Edwin Donald Blair, the son of Edwin Claud Blair and Valera Bates Blair, died of natural causes on December 30, 2014.
Don was born in Salt Lake City on February 2, 1924.
He attended the University of Utah for a couple of quarters, but did not have enough money for more schooling and went to work full-time.
Don has always had an outgoing and happy disposition. He has been known as someone who finds good things to say about others and likes to lift people up.
He loved to sing, and like his father, could remember the lyrics of almost any of the old classics songs. He whistled while he worked and seemed to have almost endless energy.
He began to work for the Glade Candy Company (the same place his dad was employed) as a candy maker. He learned his craft well and became a master candy maker.
He later left Glade Candy and helped start a new candy company called Maxfield's, now the largest candy company in Utah, where he spent the rest of his professional career, finally retiring at the age of eighty-two.
Don was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during his youth, but was less active after finishing high school. Don later became active and was sealed in the temple to both of his wives, and enjoyed his association with the Church during the latter part of his life.
Don fell in love with Thelma Blackburn and they were married in 1946. Thelma loved Don very much and supported him every way she knew how. They had two terrific children, Linda (Miller) and Steven - both raised in the Sugar House area. Thelma passed away in 1971, and Don remarried Darlene Cordell Howells in 1974, who also preceded him in death.
Don was a great, honorable, decent, kind, caring, gracious person and we will miss him tremendously. He was a positive, uplifting, and charitable human being. We know he is happy rejoining his parents, his wives, and granddaughter, Kristina, and that he will be blessed for the good he has done in his life.
Don is survived by his brother, Evan Max Blair (La Retta Anne Lund); his sister, Elaine Bracken (Glen Bracken, deceased); another brother, James Carson Blair (Karen Marie Murdock); his son, Steven Edwin Blair (Alexis Ann Cantwell); and his daughter, Linda Dawn Miller (Michael Miller, deceased). He has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 in the Holladay Twenty-Fourth Ward Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4395 South Albright Drive, Holladay. Bishop Don Rowley will conduct the services. A viewing will be held from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., with the funeral services following at 2:00 p.m.
Graveside services will follow in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from January 5 to January 6, 2015.
Don was born in Salt Lake City on February 2, 1924.
He attended the University of Utah for a couple of quarters, but did not have enough money for more schooling and went to work full-time.
Don has always had an outgoing and happy disposition. He has been known as someone who finds good things to say about others and likes to lift people up.
He loved to sing, and like his father, could remember the lyrics of almost any of the old classics songs. He whistled while he worked and seemed to have almost endless energy.
He began to work for the Glade Candy Company (the same place his dad was employed) as a candy maker. He learned his craft well and became a master candy maker.
He later left Glade Candy and helped start a new candy company called Maxfield's, now the largest candy company in Utah, where he spent the rest of his professional career, finally retiring at the age of eighty-two.
Don was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during his youth, but was less active after finishing high school. Don later became active and was sealed in the temple to both of his wives, and enjoyed his association with the Church during the latter part of his life.
Don fell in love with Thelma Blackburn and they were married in 1946. Thelma loved Don very much and supported him every way she knew how. They had two terrific children, Linda (Miller) and Steven - both raised in the Sugar House area. Thelma passed away in 1971, and Don remarried Darlene Cordell Howells in 1974, who also preceded him in death.
Don was a great, honorable, decent, kind, caring, gracious person and we will miss him tremendously. He was a positive, uplifting, and charitable human being. We know he is happy rejoining his parents, his wives, and granddaughter, Kristina, and that he will be blessed for the good he has done in his life.
Don is survived by his brother, Evan Max Blair (La Retta Anne Lund); his sister, Elaine Bracken (Glen Bracken, deceased); another brother, James Carson Blair (Karen Marie Murdock); his son, Steven Edwin Blair (Alexis Ann Cantwell); and his daughter, Linda Dawn Miller (Michael Miller, deceased). He has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 in the Holladay Twenty-Fourth Ward Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4395 South Albright Drive, Holladay. Bishop Don Rowley will conduct the services. A viewing will be held from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., with the funeral services following at 2:00 p.m.
Graveside services will follow in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from January 5 to January 6, 2015.
