Sylvia Sue Fisher Bevan, teacher, singer, musician, and, according to her husband, Jim, a "continuous spectator sport," died unexpectedly on April 2, 2015 of cardiac arrest in Barcelona, Spain, doing what she loved, traveling with Jim.
She was born August 20, 1943 in Santa Maria, California, the youngest of five children of Frank Truman Fisher and Nellie Rex Smith Fisher.
She moved with her family from Santa Maria to Altadena, California, where she spent her childhood and teenage years, interspersed with summer vacations in Randolph, where she rode horses and fell in love with the rural West. She would have liked to live in Randolph except for its distance from theater, opera, symphony, and chamber concerts in Salt Lake.
She was educated at Pasadena City College, Brigham Young University, and Los Angeles State University, where she majored in music. Her passion was teaching, especially music, which she did in California, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas.
In Texas, she taught music to all elementary age students, instilling in them a love of classical as well as popular music.
With Jim as her producer, she presented media-rich lessons such as a slide show of Pavarotti at the time of his death, which her students wanted to hear over and over; they wanted to hear the entire Magic Flute after seeing Papageno on a video excerpt. They also wanted to see Pagliacci over and over after hearing Pavarotti sing "Vesti la Giubba."
With Jim, she directed her students in about thirty mini-musicals including Annie. Her 5th graders sang the theme from Polar Express three weeks after the movie was released.
She and James Bevan were married on June 29, 2002 in the Bountiful Temple and lived in Mansfield, Texas until their respective retirements.
In 2004, they built a home in Heber, where they have lived since retirement in 2011. Together, they traveled twice to the Caribbean, four times to Europe, and countless times to Southern California, where both of them originated.
Sylvia was spontaneous and outgoing, made friends quickly and easily; a step-son said of her, "Sylvia knew no strangers."
Despite serious illnesses, she always sprang back with energy and imagination, thrilled with life. "Keep the basement warm, Jim, and listen to beautiful music while I walk the dogs."
She was a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and loved her association with her sisters in the temple.
She is survived by her husband, James; her children, Jessica Gatewood (Scottt), David Fisher (Caryn), and Joshua Tso; four grandchildren; a brother, Franklin (Rosemary Beless); a brother-in-law, Von Haws; numerous nieces and nephews; and step-children Marni Bevan Sanft (Doran), Joshua Andrew Bevan (Kate), Julie Larissa Bevan Warehime (John), and Cassandra Marie Bevan. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Mary Lou Fisher and Carol Anne Haws; and a brother, Truman.
There will be a visitation held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2015 at Sunset Lawn, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City. The funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in the Heber Fourteenth Ward Chapel, 1205 West 650 South, Heber City.
Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 15, 2015.
She was born August 20, 1943 in Santa Maria, California, the youngest of five children of Frank Truman Fisher and Nellie Rex Smith Fisher.
She moved with her family from Santa Maria to Altadena, California, where she spent her childhood and teenage years, interspersed with summer vacations in Randolph, where she rode horses and fell in love with the rural West. She would have liked to live in Randolph except for its distance from theater, opera, symphony, and chamber concerts in Salt Lake.
She was educated at Pasadena City College, Brigham Young University, and Los Angeles State University, where she majored in music. Her passion was teaching, especially music, which she did in California, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas.
In Texas, she taught music to all elementary age students, instilling in them a love of classical as well as popular music.
With Jim as her producer, she presented media-rich lessons such as a slide show of Pavarotti at the time of his death, which her students wanted to hear over and over; they wanted to hear the entire Magic Flute after seeing Papageno on a video excerpt. They also wanted to see Pagliacci over and over after hearing Pavarotti sing "Vesti la Giubba."
With Jim, she directed her students in about thirty mini-musicals including Annie. Her 5th graders sang the theme from Polar Express three weeks after the movie was released.
She and James Bevan were married on June 29, 2002 in the Bountiful Temple and lived in Mansfield, Texas until their respective retirements.
In 2004, they built a home in Heber, where they have lived since retirement in 2011. Together, they traveled twice to the Caribbean, four times to Europe, and countless times to Southern California, where both of them originated.
Sylvia was spontaneous and outgoing, made friends quickly and easily; a step-son said of her, "Sylvia knew no strangers."
Despite serious illnesses, she always sprang back with energy and imagination, thrilled with life. "Keep the basement warm, Jim, and listen to beautiful music while I walk the dogs."
She was a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and loved her association with her sisters in the temple.
She is survived by her husband, James; her children, Jessica Gatewood (Scottt), David Fisher (Caryn), and Joshua Tso; four grandchildren; a brother, Franklin (Rosemary Beless); a brother-in-law, Von Haws; numerous nieces and nephews; and step-children Marni Bevan Sanft (Doran), Joshua Andrew Bevan (Kate), Julie Larissa Bevan Warehime (John), and Cassandra Marie Bevan. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Mary Lou Fisher and Carol Anne Haws; and a brother, Truman.
There will be a visitation held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2015 at Sunset Lawn, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City. The funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in the Heber Fourteenth Ward Chapel, 1205 West 650 South, Heber City.
Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 15, 2015.
