Barbara Florence Tucker

Barbara Florence Tucker

Barbara Florence Tucker passed away on April 2, 2013 at McKay Dee Hospital. She was 89 years old.

She was born on September 14, 1923 in Duchesne, Utah to Robert and Florence Murray Perkins. She married Stanley H. Tucker on September 1, 1938 in Evanston, Wyoming. They started their life together in Springville, Utah then moved to Carlin, Nevada where they raised their six children. In 1978, they moved to Pleasant View, Utah which became their final home.

Besides making a wonderful home for her family, she worked as a waitress in Elko, Nevada for many years. When they moved to Utah, she worked as a seamstress in Brigham City and also for Coleman Knitting in Ogden. Barbara loved sewing and made the wedding dresses for her daughter and two of her granddaughters. Her hobbies also included canning, gardening, sewing, knitting, crocheting and cooking.

Barbara was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all her life and served in many callings. She was sealed to Stanley H. Tucker in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

Barbara is survived by her daughter, Candace Tucker Brown of Ogden, UT; daughter-in-law, Bridget Tucker of Florence, AZ; 12 grandchildren including, Wayne Joel Brown and Stephanie RaNae Brown Batt of Ogden, UT; Holly Ann Brown Hoss of Ivins, UT; Darren Rogers of Colorado Springs, CO; Dawn Eileen Tucker of Moscow, Russia; and Jennifer Amerson of Fallen, NV; 32 great-grandchildren; and sister, Leola (Perkins) Daniels of West Valley, Utah.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley; sons, Bobby, Jimmy, Rodney, Earl and Stanley O. Tucker.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11 a.m. at the Pleasant View Chapel, 2975 N. 1000 W., Pleasant View. Friends will meet with family Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment, Carlin Cemetery, Carlin, NV on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 11 a.m.

Arrangements entrusted to Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary.