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Ivy Jeanette Russon Worlton
30 Jul 1915 – 27 Jul 2009
| Birth | 30 Jul 1915 |
| Death | 27 Jul 2009 |
| Cemetery | Lehi City Cemetery Lehi , Utah County , Utah , USA |
| Added by | Lori Stevens Nielsen on 08 Mar 2019 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94020 |
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Beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, Ivy Jeanette Russon Worlton, age 93, passed away in American Fork, Utah on July 27, 2009. She resided at 34 East 500 North in Lehi, Utah at the time of her death. She was born in Lehi, Utah to Lott Erastus and Fern Jennette Brown Russon on July 30, 1915. She was the oldest of nine children. Ivy graduated from Lehi High School and attended Brigham Young University. She and her sister Eloise were a popular singing group performing across several western states. They entertained for church and civic functions, in theatres, at C.C.C. Camps throughout Utah, and on radio broadcasts. She married Dean Timbrel Worlton on March 21, 1940 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He passed away on February 1, 2000. Ivy spent a lifetime of service in the LDS Church. Highlights included being an ordinance worker in the Provo Temple. The greatest time in her life was the 60 years she spent as the trusted companion to Dean as he served in Bishoprics, stake callings including Stake President, the Missionary Training Center Presidency and as Mission President in the Switzerland Zurich Mission. Ivy's quick wit and charm kept friends close. She created a stable, happy home where faith was taught and practiced. Her kindness and devotion to family will always be cherished. Her children are: David Timbrel (Lorene); Donald Louis (deceased); Janette Louise (Richard Allen), Douglas Steven (Connie), Evelyn Haslem Worlton (daughter-in-law) all of Lehi. She has 21 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren. She is survived by two brothers Stanford Dean and Lavell Dwayne Russon of Lehi. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the Lehi Stake Center, 200 North Center Street, Lehi. Family and friends may call at Wing Mortuary, 118 East Main Street, Lehi, on Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to the services on Friday morning at the Stake Center. Interment: Lehi City Cemetery. Published in the Deseret News on 7/29/2009.
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- Eloise Russon Radmall Seamons 1917–1997
- Arland Russon 1919–1996
- Stanford Dean Russon 1921–2020
- Lisle Tanner Russon 1924–1986
- Leland Joyce Russon 1925–1949
- Maynard B. Russon 1927–1978
- Richard Russon 1933–1933
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