Golden L. Stoker, 94, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003, from natural causes. He was born Dec. 31, 1908 in Clearfield to David and Emma Stahle Stoker, one of 10 children. He married Armenia (Billie) Willey on Dec. 21, 1934, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and they celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary last Christmas.
Golden grew up on the family farm in Clearfiled, where he received his early education, graduating from Davis High School, where he was student body president and received the first annual Barnes Medal for the outstanding student athlete. He attended Utah Agricultural College where he received his bachelor/s and master/s degrees in agronomy. While at college he excelled in scholarship, obtaining memberships in Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta (honorary agricultural fraternity) and Scabbard and Blade (national military fraternity). He was also elected junior class president. Upon graduation, Golden received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Golden and Billie began their married life in Beaver, where he taught school for two years. They then moved to Salt Lake City, where he served as an inspector in charge of seed certification for the state Department of Agriculture. Golden then worked as assistant county agent in Salt Lake County and later as county agent of Beaver County.
Greater opportunities led him to Salem, Ore., where he worked as agronomist for the West Coast Beet Seed Co. Seven years later, he was asked to join the faculty at Utah Agricultural College. Here he assumed the responsibility for crop improvement and seed certification in the state. He held this position until he retired in 1975.
Golden served extensively in national and international programs. He acted as president of the International Crop Improvement Association for a period of time, and this involvement required frequent trips to nearly every state in the union. He also helped establish a clean-seed program in Bolivia, where he and Billie spent several weeks.
He was an avid fisherman and hunter all of his life. He was also an excellent vegetable gardener and shared the harvest with many neighbors and relatives.
Throughout his life, he was a dedicated and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served in many capacities, including Sunday School superintendent, gospel doctrine teacher, high priest group leader, ward clerk, counselor in two bishoprics, temple ordinance worker and home teacher. By example and precept, he instilled in his family the desire to love and serve others in a Christlike way. He also served a term as president of the PTA at Adams Elementary School.
He was an eyewitness of the difficult times brought on by the Great Depression. As a result he never went into debt for anything, but saved until he could pay cash for his cars and two fine homes.
Golden was a kind, gentle, generous and caring husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He lived a long and productive life. His Christlike example of goodness will stand as a reminder to all of his posterity of the true purpose of life. Although he will be greatly missed, there is an assurance and comfort that this parting is only temporary.
Golden is survived by his wife, Billie of Logan; a son, Noel (Carol) Stoker of Clovis, Calif.; two daughters, Joan (Michael) Madsen of Washington, D.C., and Jean (Brian) Thornley of Logan; 15 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mary Heiner of Roy.
He was preceded in death by his parents and eight of his brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 22 in the Logan 18th Ward Chapel, 502 E. 300 North, with Bishop Grant Collier conducting. Friends and family may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21 at the Allen- Hall Mortuary, 34 E. Center, and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the services at the Logan 18th Ward. Burial will be in the Logan Cemetery.
The family would like to thank all from Hospice and to Lynn Allen for their assistance and loving care.
https://www.hjnews.com/obituaries/golden-lyman-stoker/article_6466bb61-4da7-5727-a61e-07965da2cd53.html
Golden grew up on the family farm in Clearfiled, where he received his early education, graduating from Davis High School, where he was student body president and received the first annual Barnes Medal for the outstanding student athlete. He attended Utah Agricultural College where he received his bachelor/s and master/s degrees in agronomy. While at college he excelled in scholarship, obtaining memberships in Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta (honorary agricultural fraternity) and Scabbard and Blade (national military fraternity). He was also elected junior class president. Upon graduation, Golden received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Golden and Billie began their married life in Beaver, where he taught school for two years. They then moved to Salt Lake City, where he served as an inspector in charge of seed certification for the state Department of Agriculture. Golden then worked as assistant county agent in Salt Lake County and later as county agent of Beaver County.
Greater opportunities led him to Salem, Ore., where he worked as agronomist for the West Coast Beet Seed Co. Seven years later, he was asked to join the faculty at Utah Agricultural College. Here he assumed the responsibility for crop improvement and seed certification in the state. He held this position until he retired in 1975.
