Laura Jackson Kunz, 92, passed away on September 12, 2014 in Salt Lake City of causes incident to age.
She was born in Salt Lake City on September 7, 1922 to Samuel Andrew and Annie Iretta Woolley Jackson. She was the eleventh of twelve children.
Laura was raised in the Salt Lake Valley, graduating from East High School, and received her nurses' training at the LDS Hospital, University of Utah Nursing Program in Salt Lake City.
She married Kenneth K. Kunz on October 5, 1942 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The officiator was Harold B. Lee. In 2012, Kenneth and Laura celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary together and Kenneth passed away shortly thereafter. Together, they raised their family of nine children beginning in Southern California. In 1944, they moved to Salt Lake City, where they lived in the Tenth Ward and then the Yale Ward.
Laura was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many teaching and leadership positions in the Relief Society and also the Cub Scout program. She served with great love and kindness.
As she raised her nine children, there was always fresh baked bread and cinnamon rolls in the oven. Every fall, she would can peaches, pears, apricots, and tomatoes by the bushel. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved to quilt and sew temple clothing and quilts for friends and family members.
She was an active member of the International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She enjoyed participating in the ISDUP functions and was honored to have that be a part of her heritage.
Laura leaves behind a legacy of compassion, service, sacrifice, and love.
Laura loved the Lord, her husband, and her family. She appreciated life and was privileged to experience the joy of hard work and accomplishment. She gave each of her children the gift of music as well as teaching them to value education. Her legacy has been given to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She instilled in their souls the importance of the words 'Carry On.'
We honor and love you cherished wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend and we will Carry On.
Laura is survived by her nine children, fifty-three grandchildren, and 109 great-grandchildren. Sons: Clyde (Claudia), Keith (Katherine), Dwight (Milly), and Garth (Susanne); daughters: Calleen (Kim) Martindale, Janna Kunz, Brenda (Lindsi) Canevari, Lorraine (Halston) Davis, and Marnae (Bill) Hammond; and sister: Esther (Earl) Wallace.
On Friday, September 19, 2014, a viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Jenkins Soffe Mortuary, 4760 South State Street (100 East), Murray. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Yale Ward Chapel, 1431 East Gilmer Drive, Salt Lake City, with a viewing prior to the services from 10:00-10:45 a.m.
Interment will be in the Murray City Cemetery, 5490 South Vine Street (730 East), Murray.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from September 14 to September 18, 2014.
She was born in Salt Lake City on September 7, 1922 to Samuel Andrew and Annie Iretta Woolley Jackson. She was the eleventh of twelve children.
Laura was raised in the Salt Lake Valley, graduating from East High School, and received her nurses' training at the LDS Hospital, University of Utah Nursing Program in Salt Lake City.
She married Kenneth K. Kunz on October 5, 1942 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The officiator was Harold B. Lee. In 2012, Kenneth and Laura celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary together and Kenneth passed away shortly thereafter. Together, they raised their family of nine children beginning in Southern California. In 1944, they moved to Salt Lake City, where they lived in the Tenth Ward and then the Yale Ward.
Laura was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many teaching and leadership positions in the Relief Society and also the Cub Scout program. She served with great love and kindness.
As she raised her nine children, there was always fresh baked bread and cinnamon rolls in the oven. Every fall, she would can peaches, pears, apricots, and tomatoes by the bushel. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved to quilt and sew temple clothing and quilts for friends and family members.
She was an active member of the International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She enjoyed participating in the ISDUP functions and was honored to have that be a part of her heritage.
Laura leaves behind a legacy of compassion, service, sacrifice, and love.
Laura loved the Lord, her husband, and her family. She appreciated life and was privileged to experience the joy of hard work and accomplishment. She gave each of her children the gift of music as well as teaching them to value education. Her legacy has been given to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She instilled in their souls the importance of the words 'Carry On.'
We honor and love you cherished wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend and we will Carry On.
Laura is survived by her nine children, fifty-three grandchildren, and 109 great-grandchildren. Sons: Clyde (Claudia), Keith (Katherine), Dwight (Milly), and Garth (Susanne); daughters: Calleen (Kim) Martindale, Janna Kunz, Brenda (Lindsi) Canevari, Lorraine (Halston) Davis, and Marnae (Bill) Hammond; and sister: Esther (Earl) Wallace.
On Friday, September 19, 2014, a viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Jenkins Soffe Mortuary, 4760 South State Street (100 East), Murray. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Yale Ward Chapel, 1431 East Gilmer Drive, Salt Lake City, with a viewing prior to the services from 10:00-10:45 a.m.
Interment will be in the Murray City Cemetery, 5490 South Vine Street (730 East), Murray.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from September 14 to September 18, 2014.
