Gertrud Wilma Chantrill died on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006, at the Billings Clinic in Billings.
Gertrud Wilma (Trudy) Chantrill was born on August 28, 1952, in Dordrecht Zuid Holland, Netherlands, the daughter of Derksen and Anna Elizabeth DeZeeuw. She recalls one ancestor's pet shop and another ancestor's tobacco shop.
At the age of five, in the spring of 1958, she came with her parents, Sister Helena Ingeborg and Brother Gerhard Wilhelm by plane to New York where they boarded a train for Salt Lake City. She remembers being unable to eat a steak dinner on the flight. In Salt Lake City she was met by her uncle Pieter DeZeeuw and his family where she stayed for a period of time. Finally they bought a house on 100 West (now 200 West) in Salt Lake City. Her father was a piemaker for a time. She graduated from Washington Elementary School and West High School. Meanwhile, she was baptized and attended the Dutch Branch of the Wells Stake of the LDS church for a while before returning to an English-speaking congregation in the 19th Ward.
Soon after she graduated from high school she married a man named Bill who had a daughter from a previous marriage. They divorced after a short time and she married Stephen Adiel Debenham, on Feb. 20, 1974, in Salt Lake City. They had a good, though childless, marriage until April 23, 1990, when her husband, who was a custodian in the Salt Palace, died of a heart attack. They lived in a family home in Millcreek east of Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, she worked mostly piece work as a sewer, medical needle installer and temporary jobs. They enjoyed traveling to places like Yellowstone Park and Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. She also enjoyed playing the accordion and piano.
When Steve died, she sold the house and moved in with her mother, where she became a dishwasher for Deseret Industries in Magna, Utah. On July 23, 1992 she married James Arlan Chantrill in Taylorsville, Utah. They lived in Taylorsville and in Salt Lake City until she found a house in Lovell that she liked and they lived there until last October when they moved to Rose City West. She worked at McDonald's in Powell and the Big Horn Restaurant in Lovell.
She was a diabetic since age 17 and that eventually caused her death due to an air embolism. She enjoyed computer games, crocheting, coloring and gardening. She was elected vice president of the Lovell Lions Club.
She will be buried at Elysian Gardens Cemetery in Salt Lake County, Utah, on Friday, Sept. 29. Cremation Funeral Gallery in Billings and Holbrook Mortuary are in charge of arrangements. There will be a graveside service at that time. A memorial service is being planned in Lovell at a later date.
She is survived by her husband of Lovell, five stepchildren, a brother, David Derksen (Bonnie) of West Jordan, Utah, two sisters, Yvonne Youngberg (Bruce) of Salt Lake City and Anna Harmon (Daniel) of Ivins, Utah, and numerous nephews and nieces.
Gertrud Wilma (Trudy) Chantrill was born on August 28, 1952, in Dordrecht Zuid Holland, Netherlands, the daughter of Derksen and Anna Elizabeth DeZeeuw. She recalls one ancestor's pet shop and another ancestor's tobacco shop.
At the age of five, in the spring of 1958, she came with her parents, Sister Helena Ingeborg and Brother Gerhard Wilhelm by plane to New York where they boarded a train for Salt Lake City. She remembers being unable to eat a steak dinner on the flight. In Salt Lake City she was met by her uncle Pieter DeZeeuw and his family where she stayed for a period of time. Finally they bought a house on 100 West (now 200 West) in Salt Lake City. Her father was a piemaker for a time. She graduated from Washington Elementary School and West High School. Meanwhile, she was baptized and attended the Dutch Branch of the Wells Stake of the LDS church for a while before returning to an English-speaking congregation in the 19th Ward.
Soon after she graduated from high school she married a man named Bill who had a daughter from a previous marriage. They divorced after a short time and she married Stephen Adiel Debenham, on Feb. 20, 1974, in Salt Lake City. They had a good, though childless, marriage until April 23, 1990, when her husband, who was a custodian in the Salt Palace, died of a heart attack. They lived in a family home in Millcreek east of Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, she worked mostly piece work as a sewer, medical needle installer and temporary jobs. They enjoyed traveling to places like Yellowstone Park and Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. She also enjoyed playing the accordion and piano.
When Steve died, she sold the house and moved in with her mother, where she became a dishwasher for Deseret Industries in Magna, Utah. On July 23, 1992 she married James Arlan Chantrill in Taylorsville, Utah. They lived in Taylorsville and in Salt Lake City until she found a house in Lovell that she liked and they lived there until last October when they moved to Rose City West. She worked at McDonald's in Powell and the Big Horn Restaurant in Lovell.
She was a diabetic since age 17 and that eventually caused her death due to an air embolism. She enjoyed computer games, crocheting, coloring and gardening. She was elected vice president of the Lovell Lions Club.
She will be buried at Elysian Gardens Cemetery in Salt Lake County, Utah, on Friday, Sept. 29. Cremation Funeral Gallery in Billings and Holbrook Mortuary are in charge of arrangements. There will be a graveside service at that time. A memorial service is being planned in Lovell at a later date.
She is survived by her husband of Lovell, five stepchildren, a brother, David Derksen (Bonnie) of West Jordan, Utah, two sisters, Yvonne Youngberg (Bruce) of Salt Lake City and Anna Harmon (Daniel) of Ivins, Utah, and numerous nephews and nieces.
