Lucille Baxter Waite

Beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Lucille Baxter Waite, age 93, of Hyde Park, Utah, died Monday, March 29, 2004, in Encinitas California. She died of complications from a stroke. She was born in Wellsville, Utah, December 18, 1910, the daughter of Willard and Elizabeth Cooper Baxter. She married Delmar Waite on September 17, 1930 in the Logan LDS Temple. They enjoyed 61 years together. Delmar died July 23, 1991. She moved to Logan when she was six years old and lived there until she married. She attended schools in Logan and graduated from Logan High School in 1928. She was a bookkeeper for a grocery chain before her marriage and was a teacher in the Sunday school. She was always an active member of the LDS church and served in many callings, including: teacher, and play leader in the primary, MIA, Sunday School, and Relief Society; also, a counselor in the Relief Society under two presidents. She served eleven years on the Stake Primary Board. She was blessed with a lovely alto voice and sang in the ward choir and the ladies chorus, and sang duets at many funerals and other gatherings. She and her husband would always sing duets while traveling in the car. She was a visiting teacher in the Relief Society for 71 years. After her children were older, she worked as a receptionist/secretary at Cache Valley Select Sires for twenty years, retiring in 1972. In 1974 she and her husband filled a mission for the LDS church in the Canada-Calgary Mission for 19 months and made many friends there. She was a good cook and enjoyed doing handwork, making quilts, afghans, dish towels and hot pads for her family and friends. She was known as the letter-writing grandma. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend to all who knew her. She always had a smile for everyone and will be missed by those who knew her. She was a member of the Hyde Park Literary Club, the Fine Arts Club, and a member of the William Hyde Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She and her husband were active in doing temple work. She is survived by two sons: J. Richard Waite, Farmington, Utah; Merlin Delmar Waite Lila Hauula, Hawaii, now serving an LDS mission in the Spanish-speaking mission in San Antonio, Texas; and one daughter: Bonnie Louise Layne, Carlsbad, California. She is also survived by one daughter-in-law, Marsha Waite, Medford, Oregon. She was blessed with 22 grandchildren, 57 great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild, and many nieces and nephews. She is also survived by two sisters-in-law: Ethel Barton of Roy, Utah and Erma Waite of Meridian, Idaho. She was preceded in death by her husband, Delmar Waite; a son, Sheldon Waite; a grandson, Devon Waite and a great grandson, Curtis Sheerman. She was also preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and two brothers. Funeral services will be held in the Hyde Park Fifth Ward Chapel, 63 East Center, on Monday, April 5, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. A viewing will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Sunday, April 4, 2004 at Nelson Funeral Home, 162 East 400 North, Logan and from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. at the Hyde Park Fifth Ward prior to services. Interment will be in the Hyde Park City Cemetery. Condolences may be extended to the family online at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com .