Marjorie Wagers Thatcher Dickson

A Celebration of the Life of

Marjorie Wagers Thatcher Dickson

Today we celebrate the life of a remarkable woman, teacher, poetess, writer, aunt and friend, but most of all dedicated Mom and Grammy. She passed away on August 15th , 2009 in Fruit Heights, Utah. She was born on a ranch in a lovely mountain valley near Granby, Colorado on the 6th of June, 1915 to Ray and Myrtle Mitchell Wagers. She was the oldest of 6 children. She graduated from Brigham Young University then met and married Harold Thatcher and they lived in Provo, Utah where their four children were born.

She has led an extraordinary life, not because she turned the world around, but because she has touched the lives and hearts of many. As an English teacher at Davis High for 25 years, she taught thousands of students the joy of literature and the importance of doing their best. To us, her family, she is our precious Mom who as a young single mother with the responsibility of raising four children on her own, brought us to Kaysville because she knew this quiet small town would nurture her little ones. She invariably faced the future with determination, unquenchable curiosity, excitement, and with a truly grateful heart.

She was always eager to make a memory whether with her loved ones or with dear friends. She so loved to travel, and we often joked she would get into any car or plane that was leaving town. Early on, Mom purchased an old pioneer log cabin and the surrounding land on the shores of Bear Lake where her family has made many memories together. Because of her wisdom and foresight many memories will yet be made by her posterity.

Later in life, she married her college sweetheart and soul-mate Ned B. Dickson. They built their "Cottage" at Bear Lake and enjoyed it together for 10 years before his passing in 2001. In her quiet years she has gently taught us about dignity and patience. Marjorie always had a close relationship with God and in her later years enjoyed her membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Marjorie had an unwavering love and conviction of the goodness and strengths of her ancestors, who were frontiersmen and great patriots. She wrote a book entitled "The Survivors" where she penned "Finally, my dear children we must give thanks to our God for we have been greatly blessed to be descendants of these hardy folk." With determination, we who survive will try our best to honor her by living lives worthy of her great example.

Welcoming her to Heaven are her husband and soul-mate, Ned; three precious granddaughters, Mandy Olsen, Annie Olsen and Trisha Hubrich; her parents and five siblings.

Staying behind to carry on her legacy are her four children, Terry (Linda) Thatcher, Cottonwood Heights; Eileen (Mike) Stone, Brigham City; Valeri (Donnie Ray) Dunn, Payson; Bette (Wynn) Hubrich, Fruit Heights; 21 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren.

"Go carefully "

Funeral services will be held Friday, August 21, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center. Friends and family may call Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Lindquist''s Kaysville Mortuary and Friday from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery.