After a full and service-filled life, Jeanne Michaelson Griffiths passed away peacefully in her home in Las Vegas on January 17, 2021. She was 92 years old.
Born July 6, 1928, Jeanne lost her father at age 3 and her mother was in ill-health. She grew up alternately in Leeds, Utah, and Afton, Wyoming, often in the care of loving extended family members for whom she was deeply grateful and with whom she remained close her entire life. She graduated from Ogden High School and Weber College. She loved English literature and counted a special visit to the top of the dome of the Utah state capitol building as a highlight of her teenage years.
Jeanne married Richard G. Griffiths in 1949 and was later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They raised five children while also caring for Jeanne’s mother for several years. In 1968, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Jeanne made her home for the next 52 years. She was a skilled seamstress, helping to keep the bills paid and her family clothed with her work. In 1970-72, the family resided in Okinawa, Japan, where she served as Relief Society President in the serviceman’s district. After her divorce and retirement from the Clark County School District, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1990-91 in Media, Pennsylvania, and was active in her church and in two camps of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She was a regular patron of the Utah Shakespeare Festival and has a seat dedicated to her in the new festival theater. In her later years, she read to the blind, served at countless charity functions and became a beloved friend and revered member of her community.
Both in conjunction with her membership in the Mormon History Association and to visit children whose careers had taken them overseas, Jeanne travelled to many foreign countries. She loved to learn of the local cultures and history of places as diverse as Denmark, England, Colombia, Mexico, Burma, Laos, Thailand and China. She marveled, “Who would ever have thought that a little girl from Leeds would have the chance to see places such as this!”
Although pleased and proud at the professional accomplishments of her children, she believed her greatest legacy was that her family stayed close and loved to be together. She was preceded to the spirit realm by her husband Dick Griffiths, her son James W. Griffiths, and her parents, Daniel Elias Michaelson and Ada McMullin, and countless caring relatives whose acquaintance she looked forward to renewing. Remaining on this side of the veil are her children, 13 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
Born July 6, 1928, Jeanne lost her father at age 3 and her mother was in ill-health. She grew up alternately in Leeds, Utah, and Afton, Wyoming, often in the care of loving extended family members for whom she was deeply grateful and with whom she remained close her entire life. She graduated from Ogden High School and Weber College. She loved English literature and counted a special visit to the top of the dome of the Utah state capitol building as a highlight of her teenage years.
Jeanne married Richard G. Griffiths in 1949 and was later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They raised five children while also caring for Jeanne’s mother for several years. In 1968, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Jeanne made her home for the next 52 years. She was a skilled seamstress, helping to keep the bills paid and her family clothed with her work. In 1970-72, the family resided in Okinawa, Japan, where she served as Relief Society President in the serviceman’s district. After her divorce and retirement from the Clark County School District, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1990-91 in Media, Pennsylvania, and was active in her church and in two camps of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She was a regular patron of the Utah Shakespeare Festival and has a seat dedicated to her in the new festival theater. In her later years, she read to the blind, served at countless charity functions and became a beloved friend and revered member of her community.
Both in conjunction with her membership in the Mormon History Association and to visit children whose careers had taken them overseas, Jeanne travelled to many foreign countries. She loved to learn of the local cultures and history of places as diverse as Denmark, England, Colombia, Mexico, Burma, Laos, Thailand and China. She marveled, “Who would ever have thought that a little girl from Leeds would have the chance to see places such as this!”
Although pleased and proud at the professional accomplishments of her children, she believed her greatest legacy was that her family stayed close and loved to be together. She was preceded to the spirit realm by her husband Dick Griffiths, her son James W. Griffiths, and her parents, Daniel Elias Michaelson and Ada McMullin, and countless caring relatives whose acquaintance she looked forward to renewing. Remaining on this side of the veil are her children, 13 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
After a full and service-filled life, Jeanne Michaelson Griffiths passed away peacefully in her home in Las Vegas on January 17, 2021. She was 92 years old.
Born July 6, 1928, Jeanne lost her father at age 3 and her mother was in ill-health. She grew up alternately in Leeds, Utah, and Afton, Wyoming, often in the care of loving extended family members for whom she was deeply grateful and with whom she remained close her entire life. She graduated from Ogden High School and Weber College. She loved English literature and counted a special visit to the top of the dome of the Utah state capitol building as a highlight of her teenage years.
Jeanne married Richard G. Griffiths in 1949 and was later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They raised five children while also caring for Jeanne’s mother for several years. In 1968, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Jeanne made her home for the next 52 years. She was a skilled seamstress, helping to keep the bills paid and her family clothed with her work. In 1970-72, the family resided in Okinawa, Japan, where she served as Relief Society President in the serviceman’s district. After her divorce and retirement from the Clark County School District, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1990-91 in Media, Pennsylvania, and was active in her church and in two camps of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She was a regular patron of the Utah Shakespeare Festival and has a seat dedicated to her in the new festival theater. In her later years, she read to the blind, served at countless charity functions and became a beloved friend and revered member of her community.
Both in conjunction with her membership in the Mormon History Association and to visit children whose careers had taken them overseas, Jeanne travelled to many foreign countries. She loved to learn of the local cultures and history of places as diverse as Denmark, England, Colombia, Mexico, Burma, Laos, Thailand and China. She marveled, “Who would ever have thought that a little girl from Leeds would have the chance to see places such as this!”
Although pleased and proud at the professional accomplishments of her children, she believed her greatest legacy was that her family stayed close and loved to be together. She was preceded to the spirit realm by her husband Dick Griffiths, her son James W. Griffiths, and her parents, Daniel Elias Michaelson and Ada McMullin, and countless caring relatives whose acquaintance she looked forward to renewing. Remaining on this side of the veil are her children, 13 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
Born July 6, 1928, Jeanne lost her father at age 3 and her mother was in ill-health. She grew up alternately in Leeds, Utah, and Afton, Wyoming, often in the care of loving extended family members for whom she was deeply grateful and with whom she remained close her entire life. She graduated from Ogden High School and Weber College. She loved English literature and counted a special visit to the top of the dome of the Utah state capitol building as a highlight of her teenage years.
Jeanne married Richard G. Griffiths in 1949 and was later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They raised five children while also caring for Jeanne’s mother for several years. In 1968, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Jeanne made her home for the next 52 years. She was a skilled seamstress, helping to keep the bills paid and her family clothed with her work. In 1970-72, the family resided in Okinawa, Japan, where she served as Relief Society President in the serviceman’s district. After her divorce and retirement from the Clark County School District, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1990-91 in Media, Pennsylvania, and was active in her church and in two camps of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She was a regular patron of the Utah Shakespeare Festival and has a seat dedicated to her in the new festival theater. In her later years, she read to the blind, served at countless charity functions and became a beloved friend and revered member of her community.
Both in conjunction with her membership in the Mormon History Association and to visit children whose careers had taken them overseas, Jeanne travelled to many foreign countries. She loved to learn of the local cultures and history of places as diverse as Denmark, England, Colombia, Mexico, Burma, Laos, Thailand and China. She marveled, “Who would ever have thought that a little girl from Leeds would have the chance to see places such as this!”
Although pleased and proud at the professional accomplishments of her children, she believed her greatest legacy was that her family stayed close and loved to be together. She was preceded to the spirit realm by her husband Dick Griffiths, her son James W. Griffiths, and her parents, Daniel Elias Michaelson and Ada McMullin, and countless caring relatives whose acquaintance she looked forward to renewing. Remaining on this side of the veil are her children, 13 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
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