She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 3, 1926. She married Alvin S. Anderson on January 15, 1947 in the Salt Lake Temple. They enjoyed over sixty-three years of a wonderful life filled with many "Precious Memories!"
She bid farewell to her husband after nine months of marriage and supported him financially while he served a two 1/2 year mission in Finland for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Donna was a devout member of the LDS faith and served in many callings. The highlight of her callings was serving with her husband. They were together as tour guide missionaries on Temple Square for thirteen years.
They also served for fifteen 1/2 years as ordinance workers in the Salt Lake Temple when she resigned for health reasons. They served a couple's mission to Finland from 1990 to 1991. They were first-hand eyewitnesses of the gospel taken into Russia.
Donna typed up the church reports of the first Russian converts when the Russian Mission was divided from the Finnish Mission.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Nephi and Erma Euland Yates, and her son Kevin. She is survived by her husband, Diane (widow of Kevin), Jody Prescott (Clark), Lisa Flowers (Dean), Clay (Melony), Tyler (Suzanne), Creed (Cindy), twenty-one grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, her sisters, Elinore Anderson, Merlyn Kjar, and brother, Paul Yates.
Donna and Al's devotion to each other throughout their lives was a love story that was an example to all. Donna always said that her greatest accomplishment was rearing six wonderful children, who she dearly loved along with their families.
Funeral Services will be held in the Olympus Seventh Ward Chapel, 2675 East 4430 South, on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. There will be a viewing held one hour before the funeral services at the Church. The night before, a viewing will take place between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek, Utah.
Interment will be in Wasatch Lawn.
Published in the Deseret News from November 4 to November 5, 2010.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 3, 1926. She married Alvin S. Anderson on January 15, 1947 in the Salt Lake Temple. They enjoyed over sixty-three years of a wonderful life filled with many "Precious Memories!"
She bid farewell to her husband after nine months of marriage and supported him financially while he served a two 1/2 year mission in Finland for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Donna was a devout member of the LDS faith and served in many callings. The highlight of her callings was serving with her husband. They were together as tour guide missionaries on Temple Square for thirteen years.
They also served for fifteen 1/2 years as ordinance workers in the Salt Lake Temple when she resigned for health reasons. They served a couple's mission to Finland from 1990 to 1991. They were first-hand eyewitnesses of the gospel taken into Russia.
Donna typed up the church reports of the first Russian converts when the Russian Mission was divided from the Finnish Mission.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Nephi and Erma Euland Yates, and her son Kevin. She is survived by her husband, Diane (widow of Kevin), Jody Prescott (Clark), Lisa Flowers (Dean), Clay (Melony), Tyler (Suzanne), Creed (Cindy), twenty-one grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, her sisters, Elinore Anderson, Merlyn Kjar, and brother, Paul Yates.
Donna and Al's devotion to each other throughout their lives was a love story that was an example to all. Donna always said that her greatest accomplishment was rearing six wonderful children, who she dearly loved along with their families.
Funeral Services will be held in the Olympus Seventh Ward Chapel, 2675 East 4430 South, on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. There will be a viewing held one hour before the funeral services at the Church. The night before, a viewing will take place between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek, Utah.
Interment will be in Wasatch Lawn.
Published in the Deseret News from November 4 to November 5, 2010.
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