Mary Maughan Sargent

Mary Maughan Sargent

Born May 29, 1922, in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, died June 29, 2009, in Salt Lake City Utah. Eldest child of Howard and Hattie Maughan. Grew up in Logan and graduated from Utah State University, a proud Aggie: "Aggies Soar in Forty-Four." Married in 1944 to Ross Wayne Sargent, who died in 2002.

Mother, master gardener, quilter, seamstress and tailor, baker and candy maker. She made everything for her daughters'' weddings, including the brides. Her children and grandchildren were awed that she bought a boat and learned to water-ski at 50 and continued to the age of 70. Mary taught English and Drama at Toppenish High, Washington State. President of PTA and accomplished musician, she sang the contralto solos in College of Southern Utah''s production of Handel''s Messiah for many years. Her other roles included Maddalena in Rigoletto, Azucena in Il Trovatore, and Mercedes in Carmen.

Her secular accomplishments were surpassed only by her service to the LDS church: two missions, first in Manchester, England, and subsequently in Cherry Hill, New Jersey; ordinance worker in the Seattle and Bountiful Temples; and in many other capacities, including leadership as president in every ward and stake office open to women in Cedar City, Utah, and Yakima, Washington.

She is survived by her sister, Kathleen Lind; brothers, Howard and Leon Maughan; children, Suzanne and Jack Kirkpatrick, Kathleen and Jay Bagley, Wayne Maughan and Phylis Sargent, Saundra and Joe Buys, Dale Ross Sargent, Gay and Peter Lassen, Jerald Peter and Ann Sargent; 30 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 120 Wall Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10005, in her honor and also in honor of Anthony K. Burkhardt, a grandson.

Funeral services will be held Friday, July 3, 2009 at 2 p.m. at Lindquist''s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 North Main. Friends and family may call from 12 to 2 p.m. prior to services at the mortuary. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery.

If there are errors in this obituary, it is because our mother was not available for proof-reading duty.