hearts. Mom's beloved husband Don died in October of 1998, and she longed to be reunited with him. In the trying years that followed, she was welcomed with open arms by her loving children and their spouses.
Her investment in them now returned full circle as she received love and service from them. She was especially blessed by a loving daughter, who with her selfless husband and family cared for her in their home. Mom, who had spent so much time sacrificing for her family, learned the blessed condition of the one who receives.
Her legacy of charity is left to her four children and their spouses; Greg (Irene), Steve (Linda), Rick (Claudia), Janet (Paul) Newman, her 13 grandchildren, and her eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:00 noon in the East Millcreek Ninth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane (2600 East). A viewing will be held on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the Church.
Interment: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 6/30/2009-7/1/2009
Obituary posted by Ryan Curtis July 6, 2009
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