June Brewer Bell

JUNE BREWER BELL OGDEN - June Brewer Bell died in Ogden on Friday, October 9, 2009 of causes incident to age. She was born June 21, 1927 in St. Charles, Idaho, the first child of G. Stanley Brewer and Emily Wallentine Brewer. She attended her early years of elementary school in Rexburg, Idaho, and then moved to Ogden. She worked through her school years as a cashier at her father’s Dinner Horn Grocery Store on 24th and Grant. She graduated from Ogden High School in 1945, and Weber State College in 1947 with her Associates Degree. She married George Lee Bell in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple on August 4, 1947, which was the beginning of a true union of souls that continues today. They began raising their family in Ogden. She was the mother of eight children - seven sons and one daughter - and her service to them and to her 46 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren defined her life. She lived in Spring Glen, near Price, Utah, for several years in the late 50s and early 60s, where George was the credit manager at Sears and Roebuck. They returned to Ogden, and became members of the Ogden 12th Ward. She lived the remainder of her life in Ogden, moving to Forest Green in 1990. June deeply loved music all her life and was a serious and accomplished pianist and taught piano lessons. She was a member of the Edward MacDowell Piano Society. She was also a member of the “Crescendos” women’s sextet, and often accompanied soloists in church and other musical performances. She loved to embroider, and was very frequently an active and interested participant in conversation while embroidering or doing other close handwork. She loved to read, was a member of the Mystia Literary Society and the Fine Arts Guild, and was famously particular with her children about correct English grammar and usage. She was an active and diligent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints all her life, serving faithfully in many callings and positions and supporting her husband in his years of service as bishop. As George said of her, “she has a testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as solid as a brick wall.” Although she served as President of the Ogden 12th Ward and Mt. Ogden Stake Relief Societies, some of her best service was in laboring to raise funds for and help build a new LDS Chapel in Spring Glen. In the 2½ years after her husband’s death, June did “indexing” temple work, transcribing over 20,000 handwritten names from public Internet records into digital form. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband George L. Bell, and is survived by her children, Gregory S. (JoLynn Barker) Bell, Fruit Heights; Christopher J. (the late Karen Harris / Tammy Red Parker) Bell, Kaysville; Dexter L. (Rebecca Crandall) Bell, Centerville; Corey George (Kristen Sorenson) Bell, Farmington; Justin Douglas (Liane Ellertson) Bell, Salt Lake City; Nathan Wynn (Melanie Muir) Bell, Moraga, CA; Allyson Bell (Michael) Tanner, South Ogden; and Daren Russell (Janet Macedone) Bell, Farmington; by sisters Marilyn (Frank) Johnson, Centerville; Beverly (Jack) Cope, Las Vegas; and Kathi (Tom) Kimble, Salt Lake City; and brothers Stan (Diane) Brewer, Salt Lake City; and Douglas (Linda) Brewer, Holladay. Although reserved and thoughtful, she was also highly sociable, and she and her husband loved to attend parties and gatherings, had a wide circle of friends, and loved to have visitors. She was an excellent and sympathetic listener to anyone who needed to be heard. She nursed her children and husband through many illnesses and other health struggles, and was devoted and patient through them all. She was a refined and noble soul, an elect lady, completely dedicated to her family and to service, and we deeply appreciate and love her for her constant kindness, generosity and goodness. Funeral services will be held Friday, October 16 at 11:30 a.m. at the Canyon Crest Ward Chapel, 6350 Combe Road, in Ogden, with Bishop David Goff presiding. Friends and family may call at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Friday at the Ward Chapel one hour prior to services. Interment, Lindquist’s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road. The family requests donations be made to the LDS Perpetual Education Fund. Send condolences to the family at: www.lindquistmortuary.com