Hector Manalo Lazaro

Hector Manalo Lazaro

LAYTON a€" Hector Manalo Lazaro passed to his rest on Saturday, July 2, 2011 surrounded by family and friends, trusting in the promise of I Cor. 15:51-52: "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment... at the last trumpet... the dead will be raised incorruptible."

The eighth of 10 children of Hector and Felicitas Lazaro, Hector was born on October 8, 1941 in Manila, Philippines. Following school, Hector found work on the island of Guam, where he trained as an electrician.

He married Eva PAC.na in Polillo, Quezon, Philippines on September 23, 1973. The couple moved to Guam where Hector worked for Pan Am World Airways, then Exxon-Mobile, and from 1983, the US Navy Public Works Center.

When the Navy Center closed in 2000, Hector was moved by the US government to Hill Air Force Base where he worked until his retirement in 2005.

All through the years Hector enjoyed golf with his friends, fishing and camping with his family in Utah''s national parks and beyond.

Hector was a long-time member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and served as deacon during most of those years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, 3 brothers, and one sister. He is survived by his wife Eva, and sons, Nathaniel of Layton; and PFC., Juan Enrico (Eric) Lazaro, US Army, of Watertown, New York; sisters Evangeline Unsay of Mansfield, Texas; and Fely Madrigal and brothers Conrado, Bill, and Idel Lazaro, all of Pasig, Philippines.

Memorial services will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2011, at 5:30 p.m. at the Ogden Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 2185 Taylor Avenue, at the corner of 22nd and Taylor.

Donations in memory of Hector may be made to Deamude Adventist Christian School, c/o Ogden SDA Church, P. O. Box 1069, Ogden, UT 84402.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Lindquist Layton Mortuary, 1867 No. Fairfield Road.