On September 20, 2009, Alice Anita Goates Avis returned to her Heavenly Father at the age of 67 after a long fight with cancer. She resided at 4907 Country Club Drive in Highland, Utah at the time of her death.
Every moment with Alice was as warm and sunny as the day of her passing. She brightened the lives of everyone in her life. Alice was surrounded by her family when she passed. Although she left us that day, her legacy will live on forever in her family and friends.
Alice's viewing will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and on Friday, September 25, 2009 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Highland Ward Building, 5222 West Country Club Drive, Highland, UT. The Funeral Services will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at the same location from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Alice was born on April 27, 1942 in the old Lehi Hospital to Warren Goates and Marie Phillips Goates. She was the third child of four, with two older brothers, LaMar and Kenneth, and her younger sister Ileen Peterson.
She grew up in Lehi on her father's turkey farm. Alice was always proud of her heritage. She was raised in the LDS Church and held true to her faith until the end of her life. She was an example to all of us on how to live a Christ like life. Alice was married and sealed in the Salt Lake temple on June 12, 1964 to Bruce C. Watts; they divorced 30 years later. On August 17, 1995, she married Earl N. Avis. Earl passed away six years later.
Alice is survived by her seven children Julia (Gary Simpson), Eric, Gregory, Benjamin, Matthew, Jonathan (Stephanie), and Stephen Watts. She has shaped the lives of every one of her children and her seven grandchildren, Michael, Marie and Mitchell Simpson, Hailey and Thomas Watts, Kade Watts, and Kohl Brinkerhoff.
Alice graduated from LDS Business College and later attended BYU to major in textiles. She had a gift behind the sewing machine. Not only did she make most of the clothes her children wore, she also started Watts Baggs and ran it for 30 years. Watts Baggs has grown into an international company and her bags are used by Fortune 500 companies, the country's top universities, and many of the nation's top sales forces. Alice has always been very outgoing. She made friends out of everyone that crossed her path.
She loved music and dancing. She danced two to three times a week at the Murray Arts Center, up until the end of her life. She once said, "I am thankful for the abundance that is mine. Wealth is a mindset." Her positive spirit will not be forgotten. We are the wealthiest family in the world since we were given the gift of having her in our lives. We will miss her and we will always love her.
Published in the Deseret News from September 23 to September 24, 2009.
Every moment with Alice was as warm and sunny as the day of her passing. She brightened the lives of everyone in her life. Alice was surrounded by her family when she passed. Although she left us that day, her legacy will live on forever in her family and friends.
Alice's viewing will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and on Friday, September 25, 2009 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Highland Ward Building, 5222 West Country Club Drive, Highland, UT. The Funeral Services will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at the same location from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Alice was born on April 27, 1942 in the old Lehi Hospital to Warren Goates and Marie Phillips Goates. She was the third child of four, with two older brothers, LaMar and Kenneth, and her younger sister Ileen Peterson.
She grew up in Lehi on her father's turkey farm. Alice was always proud of her heritage. She was raised in the LDS Church and held true to her faith until the end of her life. She was an example to all of us on how to live a Christ like life. Alice was married and sealed in the Salt Lake temple on June 12, 1964 to Bruce C. Watts; they divorced 30 years later. On August 17, 1995, she married Earl N. Avis. Earl passed away six years later.
Alice is survived by her seven children Julia (Gary Simpson), Eric, Gregory, Benjamin, Matthew, Jonathan (Stephanie), and Stephen Watts. She has shaped the lives of every one of her children and her seven grandchildren, Michael, Marie and Mitchell Simpson, Hailey and Thomas Watts, Kade Watts, and Kohl Brinkerhoff.
Alice graduated from LDS Business College and later attended BYU to major in textiles. She had a gift behind the sewing machine. Not only did she make most of the clothes her children wore, she also started Watts Baggs and ran it for 30 years. Watts Baggs has grown into an international company and her bags are used by Fortune 500 companies, the country's top universities, and many of the nation's top sales forces. Alice has always been very outgoing. She made friends out of everyone that crossed her path.
She loved music and dancing. She danced two to three times a week at the Murray Arts Center, up until the end of her life. She once said, "I am thankful for the abundance that is mine. Wealth is a mindset." Her positive spirit will not be forgotten. We are the wealthiest family in the world since we were given the gift of having her in our lives. We will miss her and we will always love her.
Published in the Deseret News from September 23 to September 24, 2009.
