Mary Jane Dalley Rasmussen

Surrounded by her family, Mary Jane Dalley Rasmussen died of pancreatic cancer on October 8, 2007 Mary Jane was born August 27, 1937 in Cedar City Utah to loving parents Ivan and Anna Dalley. Mary Jane, the oldest of six children, grew up in the small Southern Utah town of Summit. She loved to reminisce about life in a small farm town with neighbors who knew and loved each other. She enjoyed horseback riding in the mountains, and sleeping over at her Grandma Ordena Dalley's house. She often said she hoped that Grandma Dalley would be the first person waiting to welcome her into Heaven. She worked summers at Cedar Breaks National Monument and Zion National Park. She was the first member of her family to go to college, putting herself through school by working at the registrars? office at the College of Southern Utah. It was there she met the man that she would love for the rest of her life, H. Paul Rasmussen. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 4, 1958. Mary Jane and Paul had four children: Randy Heather Ross, Lori Page Rick, Trent Renatta and Shelly Hawley Bud. She said that her husband and children where her greatest joys. She loved being a grandma to Linsey, Jake, MiKayla, Nathan, Jenna, Aidan, Spencer, Joshua, and Christina, not to mention many granddogs. Reading and books were a love in her life. She volunteered at the North Logan library and read to schoolchildren in Sarah Fenton?s 3rd grade class. She had a great collection of picture books and shared them often with her grandkids. She was a faithful servant in her church callings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Over the years she served as Primary president and stake Young Women?s counselor in Cache Valley, Relief Society president and Seminary teacher in Pullman Washington, and a Sunbeam teacher and Early Morning Seminary teacher in East Lansing, Michigan. Until her illness prevented it, she and her husband spoke together at stake conferences throughout Utah, Idaho and Wyoming as part of Paul?s calling in the Utah-Ogden Mission presidency. She is survived by her husband, children, and grandchildren, her brother David Dalley, and sisters Kathleen Dalley, Maxine Munson, and Bonnie Aston. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Leon Dalley. She and her family want to thank Alpine Hospice, particularly Amy Godfrey and Britnee Sheffield, for their loving care. They also thank Dr. Jeffrey Huffman, her primary care physician, for the extra time added to her life that his good advice provided. Her funeral will be held at North Logan First Ward Chapel, 1105 E 2100 N, North Logan Utah on Saturday October 13th at 11 AM. Viewings will be held at Nelson Funeral Home, 162 E 400 N, Logan on Friday October 12th from 6-8 PM and before the funeral at the chapel from 9:30-10:30 AM. Condolences may be extended to the family online at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com . Mary Jane loved flowers and donated regularly to Paul and Mary Jane?s favorite project, the H. Paul & Mary Jane Rasmussen Teaching Garden at the Utah Botanical Center utahbotanicalcenter.org. For those wishing to do so, either flowers or a donation to the Teaching Garden would be gratefully accepted.