Mildred Heaston

Millie (Mildred) Heaston

Millie (Mildred) Heaston, age 94, died on June 29, 2015 of age-related causes at the home of her youngest son Pat and his wife Sondra in Provo, Utah, where she lived and was cared for during the final years of her life.

Special thanks to Lenda Heaston, Sondra Heaston and granddaughters Andrea Heaston and Jacquie Schoonover and husband Ryan for their loving caregiving.

Millie was born in Price, Utah, on March 14, 1921, a daughter of Charles Henry and Zina Matilda Christensen Madsen and was one of 13 children. Kaysville, Utah, was her real home and was where she and her husband Leonard (Pat) raised their five sons: Dave (Lenda), Dennis (Anne), Gary (Lise), Greg (Anita) and Pat (Sondra).

She was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of her many church callings she loved scouting best. After many years of service, she was awarded scouting’s Silver Beaver.

She is survived by her five sons and by four of their wives whom she considered as the daughters promised to her in her church patriarchal blessing and is also survived by 23 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and by her younger brothers, Charlie, Cliff, Stan and Robert Madsen and by her younger sisters, Charlene Horsley, Mary Chandler and Carolyn Chamberlain.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Kaysville City Cemetery, 500 Crestwood Road where she will be buried next to her husband who preceded her in death 15 years ago. Friends may visit family Saturday from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center Street.

Services entrusted to Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 North Main.