Laura Jackson Kunz, 92, passed away on September 12, 2014 in Salt Lake City of causes incident to age.
She was born in Salt Lake City on September 7, 1922 to Samuel Andrew and Annie Iretta Woolley Jackson. She was the eleventh of twelve children.
Laura was raised in the Salt Lake Valley, graduating from East High School, and received her nurses' training at the LDS Hospital, University of Utah Nursing Program in Salt Lake City.
She married Kenneth K. Kunz on October 5, 1942 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The officiator was Harold B. Lee. In 2012, Kenneth and Laura celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary together and Kenneth passed away shortly thereafter. Together, they raised their family of nine children beginning in Southern California. In 1944, they moved to Salt Lake City, where they lived in the Tenth Ward and then the Yale Ward.
Laura was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many teaching and leadership positions in the Relief Society and also the Cub Scout program. She served with great love and kindness.
As she raised her nine children, there was always fresh baked bread and cinnamon rolls in the oven. Every fall, she would can peaches, pears, apricots, and tomatoes by the bushel. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved to quilt and sew temple clothing and quilts for friends and family members.
She was an active member of the International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She enjoyed participating in the ISDUP functions and was honored to have that be a part of her heritage.
Laura leaves behind a legacy of compassion, service, sacrifice, and love.
Laura loved the Lord, her husband, and her family. She appreciated life and was privileged to experience the joy of hard work and accomplishment. She gave each of her children the gift of music as well as teaching them to value education. Her legacy has been given to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She instilled in their souls the importance of the words 'Carry On.'
We honor and love you cherished wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend and we will Carry On.
Laura is survived by her nine children, fifty-three grandchildren, and 109 great-grandchildren. Sons: Clyde (Claudia), Keith (Katherine), Dwight (Milly), and Garth (Susanne); daughters: Calleen (Kim) Martindale, Janna Kunz, Brenda (Lindsi) Canevari, Lorraine (Halston) Davis, and Marnae (Bill) Hammond; and sister: Esther (Earl) Wallace.
On Friday, September 19, 2014, a viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Jenkins Soffe Mortuary, 4760 South State Street (100 East), Murray. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Yale Ward Chapel, 1431 East Gilmer Drive, Salt Lake City, with a viewing prior to the services from 10:00-10:45 a.m.
Interment will be in the Murray City Cemetery, 5490 South Vine Street (730 East), Murray.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from September 14 to September 18, 2014.
She was born in Salt Lake City on September 7, 1922 to Samuel Andrew and Annie Iretta Woolley Jackson. She was the eleventh of twelve children.
Laura was raised in the Salt Lake Valley, graduating from East High School, and received her nurses' training at the LDS Hospital, University of Utah Nursing Program in Salt Lake City.
She married Kenneth K. Kunz on October 5, 1942 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The officiator was Harold B. Lee. In 2012, Kenneth and Laura celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary together and Kenneth passed away shortly thereafter. Together, they raised their family of nine children beginning in Southern California. In 1944, they moved to Salt Lake City, where they lived in the Tenth Ward and then the Yale Ward.
Laura was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many teaching and leadership positions in the Relief Society and also the Cub Scout program. She served with great love and kindness.
As she raised her nine children, there was always fresh baked bread and cinnamon rolls in the oven. Every fall, she would can peaches, pears, apricots, and tomatoes by the bushel. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved to quilt and sew temple clothing and quilts for friends and family members.
She was an active member of the International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She enjoyed participating in the ISDUP functions and was honored to have that be a part of her heritage.
Laura leaves behind a legacy of compassion, service, sacrifice, and love.
Laura loved the Lord, her husband, and her family. She appreciated life and was privileged to experience the joy of hard work and accomplishment. She gave each of her children the gift of music as well as teaching them to value education. Her legacy has been given to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She instilled in their souls the importance of the words 'Carry On.'
We honor and love you cherished wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend and we will Carry On.
Laura is survived by her nine children, fifty-three grandchildren, and 109 great-grandchildren. Sons: Clyde (Claudia), Keith (Katherine), Dwight (Milly), and Garth (Susanne); daughters: Calleen (Kim) Martindale, Janna Kunz, Brenda (Lindsi) Canevari, Lorraine (Halston) Davis, and Marnae (Bill) Hammond; and sister: Esther (Earl) Wallace.
On Friday, September 19, 2014, a viewing will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Jenkins Soffe Mortuary, 4760 South State Street (100 East), Murray. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Yale Ward Chapel, 1431 East Gilmer Drive, Salt Lake City, with a viewing prior to the services from 10:00-10:45 a.m.
Interment will be in the Murray City Cemetery, 5490 South Vine Street (730 East), Murray.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from September 14 to September 18, 2014.
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