Nancene Adams Facer

Nancene Adams Facer

LAYTON - On May 9, 2007, at 1:45 p.m. Nancene Adams Facer passed from this life to eternity. She was surrounded by family and friends at the end.

Nancene was born July 7, 1933, in Salt Lake City, Utah the first of five children born to Charley and Minnie Nance Adams. She was followed five minutes later by her twin sister.

She grew up on the old Adam''s Homestead in East Layton, when it was still a farming community of 1, 500 people. It was a childhood spent during the great depression. The children worked along side their father on the farm. Food was plentiful but money was scarce. There was also time for play. The children would ride their horses in the empty fields at the foot of the mountain. All the kids would gather at the farm on Saturday night for a game of "kick-the-can." It would generally go half the night.

Nancene attended Layton Elementary School, North Davis Jr. High and Davis High School from which she graduated in 1951. She was a member of the Proscola Pep Club. Upon completion of high school, she gained employment at the KRESS Department Store in Salt Lake City. She also sold tickets at the Old Ritz Theater on Main Street in Layton. She also worked at Larkin CafAC. in Kaysville. During this period she became a member of the "Boots and Saddle" Riding Club. It was there she began a life-long love of horses.

She worked at IRS for a time before transferring to Hill Air Force Base from which she retired as a section supervisor in the Department of Transportation in 1989.

In December of 1970, a gift of a raisin cookie resulted in the most important date of her life, a date with her future husband. On November 2, 1971, she married Sherman Facer in the Salt Lake Temple. They were married by President Milton R. Hunter of the First Council of the Seventy. She married a cowboy like her mother had done and they enjoyed a marriage of love and mutual respect for 35 years.

Nancene was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she cherished her membership. She had a strong testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ. She lived a life of service centered around her family and friends. She served in the Church all her life: Secretary of the Sunday School in the old East Layton Ward, Visiting Teacher in the Relief Society, and Home Teacher with her husband in the Adamswood Ward. She also served in the Ward Library. Her interests included travel, entertaining family and friends, hunting and fishing with her husband. She loved the beauty of nature and elegant things in life. Nancene was both beautiful and elegant, she lived as an example to all of what is good and fine in life should be.

Surviving are her husband Sherman Facer, Layton; two sons Robert N. (Peggy) Facer, Roy; David W. (Melisa) Facer, Gilmer, TX; three daughters Karen (Peter) Boggiano, Preston, England; Caron Facer, Layton; Anita E. (Allan) Zimmerman, NC; nine grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, two brothers Charles P. Adams, Layton; Douglas A. (Diane) Adams, Clearfield; two sisters (twin sister) Charlene A. Maynard, Layton; and Darlene A. (Larry) Roberts, Layton. She had a very special closeness to her great-granddaughter Rainey Facer.

Preceded in death by her parents Charley and Minnie Nance Adams.

Funeral services will be held Monday, May 14, 2007 at 11 a.m. at Lindquist''s Layton Mortuary, 1867 No. Fairfield Road. Friends and family may call Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Monday from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery.