Elsie Margaret Godfrey Welling

Fielding, UT - Our beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Elsie M. Godfrey Welling, 90, passed from this life March 28, 2010, at her home surrounded by her family. Elsie was born August 1, 1919 in Clarkston, Utah to John Morris and Priscilla Buttars Godfrey. She was the youngest of eight children, with four brothers and three sisters. She attended North Cache High School graduating in 1937. A year later she married her sweetheart and eternal companion, Wendell Holmes Welling in the Logan LDS Temple September 16, 1938. She moved to his hometown of Fielding, Utah where they had three daughters: Virginia Gil Walker; Connie Gordon Watts, and Glori Ted Alsop. Wendell operated a grain business for most of their lives together. He later started Belmont Hot Springs where Elsie originally helped with the bookkeeping. Wendell passed away suddenly March 8, 1978.
Elsie loved to attend the Logan LDS temple and went on a weekly basis for years with lady friends. She enjoyed many church callings including Stake Cultural Refinement leader, and Name Extraction genealogy work which she did for 12 years. She loved to make all kinds of candy and dipped chocolates which her family and friends enjoyed especially at Christmastime. She bottled several kinds of fruit and was appreciated in the fall for making her famous peach ice cream and for spending days putting up freezer corn for the family. She was well-known in town for walking three miles a day for nearly twenty of her later years with her friend, Rhoda Welling.
She is survived by one brother, Verl Godfrey, her daughters, 12 grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers: J. Morris Jr., Nathan, and Larue and three sisters: Sarah Clark, Cora Godfrey, Elva Ravsten, son-in-law, Scott C. Holmgren, and two great-grandchildren, Bradley and Andrew Baxter.
The family wishes to express their deepest appreciation to Alpine Hospice for their service to our mother during the past week. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogers and Taylor Mortuary. Visitation for friends and family will be held Wednesday, March 31, 2010 in the evening from 6:00-8:00 at the mortuary, 111 North 100 East, Tremonton, UT, and Thursday, April 1, 2010 at the Fielding LDS Stake Center, 4375 West 15600 North, Fielding, UT between 10:30 -11:30 a.m. Funeral services will begin at 12 noon. Interment is at the Fielding cemetery.