Mildred Elizabeth Rose

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Mildred Elizabeth Saxey Rose

Mildred Elizabeth Saxey Rose passed away on November 12, 2010 after a sudden illness. She was born in Ogden, Utah October 8, 1919 to Albert Edward and Vorna Snow Saxey.

She was among the first graduating class of the renowned Ogden High School, the "Million Dollar High School" built by the WPA during the Depression. She attended Weber College and graduated from Brigham Young University with a major in elementary education and a minor in speech and drama.

Throughout her life, Mildred was a master teacher. She was an elementary school teacher in Clearfield and at Fort Ogden Elementary in Ogden. She served many years as a short-term and long-term substitute in Ogden City schools.

In addition, she prepared and presented countless inspiring lessons as a teacher in the auxiliaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her incomparable teaching gifts were also employed when she served as member and president of the Jane Herrick Literary Society when she made books come alive with her informative and entertaining book reviews. There are many, including her children and grandchildren, who count this amazing teacher as the best teacher they ever hada€"the one who inspired them to achieve more than they thought possible and to appreciate the good things in life.

In addition to teaching, Mildred served with her typical stamp of distinction in many other Church callings, including Young Women''s President, Relief Society President of the Mount Ogden Stake, Relief Society Education Counselor in one stake and two wards, and Education Counselor on the Relief Society Board of the Western States Mission based in Denver. In her Western States Mission assignment, she traveled to district conferences throughout Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and New Mexico.

On Valentine''s Day of 1944 she married John Sterling Rose in the Salt Lake Temple and they celebrated their anniversary every Valentine''s Day for sixty-six years through 2010. Their celebration of Valentine''s Day as sweethearts will continue uninterrupted through Eternity as Mildred joins her beloved Sterling who died in May. In 1964 Mildred and Sterling moved their family to Denver, Colorado, and they made their home there until 1982 when they returned to Utah and settled in East Layton, Utah. Those whose lives have been immeasurably blessed by this great lady are her children, Kristine Louise Rose Barrett and Paul Saxey Rose; the daughter-in-law she loves dearly, Rebecca Rose; eleven grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her brothers Wayne and Edward Saxey. More than anything else, Mildred loved being a wife, mother, and homemaker and she will always be loved in return by all those who are the beneficiaries of her loving, classy ways.

Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, November 16 at Lindquist''s Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Rd.. Friends may visit family Tuesday from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Morgan City Cemetery.