On September 20, 2009, Alice Anita Goates Avis returned to her Heavenly Father at the age of 67 after a long fight with cancer. She resided at 4907 Country Club Drive in Highland, Utah at the time of her death.
Every moment with Alice was as warm and sunny as the day of her passing. She brightened the lives of everyone in her life. Alice was surrounded by her family when she passed. Although she left us that day, her legacy will live on forever in her family and friends.
Alice's viewing will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and on Friday, September 25, 2009 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Highland Ward Building, 5222 West Country Club Drive, Highland, UT. The Funeral Services will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at the same location from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Alice was born on April 27, 1942 in the old Lehi Hospital to Warren Goates and Marie Phillips Goates. She was the third child of four, with two older brothers, LaMar and Kenneth, and her younger sister Ileen Peterson.
She grew up in Lehi on her father's turkey farm. Alice was always proud of her heritage. She was raised in the LDS Church and held true to her faith until the end of her life. She was an example to all of us on how to live a Christ like life. Alice was married and sealed in the Salt Lake temple on June 12, 1964 to Bruce C. Watts; they divorced 30 years later. On August 17, 1995, she married Earl N. Avis. Earl passed away six years later.
Alice is survived by her seven children Julia (Gary Simpson), Eric, Gregory, Benjamin, Matthew, Jonathan (Stephanie), and Stephen Watts. She has shaped the lives of every one of her children and her seven grandchildren, Michael, Marie and Mitchell Simpson, Hailey and Thomas Watts, Kade Watts, and Kohl Brinkerhoff.
Alice graduated from LDS Business College and later attended BYU to major in textiles. She had a gift behind the sewing machine. Not only did she make most of the clothes her children wore, she also started Watts Baggs and ran it for 30 years. Watts Baggs has grown into an international company and her bags are used by Fortune 500 companies, the country's top universities, and many of the nation's top sales forces. Alice has always been very outgoing. She made friends out of everyone that crossed her path.
She loved music and dancing. She danced two to three times a week at the Murray Arts Center, up until the end of her life. She once said, "I am thankful for the abundance that is mine. Wealth is a mindset." Her positive spirit will not be forgotten. We are the wealthiest family in the world since we were given the gift of having her in our lives. We will miss her and we will always love her.
Published in the Deseret News from September 23 to September 24, 2009.
Every moment with Alice was as warm and sunny as the day of her passing. She brightened the lives of everyone in her life. Alice was surrounded by her family when she passed. Although she left us that day, her legacy will live on forever in her family and friends.
Alice's viewing will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and on Friday, September 25, 2009 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Highland Ward Building, 5222 West Country Club Drive, Highland, UT. The Funeral Services will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at the same location from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Alice was born on April 27, 1942 in the old Lehi Hospital to Warren Goates and Marie Phillips Goates. She was the third child of four, with two older brothers, LaMar and Kenneth, and her younger sister Ileen Peterson.
She grew up in Lehi on her father's turkey farm. Alice was always proud of her heritage. She was raised in the LDS Church and held true to her faith until the end of her life. She was an example to all of us on how to live a Christ like life. Alice was married and sealed in the Salt Lake temple on June 12, 1964 to Bruce C. Watts; they divorced 30 years later. On August 17, 1995, she married Earl N. Avis. Earl passed away six years later.
Alice is survived by her seven children Julia (Gary Simpson), Eric, Gregory, Benjamin, Matthew, Jonathan (Stephanie), and Stephen Watts. She has shaped the lives of every one of her children and her seven grandchildren, Michael, Marie and Mitchell Simpson, Hailey and Thomas Watts, Kade Watts, and Kohl Brinkerhoff.
Alice graduated from LDS Business College and later attended BYU to major in textiles. She had a gift behind the sewing machine. Not only did she make most of the clothes her children wore, she also started Watts Baggs and ran it for 30 years. Watts Baggs has grown into an international company and her bags are used by Fortune 500 companies, the country's top universities, and many of the nation's top sales forces. Alice has always been very outgoing. She made friends out of everyone that crossed her path.
She loved music and dancing. She danced two to three times a week at the Murray Arts Center, up until the end of her life. She once said, "I am thankful for the abundance that is mine. Wealth is a mindset." Her positive spirit will not be forgotten. We are the wealthiest family in the world since we were given the gift of having her in our lives. We will miss her and we will always love her.
Published in the Deseret News from September 23 to September 24, 2009.
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