Gertrud Wilma Chantrill died on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006, at the Billings Clinic in Billings.
Gertrud Wilma (Trudy) Chantrill was born on August 28, 1952, in Dordrecht Zuid Holland, Netherlands, the daughter of Derksen and Anna Elizabeth DeZeeuw. She recalls one ancestor's pet shop and another ancestor's tobacco shop.
At the age of five, in the spring of 1958, she came with her parents, Sister Helena Ingeborg and Brother Gerhard Wilhelm by plane to New York where they boarded a train for Salt Lake City. She remembers being unable to eat a steak dinner on the flight. In Salt Lake City she was met by her uncle Pieter DeZeeuw and his family where she stayed for a period of time. Finally they bought a house on 100 West (now 200 West) in Salt Lake City. Her father was a piemaker for a time. She graduated from Washington Elementary School and West High School. Meanwhile, she was baptized and attended the Dutch Branch of the Wells Stake of the LDS church for a while before returning to an English-speaking congregation in the 19th Ward.
Soon after she graduated from high school she married a man named Bill who had a daughter from a previous marriage. They divorced after a short time and she married Stephen Adiel Debenham, on Feb. 20, 1974, in Salt Lake City. They had a good, though childless, marriage until April 23, 1990, when her husband, who was a custodian in the Salt Palace, died of a heart attack. They lived in a family home in Millcreek east of Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, she worked mostly piece work as a sewer, medical needle installer and temporary jobs. They enjoyed traveling to places like Yellowstone Park and Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. She also enjoyed playing the accordion and piano.
When Steve died, she sold the house and moved in with her mother, where she became a dishwasher for Deseret Industries in Magna, Utah. On July 23, 1992 she married James Arlan Chantrill in Taylorsville, Utah. They lived in Taylorsville and in Salt Lake City until she found a house in Lovell that she liked and they lived there until last October when they moved to Rose City West. She worked at McDonald's in Powell and the Big Horn Restaurant in Lovell.
She was a diabetic since age 17 and that eventually caused her death due to an air embolism. She enjoyed computer games, crocheting, coloring and gardening. She was elected vice president of the Lovell Lions Club.
She will be buried at Elysian Gardens Cemetery in Salt Lake County, Utah, on Friday, Sept. 29. Cremation Funeral Gallery in Billings and Holbrook Mortuary are in charge of arrangements. There will be a graveside service at that time. A memorial service is being planned in Lovell at a later date.
She is survived by her husband of Lovell, five stepchildren, a brother, David Derksen (Bonnie) of West Jordan, Utah, two sisters, Yvonne Youngberg (Bruce) of Salt Lake City and Anna Harmon (Daniel) of Ivins, Utah, and numerous nephews and nieces.
Gertrud Wilma (Trudy) Chantrill was born on August 28, 1952, in Dordrecht Zuid Holland, Netherlands, the daughter of Derksen and Anna Elizabeth DeZeeuw. She recalls one ancestor's pet shop and another ancestor's tobacco shop.
At the age of five, in the spring of 1958, she came with her parents, Sister Helena Ingeborg and Brother Gerhard Wilhelm by plane to New York where they boarded a train for Salt Lake City. She remembers being unable to eat a steak dinner on the flight. In Salt Lake City she was met by her uncle Pieter DeZeeuw and his family where she stayed for a period of time. Finally they bought a house on 100 West (now 200 West) in Salt Lake City. Her father was a piemaker for a time. She graduated from Washington Elementary School and West High School. Meanwhile, she was baptized and attended the Dutch Branch of the Wells Stake of the LDS church for a while before returning to an English-speaking congregation in the 19th Ward.
Soon after she graduated from high school she married a man named Bill who had a daughter from a previous marriage. They divorced after a short time and she married Stephen Adiel Debenham, on Feb. 20, 1974, in Salt Lake City. They had a good, though childless, marriage until April 23, 1990, when her husband, who was a custodian in the Salt Palace, died of a heart attack. They lived in a family home in Millcreek east of Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, she worked mostly piece work as a sewer, medical needle installer and temporary jobs. They enjoyed traveling to places like Yellowstone Park and Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. She also enjoyed playing the accordion and piano.
When Steve died, she sold the house and moved in with her mother, where she became a dishwasher for Deseret Industries in Magna, Utah. On July 23, 1992 she married James Arlan Chantrill in Taylorsville, Utah. They lived in Taylorsville and in Salt Lake City until she found a house in Lovell that she liked and they lived there until last October when they moved to Rose City West. She worked at McDonald's in Powell and the Big Horn Restaurant in Lovell.
She was a diabetic since age 17 and that eventually caused her death due to an air embolism. She enjoyed computer games, crocheting, coloring and gardening. She was elected vice president of the Lovell Lions Club.
She will be buried at Elysian Gardens Cemetery in Salt Lake County, Utah, on Friday, Sept. 29. Cremation Funeral Gallery in Billings and Holbrook Mortuary are in charge of arrangements. There will be a graveside service at that time. A memorial service is being planned in Lovell at a later date.
She is survived by her husband of Lovell, five stepchildren, a brother, David Derksen (Bonnie) of West Jordan, Utah, two sisters, Yvonne Youngberg (Bruce) of Salt Lake City and Anna Harmon (Daniel) of Ivins, Utah, and numerous nephews and nieces.
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