Virginia Ault Coleman, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and family historian joined the ancestors she knew so well on November 22, 2013, following complications from a stroke. She was 88. Typical of Virginias quietly headstrong personality, the doctor mentioned that her body was stubborn and held on long after her spirit had departed.
Virginia was born in the Cedar Fort home of her parents, Alvin Owen Ault and Vinnie Hacking, on January 25, 1925. She belonged to the fifth consecutive generation of the Hacking family to reside in Cedar Fort. The oldest of five children and the only girl, she helped her mother raise her brothers who, to this day, lovingly call her "Sis." Virginia became a wonderful cook, adept at making candy, and never met a dessert she couldn't improve by including nuts. In her earlier years, she was surprisingly fashionable for a young lady raised during the Great Depression and experienced a bit of fame when a photo of her and her friends posing in their underwear was used as nose art on a World War II airplane. Virginia graduated from BYU, where she studied secretarial practice, teaching and played intramural basketball.
Virginia attracted the interest of a young soldier as she walked along the sidewalk with her friends, eating an ice cream cone in the middle of the winter. On February 4, 1949, almost four years later, Virginia danced with her young soldier, Louis Dean Coleman, as heavy snowfall blocked the roads outside the wedding party following their marriage in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were truly devoted to each other for 64 years.
Moving to California to start their lifelong adventure together, they eventually had six children. She loved her home in Covina, surrounded by citrus and avocado trees. Virginia appreciated the beauty around her, tending flowers, her much beloved rose garden, and surrounding herself with porcelain keepsakes and paintings that reminded her of places and people she loved. They eventually returned to Utah, where Virginia cared for her elderly mother until her passing in 1994. As a daughter, she showed devotion and love without a word of complaint. Fifteen years later, she doted on three of her great-grandchildren as she cared for them in her home as well. All her great-grandchildren adored her and she could often be found with a toddler on her lap and storybook in hand. She was stubbornly dedicated to the pursuit of perfection in all she did, whether refinishing furniture or even scrubbing the kitchen floor on her hands and knees well into her eighties. She was dedicated to her faith, having served in various church positions, her favorite of which was teaching in the Young Womens program.
Virginia was preceded in death by two daughters, Virginia and Karen, both buried as babies in the Valhalla Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. Virginia is survived by her husband, Dean Coleman, and four children: Louis Coleman of Salt Lake City; Gary Coleman and Kristine Beynon, of South Jordan; and Kathleen Hopkins of Kaysville. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and her four younger brothers: Louis Owen Ault, Midvale; Howard Raymond and Lurae Ault, American Fork; Leo Hacking and Virginia Ault, Pleasant Grove; and Leonard Orson and Judy Ault, Grantsville.
Funeral services held at River Ridge Stake Center, South Jordan, Utah. Interment, Cedar Fort Cemetery.
- Daily Herald | Provo, UT | 27 Nov 2013
Virginia was born in the Cedar Fort home of her parents, Alvin Owen Ault and Vinnie Hacking, on January 25, 1925. She belonged to the fifth consecutive generation of the Hacking family to reside in Cedar Fort. The oldest of five children and the only girl, she helped her mother raise her brothers who, to this day, lovingly call her "Sis." Virginia became a wonderful cook, adept at making candy, and never met a dessert she couldn't improve by including nuts. In her earlier years, she was surprisingly fashionable for a young lady raised during the Great Depression and experienced a bit of fame when a photo of her and her friends posing in their underwear was used as nose art on a World War II airplane. Virginia graduated from BYU, where she studied secretarial practice, teaching and played intramural basketball.
Virginia attracted the interest of a young soldier as she walked along the sidewalk with her friends, eating an ice cream cone in the middle of the winter. On February 4, 1949, almost four years later, Virginia danced with her young soldier, Louis Dean Coleman, as heavy snowfall blocked the roads outside the wedding party following their marriage in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were truly devoted to each other for 64 years.
Moving to California to start their lifelong adventure together, they eventually had six children. She loved her home in Covina, surrounded by citrus and avocado trees. Virginia appreciated the beauty around her, tending flowers, her much beloved rose garden, and surrounding herself with porcelain keepsakes and paintings that reminded her of places and people she loved. They eventually returned to Utah, where Virginia cared for her elderly mother until her passing in 1994. As a daughter, she showed devotion and love without a word of complaint. Fifteen years later, she doted on three of her great-grandchildren as she cared for them in her home as well. All her great-grandchildren adored her and she could often be found with a toddler on her lap and storybook in hand. She was stubbornly dedicated to the pursuit of perfection in all she did, whether refinishing furniture or even scrubbing the kitchen floor on her hands and knees well into her eighties. She was dedicated to her faith, having served in various church positions, her favorite of which was teaching in the Young Womens program.
Virginia was preceded in death by two daughters, Virginia and Karen, both buried as babies in the Valhalla Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. Virginia is survived by her husband, Dean Coleman, and four children: Louis Coleman of Salt Lake City; Gary Coleman and Kristine Beynon, of South Jordan; and Kathleen Hopkins of Kaysville. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and her four younger brothers: Louis Owen Ault, Midvale; Howard Raymond and Lurae Ault, American Fork; Leo Hacking and Virginia Ault, Pleasant Grove; and Leonard Orson and Judy Ault, Grantsville.
Funeral services held at River Ridge Stake Center, South Jordan, Utah. Interment, Cedar Fort Cemetery.