Edwin Donald Blair, the son of Edwin Claud Blair and Valera Bates Blair, died of natural causes on December 30, 2014.
Don was born in Salt Lake City on February 2, 1924.
He attended the University of Utah for a couple of quarters, but did not have enough money for more schooling and went to work full-time.
Don has always had an outgoing and happy disposition. He has been known as someone who finds good things to say about others and likes to lift people up.
He loved to sing, and like his father, could remember the lyrics of almost any of the old classics songs. He whistled while he worked and seemed to have almost endless energy.
He began to work for the Glade Candy Company (the same place his dad was employed) as a candy maker. He learned his craft well and became a master candy maker.
He later left Glade Candy and helped start a new candy company called Maxfield's, now the largest candy company in Utah, where he spent the rest of his professional career, finally retiring at the age of eighty-two.
Don was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during his youth, but was less active after finishing high school. Don later became active and was sealed in the temple to both of his wives, and enjoyed his association with the Church during the latter part of his life.
Don fell in love with Thelma Blackburn and they were married in 1946. Thelma loved Don very much and supported him every way she knew how. They had two terrific children, Linda (Miller) and Steven - both raised in the Sugar House area. Thelma passed away in 1971, and Don remarried Darlene Cordell Howells in 1974, who also preceded him in death.
Don was a great, honorable, decent, kind, caring, gracious person and we will miss him tremendously. He was a positive, uplifting, and charitable human being. We know he is happy rejoining his parents, his wives, and granddaughter, Kristina, and that he will be blessed for the good he has done in his life.
Don is survived by his brother, Evan Max Blair (La Retta Anne Lund); his sister, Elaine Bracken (Glen Bracken, deceased); another brother, James Carson Blair (Karen Marie Murdock); his son, Steven Edwin Blair (Alexis Ann Cantwell); and his daughter, Linda Dawn Miller (Michael Miller, deceased). He has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 in the Holladay Twenty-Fourth Ward Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4395 South Albright Drive, Holladay. Bishop Don Rowley will conduct the services. A viewing will be held from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., with the funeral services following at 2:00 p.m.
Graveside services will follow in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from January 5 to January 6, 2015.
Don was born in Salt Lake City on February 2, 1924.
He attended the University of Utah for a couple of quarters, but did not have enough money for more schooling and went to work full-time.
Don has always had an outgoing and happy disposition. He has been known as someone who finds good things to say about others and likes to lift people up.
He loved to sing, and like his father, could remember the lyrics of almost any of the old classics songs. He whistled while he worked and seemed to have almost endless energy.
He began to work for the Glade Candy Company (the same place his dad was employed) as a candy maker. He learned his craft well and became a master candy maker.
He later left Glade Candy and helped start a new candy company called Maxfield's, now the largest candy company in Utah, where he spent the rest of his professional career, finally retiring at the age of eighty-two.
Don was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during his youth, but was less active after finishing high school. Don later became active and was sealed in the temple to both of his wives, and enjoyed his association with the Church during the latter part of his life.
Don fell in love with Thelma Blackburn and they were married in 1946. Thelma loved Don very much and supported him every way she knew how. They had two terrific children, Linda (Miller) and Steven - both raised in the Sugar House area. Thelma passed away in 1971, and Don remarried Darlene Cordell Howells in 1974, who also preceded him in death.
Don was a great, honorable, decent, kind, caring, gracious person and we will miss him tremendously. He was a positive, uplifting, and charitable human being. We know he is happy rejoining his parents, his wives, and granddaughter, Kristina, and that he will be blessed for the good he has done in his life.
Don is survived by his brother, Evan Max Blair (La Retta Anne Lund); his sister, Elaine Bracken (Glen Bracken, deceased); another brother, James Carson Blair (Karen Marie Murdock); his son, Steven Edwin Blair (Alexis Ann Cantwell); and his daughter, Linda Dawn Miller (Michael Miller, deceased). He has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 in the Holladay Twenty-Fourth Ward Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4395 South Albright Drive, Holladay. Bishop Don Rowley will conduct the services. A viewing will be held from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., with the funeral services following at 2:00 p.m.
Graveside services will follow in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, 3401 South Highland Drive (1495 East), East Millcreek.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from January 5 to January 6, 2015.
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