Golden served extensively in national and international programs. He acted as president of the International Crop Improvement Association for a period of time, and this involvement required frequent trips to nearly every state in the union. He also helped establish a clean-seed program in Bolivia, where he and Billie spent several weeks.
He was an avid fisherman and hunter all of his life. He was also an excellent vegetable gardener and shared the harvest with many neighbors and relatives.
Throughout his life, he was a dedicated and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served in many capacities, including Sunday School superintendent, gospel doctrine teacher, high priest group leader, ward clerk, counselor in two bishoprics, temple ordinance worker and home teacher. By example and precept, he instilled in his family the desire to love and serve others in a Christlike way. He also served a term as president of the PTA at Adams Elementary School.
He was an eyewitness of the difficult times brought on by the Great Depression. As a result he never went into debt for anything, but saved until he could pay cash for his cars and two fine homes.
Golden was a kind, gentle, generous and caring husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He lived a long and productive life. His Christlike example of goodness will stand as a reminder to all of his posterity of the true purpose of life. Although he will be greatly missed, there is an assurance and comfort that this parting is only temporary.
Golden is survived by his wife, Billie of Logan; a son, Noel (Carol) Stoker of Clovis, Calif.; two daughters, Joan (Michael) Madsen of Washington, D.C., and Jean (Brian) Thornley of Logan; 15 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mary Heiner of Roy.
He was preceded in death by his parents and eight of his brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 22 in the Logan 18th Ward Chapel, 502 E. 300 North, with Bishop Grant Collier conducting. Friends and family may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21 at the Allen- Hall Mortuary, 34 E. Center, and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the services at the Logan 18th Ward. Burial will be in the Logan Cemetery.
The family would like to thank all from Hospice and to Lynn Allen for their assistance and loving care.
https://www.hjnews.com/obituaries/golden-lyman-stoker/article_6466bb61-4da7-5727-a61e-07965da2cd53.html
Golden L. Stoker, 94, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003, from natural causes. He was born Dec. 31, 1908 in Clearfield to David and Emma Stahle Stoker, one of 10 children. He married Armenia (Billie) Willey on Dec. 21, 1934, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and they celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary last Christmas.
Golden grew up on the family farm in Clearfiled, where he received his early education, graduating from Davis High School, where he was student body president and received the first annual Barnes Medal for the outstanding student athlete. He attended Utah Agricultural College where he received his bachelor/s and master/s degrees in agronomy. While at college he excelled in scholarship, obtaining memberships in Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta (honorary agricultural fraternity) and Scabbard and Blade (national military fraternity). He was also elected junior class president. Upon graduation, Golden received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Golden and Billie began their married life in Beaver, where he taught school for two years. They then moved to Salt Lake City, where he served as an inspector in charge of seed certification for the state Department of Agriculture. Golden then worked as assistant county agent in Salt Lake County and later as county agent of Beaver County.
Greater opportunities led him to Salem, Ore., where he worked as agronomist for the West Coast Beet Seed Co. Seven years later, he was asked to join the faculty at Utah Agricultural College. Here he assumed the responsibility for crop improvement and seed certification in the state. He held this position until he retired in 1975.
Golden served extensively in national and international programs. He acted as president of the International Crop Improvement Association for a period of time, and this involvement required frequent trips to nearly every state in the union. He also helped establish a clean-seed program in Bolivia, where he and Billie spent several weeks.
He was an avid fisherman and hunter all of his life. He was also an excellent vegetable gardener and shared the harvest with many neighbors and relatives.
Throughout his life, he was a dedicated and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served in many capacities, including Sunday School superintendent, gospel doctrine teacher, high priest group leader, ward clerk, counselor in two bishoprics, temple ordinance worker and home teacher. By example and precept, he instilled in his family the desire to love and serve others in a Christlike way. He also served a term as president of the PTA at Adams Elementary School.
