Rhoda Weyerman Thurston

Rhoda Weyerman Thurston 91, graduated from her earthly life June 21, 2007 after a long struggle to live. Her gracious manner and strength has been an inspiration to all who knew her. At four o?clock, the morning of November 12, 1915 a tiny baby girl was born in a farmhouse in the little town of North Logan, Utah. She was named Rhoda. She was the fourteenth child born to Gottfried and Olena Hoth Weyerman. She weighed seven and a half pounds. As she grew older she inherited her father?s brown curly hair and her mother?s eyes. She started school when she was seven years old at North Logan, Utah. She was raised on a ten acre farm that produced enough food for her family and enough produce to sell in the neighboring towns. She was the last living child of her father and mother?s large family of 15 children. She loved North Logan and made many friends. Her favorite school subject was spelling. She was often the last one standing in most of the spelling matches. This interest stimulated her great love of reading and writing. She loved to write quotes of things that impressed her from the scriptures and other great minds. Her writings have filled many notebooks so she leaves behind a great legacy of learning. She had an active, creative mind and continued to study and learn from every source she could find. Her thirst for knowledge continued to the day she died. She lived by the motto; ?The noblest work of God is an honest Woman?. She has taken advantage of every source of knowledge she could acquire throughout her childhood, teaching herself to play the piano in her youth and joining her daughters in Sunday serenades. Oh! what joy they were. Our neighbor, Sister Burgess, who was homebound often thanked her for the great musical treat. Rhoda loved the simple beauties of nature. Her favorite activities were reading, quilting, writing and music, flower gardening and visiting with her numerous posterity and her good friends close to home and far away. She was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Relief Society. She also helped keep the Hyde Park chapel clean until the new chapel replaced it. She married Frank Jefferson Thurston January 17, 1939 in the St. George LDS Temple and lived most of their married life in Hyde Park. They were blessed with nine children: Thomas Janet, deceased, Las Cruses, NM, AliceDee Richmond, Ut, LaRue Thayle Hyrum, UT., Myrl Orvetta Riverton, UT, Bernard Marie Cedar City, UT , Jerry, Afton WY. Ken Vicki, Hatch, NM Rachel, Logan, UT, and Joseph.deceased. These children have given her 43 grandchildren, 109 great grandchildren, and 2 great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Jefferson Thurston, Her son Joseph Wallace Thurston; Her parents, Gottfred and Olena Hoth Weyerman. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. June 25, 2007 at the Hyde Park Center St. Chapel, 65 East Center, Hyde Park, UT. A viewing will be held from 9-10:30 a.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Hyde Park Cemetery. Condolences may be extended to the family online at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com . The Thurston family would like to extend a special thanks to the staff of Legacy House for their generous care of our mother and also to Alpine Hospice Care givers and Chaplain Gib Hull for their loving care.