Sylvia Sue Fisher Bevan, teacher, singer, musician, and, according to her husband, Jim, a "continuous spectator sport," died unexpectedly on April 2, 2015 of cardiac arrest in Barcelona, Spain, doing what she loved, traveling with Jim.
She was born August 20, 1943 in Santa Maria, California, the youngest of five children of Frank Truman Fisher and Nellie Rex Smith Fisher.
She moved with her family from Santa Maria to Altadena, California, where she spent her childhood and teenage years, interspersed with summer vacations in Randolph, where she rode horses and fell in love with the rural West. She would have liked to live in Randolph except for its distance from theater, opera, symphony, and chamber concerts in Salt Lake.
She was educated at Pasadena City College, Brigham Young University, and Los Angeles State University, where she majored in music. Her passion was teaching, especially music, which she did in California, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas.
In Texas, she taught music to all elementary age students, instilling in them a love of classical as well as popular music.
With Jim as her producer, she presented media-rich lessons such as a slide show of Pavarotti at the time of his death, which her students wanted to hear over and over; they wanted to hear the entire Magic Flute after seeing Papageno on a video excerpt. They also wanted to see Pagliacci over and over after hearing Pavarotti sing "Vesti la Giubba."
With Jim, she directed her students in about thirty mini-musicals including Annie. Her 5th graders sang the theme from Polar Express three weeks after the movie was released.
She and James Bevan were married on June 29, 2002 in the Bountiful Temple and lived in Mansfield, Texas until their respective retirements.
In 2004, they built a home in Heber, where they have lived since retirement in 2011. Together, they traveled twice to the Caribbean, four times to Europe, and countless times to Southern California, where both of them originated.
Sylvia was spontaneous and outgoing, made friends quickly and easily; a step-son said of her, "Sylvia knew no strangers."
Despite serious illnesses, she always sprang back with energy and imagination, thrilled with life. "Keep the basement warm, Jim, and listen to beautiful music while I walk the dogs."
She was a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and loved her association with her sisters in the temple.
She is survived by her husband, James; her children, Jessica Gatewood (Scottt), David Fisher (Caryn), and Joshua Tso; four grandchildren; a brother, Franklin (Rosemary Beless); a brother-in-law, Von Haws; numerous nieces and nephews; and step-children Marni Bevan Sanft (Doran), Joshua Andrew Bevan (Kate), Julie Larissa Bevan Warehime (John), and Cassandra Marie Bevan. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Mary Lou Fisher and Carol Anne Haws; and a brother, Truman.
There will be a visitation held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2015 at Sunset Lawn, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City. The funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in the Heber Fourteenth Ward Chapel, 1205 West 650 South, Heber City.
Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 15, 2015.
She was born August 20, 1943 in Santa Maria, California, the youngest of five children of Frank Truman Fisher and Nellie Rex Smith Fisher.
She moved with her family from Santa Maria to Altadena, California, where she spent her childhood and teenage years, interspersed with summer vacations in Randolph, where she rode horses and fell in love with the rural West. She would have liked to live in Randolph except for its distance from theater, opera, symphony, and chamber concerts in Salt Lake.
She was educated at Pasadena City College, Brigham Young University, and Los Angeles State University, where she majored in music. Her passion was teaching, especially music, which she did in California, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas.
In Texas, she taught music to all elementary age students, instilling in them a love of classical as well as popular music.
With Jim as her producer, she presented media-rich lessons such as a slide show of Pavarotti at the time of his death, which her students wanted to hear over and over; they wanted to hear the entire Magic Flute after seeing Papageno on a video excerpt. They also wanted to see Pagliacci over and over after hearing Pavarotti sing "Vesti la Giubba."
With Jim, she directed her students in about thirty mini-musicals including Annie. Her 5th graders sang the theme from Polar Express three weeks after the movie was released.
She and James Bevan were married on June 29, 2002 in the Bountiful Temple and lived in Mansfield, Texas until their respective retirements.
In 2004, they built a home in Heber, where they have lived since retirement in 2011. Together, they traveled twice to the Caribbean, four times to Europe, and countless times to Southern California, where both of them originated.
Sylvia was spontaneous and outgoing, made friends quickly and easily; a step-son said of her, "Sylvia knew no strangers."
Despite serious illnesses, she always sprang back with energy and imagination, thrilled with life. "Keep the basement warm, Jim, and listen to beautiful music while I walk the dogs."
She was a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and loved her association with her sisters in the temple.
She is survived by her husband, James; her children, Jessica Gatewood (Scottt), David Fisher (Caryn), and Joshua Tso; four grandchildren; a brother, Franklin (Rosemary Beless); a brother-in-law, Von Haws; numerous nieces and nephews; and step-children Marni Bevan Sanft (Doran), Joshua Andrew Bevan (Kate), Julie Larissa Bevan Warehime (John), and Cassandra Marie Bevan. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Mary Lou Fisher and Carol Anne Haws; and a brother, Truman.
There will be a visitation held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2015 at Sunset Lawn, 2350 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City. The funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in the Heber Fourteenth Ward Chapel, 1205 West 650 South, Heber City.
Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 15, 2015.
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