Bessie Laurine Tuveson

SMITHFIELD – Bessie Laurine Tuveson age 82 passed away peacefully on December 17, 2012. She was born on June 26, 1930 at home in Smithfield, Utah to parents James Jens Peter and Ellen Cordellia Wanner Tuveson. She graduated from North Cache High School in 1948 and graduated from Utah Agricultural College USU in 1952 with a B.S. degree in Business Administration. She worked as a bookkeeper for Smith Brothers Lumber Company, Valley Seed, and Logan Manufacturing. Bessie served an LDS mission for 18 months in the Canadian Mission from September 1960 to March 1962. President Thomas S. Monson was the Mission President. Bessie enjoyed serving in various organizations in her church. She served as Mutual secretary, Primary teacher and secretary, Sunday School teacher and also as secretary, ward and stake librarian, and as a Relief Society teacher and visiting teacher. Bessie also enjoyed serving in the German and Ellis Island Extraction program. Bessie was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and volunteered for the Smithfield Senior Citizens organization. She also worked on personal family history, gathering records and doing research. Bessie remodeled her home and made it livable and helped her mother with her never ending quilt projects, making patterns, marking quilts, sewing, and whatever she needed done. Bessie traveled on numerous family trips, from ocean to ocean, and to Hawaii. She was preceded in death by her parents and baby sister, Ruby. Bessie is survived by her brothers Jim, Virgil, Kenneth, and Thomas, and many nephews and nieces. The family would like to express gratitude and appreciation for all those who cared for her during her illness. A viewing will be held Friday, Dec. 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Nelson Funeral Home, 85 South Main, Smithfield. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. in the Smithfield 19th Ward, 640 North 200 East, Smithfield. Friends may call at the church from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Smithfield City Cemetery.