- Daily Herald | Provo, UT | 27 Nov 2013
Virginia Ault Coleman, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and family historian joined the ancestors she knew so well on November 22, 2013, following complications from a stroke. She was 88. Typical of Virginias quietly headstrong personality, the doctor mentioned that her body was stubborn and held on long after her spirit had departed.
Virginia was born in the Cedar Fort home of her parents, Alvin Owen Ault and Vinnie Hacking, on January 25, 1925. She belonged to the fifth consecutive generation of the Hacking family to reside in Cedar Fort. The oldest of five children and the only girl, she helped her mother raise her brothers who, to this day, lovingly call her "Sis." Virginia became a wonderful cook, adept at making candy, and never met a dessert she couldn't improve by including nuts. In her earlier years, she was surprisingly fashionable for a young lady raised during the Great Depression and experienced a bit of fame when a photo of her and her friends posing in their underwear was used as nose art on a World War II airplane. Virginia graduated from BYU, where she studied secretarial practice, teaching and played intramural basketball.
Virginia attracted the interest of a young soldier as she walked along the sidewalk with her friends, eating an ice cream cone in the middle of the winter. On February 4, 1949, almost four years later, Virginia danced with her young soldier, Louis Dean Coleman, as heavy snowfall blocked the roads outside the wedding party following their marriage in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were truly devoted to each other for 64 years.
Moving to California to start their lifelong adventure together, they eventually had six children. She loved her home in Covina, surrounded by citrus and avocado trees. Virginia appreciated the beauty around her, tending flowers, her much beloved rose garden, and surrounding herself with porcelain keepsakes and paintings that reminded her of places and people she loved. They eventually returned to Utah, where Virginia cared for her elderly mother until her passing in 1994. As a daughter, she showed devotion and love without a word of complaint. Fifteen years later, she doted on three of her great-grandchildren as she cared for them in her home as well. All her great-grandchildren adored her and she could often be found with a toddler on her lap and storybook in hand. She was stubbornly dedicated to the pursuit of perfection in all she did, whether refinishing furniture or even scrubbing the kitchen floor on her hands and knees well into her eighties. She was dedicated to her faith, having served in various church positions, her favorite of which was teaching in the Young Womens program.
Virginia was preceded in death by two daughters, Virginia and Karen, both buried as babies in the Valhalla Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. Virginia is survived by her husband, Dean Coleman, and four children: Louis Coleman of Salt Lake City; Gary Coleman and Kristine Beynon, of South Jordan; and Kathleen Hopkins of Kaysville. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and her four younger brothers: Louis Owen Ault, Midvale; Howard Raymond and Lurae Ault, American Fork; Leo Hacking and Virginia Ault, Pleasant Grove; and Leonard Orson and Judy Ault, Grantsville.
Funeral services held at River Ridge Stake Center, South Jordan, Utah. Interment, Cedar Fort Cemetery.
- Daily Herald | Provo, UT | 27 Nov 2013
Virginia was born in the Cedar Fort home of her parents, Alvin Owen Ault and Vinnie Hacking, on January 25, 1925. She belonged to the fifth consecutive generation of the Hacking family to reside in Cedar Fort. The oldest of five children and the only girl, she helped her mother raise her brothers who, to this day, lovingly call her "Sis." Virginia became a wonderful cook, adept at making candy, and never met a dessert she couldn't improve by including nuts. In her earlier years, she was surprisingly fashionable for a young lady raised during the Great Depression and experienced a bit of fame when a photo of her and her friends posing in their underwear was used as nose art on a World War II airplane. Virginia graduated from BYU, where she studied secretarial practice, teaching and played intramural basketball.
Virginia attracted the interest of a young soldier as she walked along the sidewalk with her friends, eating an ice cream cone in the middle of the winter. On February 4, 1949, almost four years later, Virginia danced with her young soldier, Louis Dean Coleman, as heavy snowfall blocked the roads outside the wedding party following their marriage in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were truly devoted to each other for 64 years.
Moving to California to start their lifelong adventure together, they eventually had six children. She loved her home in Covina, surrounded by citrus and avocado trees. Virginia appreciated the beauty around her, tending flowers, her much beloved rose garden, and surrounding herself with porcelain keepsakes and paintings that reminded her of places and people she loved. They eventually returned to Utah, where Virginia cared for her elderly mother until her passing in 1994. As a daughter, she showed devotion and love without a word of complaint. Fifteen years later, she doted on three of her great-grandchildren as she cared for them in her home as well. All her great-grandchildren adored her and she could often be found with a toddler on her lap and storybook in hand. She was stubbornly dedicated to the pursuit of perfection in all she did, whether refinishing furniture or even scrubbing the kitchen floor on her hands and knees well into her eighties. She was dedicated to her faith, having served in various church positions, her favorite of which was teaching in the Young Womens program.
Virginia was preceded in death by two daughters, Virginia and Karen, both buried as babies in the Valhalla Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. Virginia is survived by her husband, Dean Coleman, and four children: Louis Coleman of Salt Lake City; Gary Coleman and Kristine Beynon, of South Jordan; and Kathleen Hopkins of Kaysville. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and her four younger brothers: Louis Owen Ault, Midvale; Howard Raymond and Lurae Ault, American Fork; Leo Hacking and Virginia Ault, Pleasant Grove; and Leonard Orson and Judy Ault, Grantsville.
Funeral services held at River Ridge Stake Center, South Jordan, Utah. Interment, Cedar Fort Cemetery.
- Daily Herald | Provo, UT | 27 Nov 2013
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