Helen Chambers

Helen Chambers 1923-2010

Helen Marjorie Salisbury Chambers, our wonderful mother, wife, sister and grandmother passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 29, 2010. She will be dearly missed and fondly remembered.

Helen was born in Panguitch, Utah on October 17, 1923 to Orian Salisbury and Bertha McEwen Salisbury. She was the second child in the family of three children. She married Burton Orton Chambers in the Salt Lake Temple on March 5, 1943. Burton died March 28, 1999.

Helen was raised in the Big Cottonwood Canyon area. She graduated from Orem''s Lincoln High School in 1941, and attended BYU for a period of one year until the onset of WWII. During the war, she quit her schooling and began working at Hill Field Air Force Base where she met and married her husband of 57 years. Helen and Burt raised five children. She devoted her life and energy to her family. And because she always wanted to be a teacher, she devoted much of her life teaching and serving in the LDS Primary.

Later in life, Helen returned to the workforce as a bookkeeper for ZCMI. She remained employed there for 15 years. She also worked at the State Tax Commission before she retired and moved to St. George where she participated in many art classes and found her love for oil painting. She was a skilled seamstress and enjoyed painting portraits of her grandchildren and great- grandchildren.

Surviving are her five children and their spouses; Robert (Bob) and Jackie Chambers, Carolyn and Brent Blundell, Eugene (Gene) and Judy Chambers, Marilyn and Daniel Shaffer, and Patricia (Patti) and John Reese, 32 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren, four great, great-grandchildren and her two brothers, Edward Orian and Charles Darrell. She was preceded in death by her husband, two grandchildren, Shalese and Brian Blundell, and one great granddaughter Elizabeth Anne Carbone.

The family wishes to thank the many Hospice and Home Health Care workers for the special care given Helen.

Funeral services will be held 2 pm Friday, September 3, 2010 at the Orchard 3rd Ward Chapel, 261 East Center St. North Salt Lake, UT where friends may visit from 12:30- 1:30 pm prior to services. Internment Bountiful City Cemetery. Funeral directors Lindquist''s Bountiful Mortuary.