On November 13, 2009, Jetta Bunker Hepworth died at the age of ninety-six of causes incident to age.
She was born June 19, 1913 in Delta, Utah to William Edward and Emma Iverson Bunker.
She was the second youngest of eight children, four of whom died in infancy or childhood. She had a happy childhood in Delta with her sisters, Grace and Dorothy, and her brother Owen.
In 1929, as a high school senior, Jetta was recommended for a job at a local bank, just months before the difficulties of the Great Depression began.
As banks went into receivership, Jetta worked for the Utah state banking department in Payson. After a short time, Jetta moved to Richfield to continue her work in banking and mortgage insurance. Jetta looked back fondly on her time in Payson and Richfield, where she made the dearest friends of her life. Jetta found banking, then still a man's profession, to be a challenging and rewarding career.
She moved to Salt Lake City to work at Walker Bank, where she became the first female bank teller in the State of Utah, and where she made many friends.
In the summer of 1942, Jetta was introduced, by one of her Walker Bank friends, to James B. Hepworth. Their love was instant and enduring. Just weeks after meeting they were separated by Jim's induction into the army. They were married on September 17, 1943, and were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. World War II separated them again from 1944 to 1946.
After the war, Jim became a professor at the University of Utah, and Jetta devoted her life to him, their two daughters, her church, and her community. She served in the stake Primary presidency, as Relief Society president, as a member of both the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs, as a delegate to the Salt Lake Council of Women, and as President of the University of Utah Women's Club.
Together, Jim and Jetta shared their love of world travel but also spent many happy summers closer to home with family and friends at Fish Lake. Jetta was a life-long learner who valued education and the arts. She did beautiful handwork. She got her first computer at age seventy-nine so that she could do genealogical work and was still reading voraciously in the last weeks of her life.
In 1993, Jetta was preceded in death by Jim. She missed him more every day and looked forward to being with him again.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law Kathryn (Matt) Ramirez and Jill (Jeff) Christensen, by four grandchildren, James Ramirez, Brooke Ramirez, Nate Christensen, and Tom Christensen, by a dear cousin Pearl Nelson, by her brother-and sister-in-law Jack and Caryl Hepworth, and by many beloved nieces, nephews, and other extended family members.
She will be deeply missed but we know that she has had a joyous reunion with her loved ones, and are comforted by the promise she made to us: "I'll be there for you again."
Funeral Services for Jetta will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City , where family and friends may call on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Wednesday morning from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. prior to the services.
Interment: Bountiful Memorial Park Cemetery, 2020 South 200 West, Bountiful, UT.
Published in the Deseret News from November 15 to November 17, 2009.
She was born June 19, 1913 in Delta, Utah to William Edward and Emma Iverson Bunker.
She was the second youngest of eight children, four of whom died in infancy or childhood. She had a happy childhood in Delta with her sisters, Grace and Dorothy, and her brother Owen.
In 1929, as a high school senior, Jetta was recommended for a job at a local bank, just months before the difficulties of the Great Depression began.
As banks went into receivership, Jetta worked for the Utah state banking department in Payson. After a short time, Jetta moved to Richfield to continue her work in banking and mortgage insurance. Jetta looked back fondly on her time in Payson and Richfield, where she made the dearest friends of her life. Jetta found banking, then still a man's profession, to be a challenging and rewarding career.
She moved to Salt Lake City to work at Walker Bank, where she became the first female bank teller in the State of Utah, and where she made many friends.
In the summer of 1942, Jetta was introduced, by one of her Walker Bank friends, to James B. Hepworth. Their love was instant and enduring. Just weeks after meeting they were separated by Jim's induction into the army. They were married on September 17, 1943, and were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. World War II separated them again from 1944 to 1946.
After the war, Jim became a professor at the University of Utah, and Jetta devoted her life to him, their two daughters, her church, and her community. She served in the stake Primary presidency, as Relief Society president, as a member of both the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs, as a delegate to the Salt Lake Council of Women, and as President of the University of Utah Women's Club.
Together, Jim and Jetta shared their love of world travel but also spent many happy summers closer to home with family and friends at Fish Lake. Jetta was a life-long learner who valued education and the arts. She did beautiful handwork. She got her first computer at age seventy-nine so that she could do genealogical work and was still reading voraciously in the last weeks of her life.
In 1993, Jetta was preceded in death by Jim. She missed him more every day and looked forward to being with him again.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law Kathryn (Matt) Ramirez and Jill (Jeff) Christensen, by four grandchildren, James Ramirez, Brooke Ramirez, Nate Christensen, and Tom Christensen, by a dear cousin Pearl Nelson, by her brother-and sister-in-law Jack and Caryl Hepworth, and by many beloved nieces, nephews, and other extended family members.
She will be deeply missed but we know that she has had a joyous reunion with her loved ones, and are comforted by the promise she made to us: "I'll be there for you again."
Funeral Services for Jetta will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City , where family and friends may call on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Wednesday morning from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. prior to the services.
Interment: Bountiful Memorial Park Cemetery, 2020 South 200 West, Bountiful, UT.
Published in the Deseret News from November 15 to November 17, 2009.