He was an eyewitness of the difficult times brought on by the Great Depression. As a result he never went into debt for anything, but saved until he could pay cash for his cars and two fine homes.
Golden was a kind, gentle, generous and caring husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He lived a long and productive life. His Christlike example of goodness will stand as a reminder to all of his posterity of the true purpose of life. Although he will be greatly missed, there is an assurance and comfort that this parting is only temporary.
Golden is survived by his wife, Billie of Logan; a son, Noel (Carol) Stoker of Clovis, Calif.; two daughters, Joan (Michael) Madsen of Washington, D.C., and Jean (Brian) Thornley of Logan; 15 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mary Heiner of Roy.
He was preceded in death by his parents and eight of his brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 22 in the Logan 18th Ward Chapel, 502 E. 300 North, with Bishop Grant Collier conducting. Friends and family may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21 at the Allen- Hall Mortuary, 34 E. Center, and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the services at the Logan 18th Ward. Burial will be in the Logan Cemetery.
The family would like to thank all from Hospice and to Lynn Allen for their assistance and loving care.
https://www.hjnews.com/obituaries/golden-lyman-stoker/article_6466bb61-4da7-5727-a61e-07965da2cd53.html
Golden grew up on the family farm in Clearfiled, where he received his early education, graduating from Davis High School, where he was student body president and received the first annual Barnes Medal for the outstanding student athlete. He attended Utah Agricultural College where he received his bachelor/s and master/s degrees in agronomy. While at college he excelled in scholarship, obtaining memberships in Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta (honorary agricultural fraternity) and Scabbard and Blade (national military fraternity). He was also elected junior class president. Upon graduation, Golden received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Golden and Billie began their married life in Beaver, where he taught school for two years. They then moved to Salt Lake City, where he served as an inspector in charge of seed certification for the state Department of Agriculture. Golden then worked as assistant county agent in Salt Lake County and later as county agent of Beaver County.
Greater opportunities led him to Salem, Ore., where he worked as agronomist for the West Coast Beet Seed Co. Seven years later, he was asked to join the faculty at Utah Agricultural College. Here he assumed the responsibility for crop improvement and seed certification in the state. He held this position until he retired in 1975.
Golden served extensively in national and international programs. He acted as president of the International Crop Improvement Association for a period of time, and this involvement required frequent trips to nearly every state in the union. He also helped establish a clean-seed program in Bolivia, where he and Billie spent several weeks.
He was an avid fisherman and hunter all of his life. He was also an excellent vegetable gardener and shared the harvest with many neighbors and relatives.
Throughout his life, he was a dedicated and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served in many capacities, including Sunday School superintendent, gospel doctrine teacher, high priest group leader, ward clerk, counselor in two bishoprics, temple ordinance worker and home teacher. By example and precept, he instilled in his family the desire to love and serve others in a Christlike way. He also served a term as president of the PTA at Adams Elementary School.
He was an eyewitness of the difficult times brought on by the Great Depression. As a result he never went into debt for anything, but saved until he could pay cash for his cars and two fine homes.
Golden was a kind, gentle, generous and caring husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He lived a long and productive life. His Christlike example of goodness will stand as a reminder to all of his posterity of the true purpose of life. Although he will be greatly missed, there is an assurance and comfort that this parting is only temporary.
Golden is survived by his wife, Billie of Logan; a son, Noel (Carol) Stoker of Clovis, Calif.; two daughters, Joan (Michael) Madsen of Washington, D.C., and Jean (Brian) Thornley of Logan; 15 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mary Heiner of Roy.
He was preceded in death by his parents and eight of his brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 22 in the Logan 18th Ward Chapel, 502 E. 300 North, with Bishop Grant Collier conducting. Friends and family may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21 at the Allen- Hall Mortuary, 34 E. Center, and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the services at the Logan 18th Ward. Burial will be in the Logan Cemetery.
The family would like to thank all from Hospice and to Lynn Allen for their assistance and loving care.
https://www.hjnews.com/obituaries/golden-lyman-stoker/article_6466bb61-4da7-5727-a61e-07965da2cd53.html
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