Maxine Sessions

Maxine Sessions

Our sweet mom and grandma, Maxine Emma Gumbrecht Sessions passed peacefully from mortality on the morning of April 6, 2018.

She was a New Year’s Eve baby, born in Standardville, Utah to Eduard Walter and Elizabeth Elmer Gumbrecht.  She married her sweetheart, Rulon Lawrence Sessions on January 24, 1946.  Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.

Mom and dad raised five children in Clearfield and later Bountiful, Utah where they lived for over 50 years.  Rulon passed away in 2013.

Mom’s love for and selfless devotion to family is legendary.  She was so easy to love and we simply adored her.  She loved gardening and instilled her love of flowers in her posterity.   She valued and taught hard work, honesty and generosity and was an optimistic and happy person throughout her life.

She and dad loved traveling together anywhere, fishing or hunting with family and friends, eating out, college basketball and football (though not on TV as it made her too nervous to watch!) and visiting, especially if she had the opportunity to feed you. She converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints as a young woman and faithfully served in many callings.

She is survived by her five children: Sharyn Heiner, Brent (Chris) Sessions, Rick (Lynette) Sessions, Debbie (Gary) Fowler, and Lori (Mike) Sims, 14 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Rulon, her two brothers Orlan and Ted, brothers-in-law Dean and Howard and sisters-in-law Norma and Dorlene, and great-granddaughter Avi Jo.

In keeping with mom’s wishes a visitation will be held Friday, April 13, 2018 from 6-8 p.m. at Lindquist’s Bountiful Mortuary, 727 N. 400 E. and Saturday, April 14th from 9:30-10:30 a.m. with graveside services to follow at 11:00 a.m. at Lakeview Memorial Estates, 1640 Lakeview Dr. Bountiful, Utah.

We express our thanks to mom’s many friends at Apple Village Assisted Living where she lived for the past 3 years.