Seth Leon Alder died Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at the age of ninety-six of causes incident to his age.
He was born November 20, 1914 to Leon Conrad and Vesta Campbell Alder in Providence, Utah. He was the second of five sons and one daughter.
Seth spent the first ten years of his life going back and forth between Pocatello Valley, Idaho and Providence with the majority of time spent in Pocatello Valley helping on the family dry farm.
While living in Pocatello Valley, he attended a one-room school through the fourth grade, riding Whitey the family horse to and from school. After the fourth grade, his family moved to Providence and returned to Pocatello Valley, mostly for the summer farming season.
Seth graduated from South Cache High School and later attended and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College (USU) with a degree in Accounting. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Brazil from 1937 through 1940. He married Elaine Poulsen on December 31, 1941 in the Logan LDS Temple.
He worked for a short period of time in Seattle before he joined the Coast Guard during World WarII. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Providence, where he and his brothers operated a sheep and cattle ranch in Logan and Malad, Idaho, as well as the dry farm in Pocatello Valley. He spent his entire life faming and ranching and was very successful at it.
Seth was a lifelong dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He served in many church callings he served as a finance clerk for eleven years, five years as a High Councilor, as a counselor in two Bishoprics and Bishop of the Providence Second Ward, and during his seventeen years as a Stake Patriarch he gave over 700 blessings. He was also committed to the community.
He served as President of Blacksmith Fork Irrigation Company for wtenty-five years, board member of the Trenton Co-op for twenty-five years, and Secretary of the Logan Canyon Cattle Association and for one term served as Secretary of the Cache County Farm Bureau.
Seth is survived by one son Dr. Richard L. Alder (Kathleen Willardson) and eight grandchildren, Elizabeth Ebeling (Kerby), Sarah Larsen (Chris), Juliet Cook (Larry), Adrien Jenkins (Matt), Rachel Murray (Nate), Alex Seth Alder, Michelle Lowham (Craig), Dayne Teigeler (Emerald Green), and nineteen great-grandchildren.
A special thanks to Jacob, Sheree, and Conrad (his buddy) given for the loving care they administered to Seth during the years they shared his home with him. Their loving care allowed him to stay in his home and on the farm he loved so much.
Seth was preceded in death by his wife Elaine, his siblings Claud Joseph Alder, Lynn Campbell Alder, Roma Alder Nielsen, and a grandson Jonathan Reed Alder.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the Providence LDS Chapel at 300 South Main Street, Providence, UT. A viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at Allen Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah. Friends may also attend the viewing on Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Providence LDS Chapel from 10:00 to 11:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Internment will be in the Providence City Cemetery following the services.
Published in thr Deseret News from May 20 to May 21, 2011.
He was born November 20, 1914 to Leon Conrad and Vesta Campbell Alder in Providence, Utah. He was the second of five sons and one daughter.
Seth spent the first ten years of his life going back and forth between Pocatello Valley, Idaho and Providence with the majority of time spent in Pocatello Valley helping on the family dry farm.
While living in Pocatello Valley, he attended a one-room school through the fourth grade, riding Whitey the family horse to and from school. After the fourth grade, his family moved to Providence and returned to Pocatello Valley, mostly for the summer farming season.
Seth graduated from South Cache High School and later attended and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College (USU) with a degree in Accounting. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Brazil from 1937 through 1940. He married Elaine Poulsen on December 31, 1941 in the Logan LDS Temple.
He worked for a short period of time in Seattle before he joined the Coast Guard during World WarII. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Providence, where he and his brothers operated a sheep and cattle ranch in Logan and Malad, Idaho, as well as the dry farm in Pocatello Valley. He spent his entire life faming and ranching and was very successful at it.
Seth was a lifelong dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He served in many church callings he served as a finance clerk for eleven years, five years as a High Councilor, as a counselor in two Bishoprics and Bishop of the Providence Second Ward, and during his seventeen years as a Stake Patriarch he gave over 700 blessings. He was also committed to the community.
He served as President of Blacksmith Fork Irrigation Company for wtenty-five years, board member of the Trenton Co-op for twenty-five years, and Secretary of the Logan Canyon Cattle Association and for one term served as Secretary of the Cache County Farm Bureau.
Seth is survived by one son Dr. Richard L. Alder (Kathleen Willardson) and eight grandchildren, Elizabeth Ebeling (Kerby), Sarah Larsen (Chris), Juliet Cook (Larry), Adrien Jenkins (Matt), Rachel Murray (Nate), Alex Seth Alder, Michelle Lowham (Craig), Dayne Teigeler (Emerald Green), and nineteen great-grandchildren.
A special thanks to Jacob, Sheree, and Conrad (his buddy) given for the loving care they administered to Seth during the years they shared his home with him. Their loving care allowed him to stay in his home and on the farm he loved so much.
Seth was preceded in death by his wife Elaine, his siblings Claud Joseph Alder, Lynn Campbell Alder, Roma Alder Nielsen, and a grandson Jonathan Reed Alder.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the Providence LDS Chapel at 300 South Main Street, Providence, UT. A viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at Allen Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah. Friends may also attend the viewing on Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Providence LDS Chapel from 10:00 to 11:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Internment will be in the Providence City Cemetery following the services.
Published in thr Deseret News from May 20 to May 21, 2011.
Seth Leon Alder died Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at the age of ninety-six of causes incident to his age.
He was born November 20, 1914 to Leon Conrad and Vesta Campbell Alder in Providence, Utah. He was the second of five sons and one daughter.
Seth spent the first ten years of his life going back and forth between Pocatello Valley, Idaho and Providence with the majority of time spent in Pocatello Valley helping on the family dry farm.
While living in Pocatello Valley, he attended a one-room school through the fourth grade, riding Whitey the family horse to and from school. After the fourth grade, his family moved to Providence and returned to Pocatello Valley, mostly for the summer farming season.
Seth graduated from South Cache High School and later attended and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College (USU) with a degree in Accounting. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Brazil from 1937 through 1940. He married Elaine Poulsen on December 31, 1941 in the Logan LDS Temple.
He worked for a short period of time in Seattle before he joined the Coast Guard during World WarII. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Providence, where he and his brothers operated a sheep and cattle ranch in Logan and Malad, Idaho, as well as the dry farm in Pocatello Valley. He spent his entire life faming and ranching and was very successful at it.
Seth was a lifelong dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He served in many church callings he served as a finance clerk for eleven years, five years as a High Councilor, as a counselor in two Bishoprics and Bishop of the Providence Second Ward, and during his seventeen years as a Stake Patriarch he gave over 700 blessings. He was also committed to the community.
He served as President of Blacksmith Fork Irrigation Company for wtenty-five years, board member of the Trenton Co-op for twenty-five years, and Secretary of the Logan Canyon Cattle Association and for one term served as Secretary of the Cache County Farm Bureau.
Seth is survived by one son Dr. Richard L. Alder (Kathleen Willardson) and eight grandchildren, Elizabeth Ebeling (Kerby), Sarah Larsen (Chris), Juliet Cook (Larry), Adrien Jenkins (Matt), Rachel Murray (Nate), Alex Seth Alder, Michelle Lowham (Craig), Dayne Teigeler (Emerald Green), and nineteen great-grandchildren.
A special thanks to Jacob, Sheree, and Conrad (his buddy) given for the loving care they administered to Seth during the years they shared his home with him. Their loving care allowed him to stay in his home and on the farm he loved so much.
Seth was preceded in death by his wife Elaine, his siblings Claud Joseph Alder, Lynn Campbell Alder, Roma Alder Nielsen, and a grandson Jonathan Reed Alder.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the Providence LDS Chapel at 300 South Main Street, Providence, UT. A viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at Allen Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah. Friends may also attend the viewing on Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Providence LDS Chapel from 10:00 to 11:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Internment will be in the Providence City Cemetery following the services.
Published in thr Deseret News from May 20 to May 21, 2011.
He was born November 20, 1914 to Leon Conrad and Vesta Campbell Alder in Providence, Utah. He was the second of five sons and one daughter.
Seth spent the first ten years of his life going back and forth between Pocatello Valley, Idaho and Providence with the majority of time spent in Pocatello Valley helping on the family dry farm.
While living in Pocatello Valley, he attended a one-room school through the fourth grade, riding Whitey the family horse to and from school. After the fourth grade, his family moved to Providence and returned to Pocatello Valley, mostly for the summer farming season.
Seth graduated from South Cache High School and later attended and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College (USU) with a degree in Accounting. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Brazil from 1937 through 1940. He married Elaine Poulsen on December 31, 1941 in the Logan LDS Temple.
He worked for a short period of time in Seattle before he joined the Coast Guard during World WarII. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Providence, where he and his brothers operated a sheep and cattle ranch in Logan and Malad, Idaho, as well as the dry farm in Pocatello Valley. He spent his entire life faming and ranching and was very successful at it.
Seth was a lifelong dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He served in many church callings he served as a finance clerk for eleven years, five years as a High Councilor, as a counselor in two Bishoprics and Bishop of the Providence Second Ward, and during his seventeen years as a Stake Patriarch he gave over 700 blessings. He was also committed to the community.
He served as President of Blacksmith Fork Irrigation Company for wtenty-five years, board member of the Trenton Co-op for twenty-five years, and Secretary of the Logan Canyon Cattle Association and for one term served as Secretary of the Cache County Farm Bureau.
Seth is survived by one son Dr. Richard L. Alder (Kathleen Willardson) and eight grandchildren, Elizabeth Ebeling (Kerby), Sarah Larsen (Chris), Juliet Cook (Larry), Adrien Jenkins (Matt), Rachel Murray (Nate), Alex Seth Alder, Michelle Lowham (Craig), Dayne Teigeler (Emerald Green), and nineteen great-grandchildren.
A special thanks to Jacob, Sheree, and Conrad (his buddy) given for the loving care they administered to Seth during the years they shared his home with him. Their loving care allowed him to stay in his home and on the farm he loved so much.
Seth was preceded in death by his wife Elaine, his siblings Claud Joseph Alder, Lynn Campbell Alder, Roma Alder Nielsen, and a grandson Jonathan Reed Alder.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the Providence LDS Chapel at 300 South Main Street, Providence, UT. A viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at Allen Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah. Friends may also attend the viewing on Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Providence LDS Chapel from 10:00 to 11:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Internment will be in the Providence City Cemetery following the services.
Published in thr Deseret News from May 20 to May 21, 2011.
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