On November 13, 2009, Jetta Bunker Hepworth died at the age of ninety-six of causes incident to age.
She was born June 19, 1913 in Delta, Utah to William Edward and Emma Iverson Bunker.
She was the second youngest of eight children, four of whom died in infancy or childhood. She had a happy childhood in Delta with her sisters, Grace and Dorothy, and her brother Owen.
In 1929, as a high school senior, Jetta was recommended for a job at a local bank, just months before the difficulties of the Great Depression began.
As banks went into receivership, Jetta worked for the Utah state banking department in Payson. After a short time, Jetta moved to Richfield to continue her work in banking and mortgage insurance. Jetta looked back fondly on her time in Payson and Richfield, where she made the dearest friends of her life. Jetta found banking, then still a man's profession, to be a challenging and rewarding career.
She moved to Salt Lake City to work at Walker Bank, where she became the first female bank teller in the State of Utah, and where she made many friends.
In the summer of 1942, Jetta was introduced, by one of her Walker Bank friends, to James B. Hepworth. Their love was instant and enduring. Just weeks after meeting they were separated by Jim's induction into the army. They were married on September 17, 1943, and were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. World War II separated them again from 1944 to 1946.
After the war, Jim became a professor at the University of Utah, and Jetta devoted her life to him, their two daughters, her church, and her community. She served in the stake Primary presidency, as Relief Society president, as a member of both the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs, as a delegate to the Salt Lake Council of Women, and as President of the University of Utah Women's Club.
Together, Jim and Jetta shared their love of world travel but also spent many happy summers closer to home with family and friends at Fish Lake. Jetta was a life-long learner who valued education and the arts. She did beautiful handwork. She got her first computer at age seventy-nine so that she could do genealogical work and was still reading voraciously in the last weeks of her life.
In 1993, Jetta was preceded in death by Jim. She missed him more every day and looked forward to being with him again.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law Kathryn (Matt) Ramirez and Jill (Jeff) Christensen, by four grandchildren, James Ramirez, Brooke Ramirez, Nate Christensen, and Tom Christensen, by a dear cousin Pearl Nelson, by her brother-and sister-in-law Jack and Caryl Hepworth, and by many beloved nieces, nephews, and other extended family members.
She will be deeply missed but we know that she has had a joyous reunion with her loved ones, and are comforted by the promise she made to us: "I'll be there for you again."
Funeral Services for Jetta will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City , where family and friends may call on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Wednesday morning from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. prior to the services.
Interment: Bountiful Memorial Park Cemetery, 2020 South 200 West, Bountiful, UT.
Published in the Deseret News from November 15 to November 17, 2009.
She was born June 19, 1913 in Delta, Utah to William Edward and Emma Iverson Bunker.
She was the second youngest of eight children, four of whom died in infancy or childhood. She had a happy childhood in Delta with her sisters, Grace and Dorothy, and her brother Owen.
In 1929, as a high school senior, Jetta was recommended for a job at a local bank, just months before the difficulties of the Great Depression began.
As banks went into receivership, Jetta worked for the Utah state banking department in Payson. After a short time, Jetta moved to Richfield to continue her work in banking and mortgage insurance. Jetta looked back fondly on her time in Payson and Richfield, where she made the dearest friends of her life. Jetta found banking, then still a man's profession, to be a challenging and rewarding career.
She moved to Salt Lake City to work at Walker Bank, where she became the first female bank teller in the State of Utah, and where she made many friends.
In the summer of 1942, Jetta was introduced, by one of her Walker Bank friends, to James B. Hepworth. Their love was instant and enduring. Just weeks after meeting they were separated by Jim's induction into the army. They were married on September 17, 1943, and were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. World War II separated them again from 1944 to 1946.
After the war, Jim became a professor at the University of Utah, and Jetta devoted her life to him, their two daughters, her church, and her community. She served in the stake Primary presidency, as Relief Society president, as a member of both the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs, as a delegate to the Salt Lake Council of Women, and as President of the University of Utah Women's Club.
Together, Jim and Jetta shared their love of world travel but also spent many happy summers closer to home with family and friends at Fish Lake. Jetta was a life-long learner who valued education and the arts. She did beautiful handwork. She got her first computer at age seventy-nine so that she could do genealogical work and was still reading voraciously in the last weeks of her life.
In 1993, Jetta was preceded in death by Jim. She missed him more every day and looked forward to being with him again.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law Kathryn (Matt) Ramirez and Jill (Jeff) Christensen, by four grandchildren, James Ramirez, Brooke Ramirez, Nate Christensen, and Tom Christensen, by a dear cousin Pearl Nelson, by her brother-and sister-in-law Jack and Caryl Hepworth, and by many beloved nieces, nephews, and other extended family members.
She will be deeply missed but we know that she has had a joyous reunion with her loved ones, and are comforted by the promise she made to us: "I'll be there for you again."
Funeral Services for Jetta will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City , where family and friends may call on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Wednesday morning from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. prior to the services.
Interment: Bountiful Memorial Park Cemetery, 2020 South 200 West, Bountiful, UT.
Published in the Deseret News from November 15 to November 17, 2009.
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