Magee Zeiler

Magee Zeiler, 24, passed away June 10, 2004, after a car in Ogden the day before. At the Ogden Regional Emergency Room she was diagnosed with pneumonia after the and released. The next day she was rushed to the Logan Regional Hospital by her sister, then life-flighted to the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake, where she suffered a massive brain annurism. Magee was born under the name, Margaret Elizabeth Proctor, in Heber City, Utah, on Aug. 18, 1979, the youngest of six kids. She was known as Maggie throughout her childhood. Later her husband, Cleat, ally changed the spelling of her name to Magee, and it just stuck. She had a gleaming smile and charitable personality that drew people to her. During her childhood Magee was shy and timid but always loving. She was the cookie maker of the family and often made breakfasts, lunches and dinners for her family. Some of her best friends were animals, including her doggy friends, Shatzi, Fritz, Little Dog, her beloved beagle, Bailey, and Bailey's pups, Porky, Spike, Nellie, Eddie, Annie, Winona and Kalibaba; and cats, Patches and Chi-chi. She also loved Sophie, a filly, born on her birthday; her hamster, Clarence; and her rabbit, Wilbur. Magee attended Midway Elementary School in Midway, Utah. During middle school and high school she loved skiing with her sisters at Park West/Wolf Mountain where they weaved their skis together on the chairlifts, watched other people biff-it and learned to ski the bumps. She later picked up telemark skiing and loved skiing in the backcountry. Magee graduated from Wasatch High School in Heber in 1997. She earned her associates at Dixie College in St. George, Utah, and her bachelors in anthropology at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, in the spring of 2001. She was in the process of moving to El Paso, Texas, where she was just about to begin a masters degree. While attending Dixie, Magee learned to share her personality with others by playing roller hockey. There, she also rock-climbed, hiked and mountain biked on the sandstone and basalt. In Logan, she picked up kayaking, and after graduation, she went to the Middle Fork of the Flathead River to be a raft guide at Great Northern Raft Company. While Magee was living in her truck in Montana, she met her husband, Cleat Zeiler, at church in Columbia Falls. After Cleat moved away to college, he knew that any woman who would chase him to Butte, Mont., was a keeper. They were sealed March 16, 2002, in the Logan LDS Temple. However, Cleat says he will also always celebrate March 15, because that was the day she could have run away, but didn't barely. After high school, Magee worked on the Americorps crew at the Uinta National Forest in Heber. In Logan, she worked at Williamsburg Retirement Community, where she often burned the old people's dinners, and at the Island Market. In Montana, she worked at Children's Comprehensive Services, Noon's, the Montana Chemical Dependency Clinic and the Gard'n of Bead'n. She also loved to travel. In 1998, she went to Ufa, Russia, to teach English to schoolchildren. In the summer of 1999, she moved to Minnesota to work as the riding director at Camp Birchwood. Magee loved her sisters and came down to Logan and Provo from Montana almost every other month to visit them. She was very generous in her gifts to them, buying baby strollers, ski poles, backpacks and lots of ski hats. Most of all, she made necklaces, bracelets and earings for those she loved. Magee was preceded in by her brother, Tyler; infant brother, Jeffrey; her dogs, Shatzi, Fritz and Little Dog; grandma, Cora; and step-grandpa, Ernie. She is survived by her husband, Cleat; her "daugger," Bailey; her sisters, Jessica Jared Connors, KC Ryan McConaghie, Emily R.P. Burgon and Hannah Ben Heideman; nieces and nephews, Connor, Brenna and Niyah McConaghie, Michael and Katherine Connors and Aidan Heideman; her in-laws, Skip and Kari Zeiler; brother-in-law, J.D. Zeiler; sisters-in law Kirsten Alaqidy, Malisa Travis Maynard and Mandi Robert Zino; her parents, Susan and M.K. Proctor; and many grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, June 14, at the University 6th Stake Center, 1090 N. 600 East, Logan. A viewing will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Nelson Funeral Home, 162 E. 400 North, Logan. Magee will be buried on the hill at the Logan City Cemetery, overlooking the valley and the Wellsville Mountains.