Carlene Lindquist

Carlene Lindquist

March 16, 1919 ~ June 20, 2015

SOUTH OGDEN – Carlene Lindquist, 96, passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2015.  She passed away of natural causes incident to age.  She was born on March 16, 1919, in Ogden, Utah, in the old Dee Hospital, the oldest daughter of Carl A. and Florabel Taylor Lindquist.  A younger sister, Lorna Lindquist, joined the family seven years later.  Carlene attended Ogden Schools, graduating from Ogden High and was in the last graduating class of the old Ogden High School in 1938.  She graduated from Weber College in business and also attended Utah State Agricultural College in Logan for one year.  She excelled in the secretarial sciences such as shorthand, a lost art.

She married Grant Rich Humpherys in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on August 21, 1941.  They had two children, Shari L. Humpherys Franke and Carl Lindquist Humpherys.  In January 1947, following the death of her father, Carl A. Lindquist, Carlene’s mother, Florabel married Arthur Burton Foulger, on July 1, 1949, in Ogden, Utah.  Carlene and Lorna gained four stepbrothers and sisters, Kathleen Foulger (Spencer J. Klomp), Grant Arthur Foulger (Dorothy Chatland), Frederick Bingham Foulger (Clara Miller) and Josephine (“Jo”) Foulger (Richard V. Herrick), (another son, Ralph Carlyle Foulger passed away November 8, 1944 in WWII).

Carlene and Grant lived in Ogden for ten years.  (Grant was in the Navy in World War II.)  Then they moved to Salt Lake City from 1951-1956.  Next they moved to Eugene, Oregon for four months, then back to Ogden where they stayed permanently.  They later divorced.

Carlene worked for the Weber County Sheriff from 1956-1960 as a Woman Deputy Sheriff and Executive Secretary to Sheriff Leroy Hadley.  She worked for the Weber County Clerk, Wendell Hansen from1960-1965.  She then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1965 where she lived for a year, working at SCM Corporation as Office Manager for the Honolulu Branch.  Finally, she worked at home for many years for R. Dean Seely, a Court Reporter, transcribing his notes.

On December 9, 1966, Carlene married Edwin “Stuts” Hinchcliff in Ogden.  They were later divorced.

She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  When she lived in Salt Lake City she sang in the ward choir.  She enjoyed her Visiting Teachers’ and Home Teachers’ visits over the years.

She was in the following organizations: Otyokwa Club at Weber State, Alpha Chi Omega, Women’s Fraternity at Utah State, Legal Secretaries of Ogden, Chareya, Women’s Civic Club of Ogden, Eagles Lodge F.O.E., and Elks Lodge.

Carlene enjoyed synchronized swimming at the Y.W.C.A. in Salt Lake City.  She loved traveling all over the world, enjoyed playing bridge and playing golf in her younger years.  She loved watching sports on television, especially football and basketball games and she loved the Utah Jazz.

Carlene is survived by her two children, Shari L. Humpherys Franke (Don W. Franke) of Uintah Highlands; and Carl Lindquist Humpherys (Chris Thornock Humpherys) of South Weber.  She has seven grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.  She also has five step-grandchildren, and 15 step-great-grandchildren; her former brother-in-law, Glen Van Leeuwen, Harrisville; niece, Tracy Van Leeuwen Cragun, West Haven; nephew, Kurt (Venetia) Van Leeuwen, Ivins, UT; grandniece, Taylor Cragun (Kevin) Adams, Roy; two step-sisters-in-law, Dorothy Chatland Foulger and Clara Miller Foulger.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, her stepfather, five step-brothers, and sisters, four great-grandchildren, and two former husbands.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd.  Friends may visit with family the same day from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the mortuary.  Interment, Ogden City Cemetery.

The family would like to thank Manor Care of South Ogden for their good care and Legacy of Layton Hospice for helping her through her final stage of life.

The family would suggest in lieu of flowers, a donation to the Humane Society of Utah,

P O Box 573659, Murray UT 84157-3659.  Carlene had a great love for dogs and kitties and all animals.