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Source for: Elaine Openshaw, 11 NOV 1921 - 28 JAN 2014
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Name source: S12Page: Military Service cards
Date: NOV 2011
Birth source: Place: S100Birth source: S73Page: Obit
Date: MAR 2014
Death source: Place: S100Death source: S73Page: Obit
Date: MAR 2014
Text: With a lifelong dedication to her family and faith, Elaine Openshaw Wood, who died peacefully on January 28 at the age of 92, embraced a long life filled with homemaking, work and pleasure. She had a wide circle of friends, loved traveling with her husband, and created comfortable homes in various parts of Utah and Wyoming, from the Salt Lake Valley to the mountains above Heber City, to Star Valley, to the red-rock country of St. George.
The middle daughter of Frank and Margaret Openshaw, Elaine grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from East High School where she met and fell in love with fellow student Richard Wood. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on February 6, 1942, and shared their lives together for 66 years until Dick's death in 2008. During the war, while her husband served in the South Pacific, Elaine raised their first child, Joy Lynne (Jodi). She gave birth to their next two, Mitzi (Margaret) and Ron, during the postwar years as Dick established a career in construction and architecture. Both were active in the church, where Elaine's childhood talents as a singer and dancer, along with her creativity, led her to direct many award-winning LDS "road shows," which were highly popular then.
Among her other talents, Elaine played semiprofessional baseball for a time after graduating from high school, and she wrote verse and personal recollections throughout her lifetime. Her children and grandchildren fondly recall her delicious cream puffs and divinity, as well as other homemade pastries. She delighted in her four grandchildren as they were growing up, and in her seven great-grandchildren.
One of the biggest pleasures of Elaine's life, and her husband's, was to buy and beautify recreational homes, such as the Woodshed in Midway, Utah, and several "mobile" homes that took them across the continental U.S. and to Alaska. They lived for most of their retirement years in St. George.
Survivors: Daughter Mitzi Wood-McIver, Salt Lake City; son Ron (Beverly) Wood, Jackson Hole, WY; sister Tony Chapman, Provo; granddaughters Monica Wood and Sherry West; grandsons Richard Wetzel, Ian and Patrick McIver; great-grandchildren Jordan Gilchrist, Jessica West, Janey and Griffin Wetzel, Calais and Ainsley McIver, and Decklan McIver.
Preceded in death by Richard C. Wood, husband; sister Fay Fox, daughter Jodi Wetzel; and granddaughter Meredith Wetzel.
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Source for: Rosemary Storrs, 19 SEP 1928 - 8 MAY 1976
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Birth source: Place: S100Birth source: S58Page: 529-26-5636
Date: NOV 2011
Residence source: Place: S100Residence source: S36Date: DEC 2012
Death source: Place: S100Death source: S58Page: 529-26-5636
Date: NOV 2011
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Source for: Marilyn Storrs, 3 DEC 1930 - 13 AUG 1993
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Birth source: Place: S100Birth source: S58Page: 529-34-4630
Date: NOV 2011
Residence source: Place: S100Residence source: S36Date: NOV 2012
Death source: Place: S100Death source: S58Page: 529-34-4630
Date: NOV 2011