Ruth D. Brown

Ruth D. Brown SOUTH OGDEN – Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister, Ruth Donaldson Brown, 86, peacefully passed through the veil surrounded by her family on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at her home. Ruth was born October 3, 1922 in Ogden, a daughter of John K. and Mary Elizabeth Doxey Donaldson. She was raised and educated in Ogden where she lived most of her life. Graduating from Ogden High School, Ruth then pursued a career in nursing and earned her nursing degree from the Dee School of Nursing. She worked at the Dee Hospital in a supervisory position on the med/surgical unit and later as the clinical director of the psychiatric unit at the McKay-Dee Hospital. During World War II, Ruth was introduced to the man that became the love of her life, Loa Virgil Brown, and on February 28, 1945 they married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Together they raised their family of three daughters and two sons. Throughout her life she was loving and generous to all her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers and sisters. She received the Mother of the Year award for Weber County and was first runner-up for the State of Utah. Ruth continued her education earning a bachelor and master degrees from the University of Utah and later her doctorate degree from Brigham Young University. She began teaching psychiatric nursing at Weber State College and became a full tenured professor. On numerous occasions she was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award in the School of Allied Health Sciences and the Presidential Distinguished Professor Award in 1980-81. Ruth was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a Relief Society President, Young Women’s Advisors and Sunday School instructor. Ruth and Loa served an 18 month service mission in central Ogden and in their later years were temple workers in the Ogden Temple. Ruth enjoyed camping, fishing, boating and traveling with her family and friends. She loved attending ceramic classes with her sisters and made many precious keepsakes for her family and friends. Surviving are her husband, Loa, of South Ogden; two sons and three daughters, Loy D. (Luann) Brown, Michael D. (Jan) Brown, Michelle (Steve) Barker, Stacey (Walt) Gilmore, Carol (Curtis) Tanner, 23 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are four brothers and four sisters, David, Jay, Harold and Paul Donaldson, Joann Quinn, Helen Bingham, Barbara Nelson, and Carol Checketts. Preceding Ruth in death was her daughter, Robin, brothers, Walter, John, Robert, Darrell and Jack Donaldson; sisters, Hazel Donaldson, May West, and Arlene Phillips; and two grandsons, Benjamin Brown and Kyle Gilmore. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Burch Creek Stake Center, 4955 Adams Avenue, South Ogden. Friends may call at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd., on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Tuesday at the Stake Center from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Interment, Lindquist’s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd. Send condolences to the family at: www.lindquistmortuary.com