Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
December 18, 2006
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert
6/12/52 ~ 12/16/06
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert slipped away Saturday, December 16, 2006 from the agonizing ravages of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic CNS chemical hypersensitivity. For her, it's a new horizon, "a white beach - and beyond - a far green country under a swift sunrise" - an indomitable spirit no longer encumbered by a devastated body.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Karl H. Kleinert (West Jordan); mother, Ruth Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); sister, Gina Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); brothers, Andre Zivkovic (Boise, Idaho), David Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); adoptive sisters, Margaret Turley (Salt Lake City), and Louise Neale (Phoenix); 10 nieces and nephews; and one great-niece. Predeceased by her father.
Deanna was born June 12, 1952 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; the family moved west where she spent her formative years in Malad, Idaho. A school chum and lifelong friend recently reminisced about halcyon summer days when "we cracked our tennis rackets with a gusto to rival Chris Evert Lloyd and held our breath performing mad General Lee jumps in your folk's Ford Galaxy!"
Deanna graduated from Malad High School and later attended Brigham Young University, majoring in German and European Studies. Deanna had a passion for life and a veritable spirit of adventure. Age 19 would find her (while studying abroad) with her trusty backpack, traversing Europe, from the ruins of ancient Corinth to the fjords of Norway, marching past reviewing stands in Prague on May Day, or savoring blood oranges picked in orchards under a hot, Tuscan sun.
Following graduation from BYU, she accepted a position with the Administrative headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in Frankfurt, Germany, first for the Real Estate Division and later with the European Legal Counsel. Thereafter, worked as a bilingual Partner Secretary for Price Waterhouse (Frankfurt, Germany).
Deanna met and married the love of her life, Karl Kleinert, in Frankfurt in 1976; ceremony solemnized in the Swiss Temple. The young couple left Europe in 1979, settling in Salt Lake City where she worked as a legal assistant for several law firms over the next 20 years. She took a medical retirement from her last position with Dewsnup, King & Olsen in 1999 when Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue escalated degenerative injuries from an accident some years previously.
Deanna served enthusiastically in many LDS Church positions over the years with the Primary, Relief Society, and Young Women's organizations. She especially enjoyed serving as Stake Young Adult Vice-president for the Kaiserslautern Servicemen Stake and helping to organize the first Young Adult European Conference in Berchtesgaden, Germany in 1975 presided over by (the late) Elder David B. Haight.
From an early age Deanna enjoyed opera, theater, writing and especially loved art, architecture, literature, history, and Celtic music. She was fascinated by the vestiges of ancient cultures and civilizations, taking every opportunity to travel, study and explore. Her husband recalls a glorious spring sojourn to Cornwall where Deanna was in her element, poking about Iron Age hill forts and haunting the "du Maurier" countryside, then moving on to Dorset to revel in the splendor of Hardy's "Wessex". An avid Anglophile, Deanna attended the University of Cambridge International Summer School programs nearly every summer for the past 10 years, focusing primarily on Medieval Studies.
Talented and artistic, Deanna delighted in applying a creative hand in many mediums including gourmet cooking, sketching, sewing, tapestry, prose, lace-making, interior decorating, exquisite one-of-a-kind collector baby dolls, and luxurious homemade soap and natural skin care products.
Always somewhat of a crusader at heart, Deanna was sensitive to social and legal injustice and devoted countless hours of volunteer service to the Utah Citizens Alliance, a consumer advocate organization dedicated to principles of citizen safety and public accountability.
We mourn the untimely loss of our cherished wife, sister, daughter, and friend - her keen intellect, wicked sense of humor, engaging smile, infectious enthusiasm, gracious charm, generous heart, loyal friendship, and perhaps most of all - unfulfilled dreams. If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell, Some a gentle sigh That shakes from life's brief crown Only a rose leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell and the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? (Anon. 17th century)
Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 10 a.m. in the West Jordan Mountain View Stake Center, 2901 West 9000 South, West Jordan. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to the Utah Citizens Alliance, 645 South 200 East, Suite 103, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.
December 18, 2006
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert
6/12/52 ~ 12/16/06
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert slipped away Saturday, December 16, 2006 from the agonizing ravages of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic CNS chemical hypersensitivity. For her, it's a new horizon, "a white beach - and beyond - a far green country under a swift sunrise" - an indomitable spirit no longer encumbered by a devastated body.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Karl H. Kleinert (West Jordan); mother, Ruth Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); sister, Gina Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); brothers, Andre Zivkovic (Boise, Idaho), David Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); adoptive sisters, Margaret Turley (Salt Lake City), and Louise Neale (Phoenix); 10 nieces and nephews; and one great-niece. Predeceased by her father.
Deanna was born June 12, 1952 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; the family moved west where she spent her formative years in Malad, Idaho. A school chum and lifelong friend recently reminisced about halcyon summer days when "we cracked our tennis rackets with a gusto to rival Chris Evert Lloyd and held our breath performing mad General Lee jumps in your folk's Ford Galaxy!"
Deanna graduated from Malad High School and later attended Brigham Young University, majoring in German and European Studies. Deanna had a passion for life and a veritable spirit of adventure. Age 19 would find her (while studying abroad) with her trusty backpack, traversing Europe, from the ruins of ancient Corinth to the fjords of Norway, marching past reviewing stands in Prague on May Day, or savoring blood oranges picked in orchards under a hot, Tuscan sun.
Following graduation from BYU, she accepted a position with the Administrative headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in Frankfurt, Germany, first for the Real Estate Division and later with the European Legal Counsel. Thereafter, worked as a bilingual Partner Secretary for Price Waterhouse (Frankfurt, Germany).
Deanna met and married the love of her life, Karl Kleinert, in Frankfurt in 1976; ceremony solemnized in the Swiss Temple. The young couple left Europe in 1979, settling in Salt Lake City where she worked as a legal assistant for several law firms over the next 20 years. She took a medical retirement from her last position with Dewsnup, King & Olsen in 1999 when Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue escalated degenerative injuries from an accident some years previously.
Deanna served enthusiastically in many LDS Church positions over the years with the Primary, Relief Society, and Young Women's organizations. She especially enjoyed serving as Stake Young Adult Vice-president for the Kaiserslautern Servicemen Stake and helping to organize the first Young Adult European Conference in Berchtesgaden, Germany in 1975 presided over by (the late) Elder David B. Haight.
From an early age Deanna enjoyed opera, theater, writing and especially loved art, architecture, literature, history, and Celtic music. She was fascinated by the vestiges of ancient cultures and civilizations, taking every opportunity to travel, study and explore. Her husband recalls a glorious spring sojourn to Cornwall where Deanna was in her element, poking about Iron Age hill forts and haunting the "du Maurier" countryside, then moving on to Dorset to revel in the splendor of Hardy's "Wessex". An avid Anglophile, Deanna attended the University of Cambridge International Summer School programs nearly every summer for the past 10 years, focusing primarily on Medieval Studies.
Talented and artistic, Deanna delighted in applying a creative hand in many mediums including gourmet cooking, sketching, sewing, tapestry, prose, lace-making, interior decorating, exquisite one-of-a-kind collector baby dolls, and luxurious homemade soap and natural skin care products.
Always somewhat of a crusader at heart, Deanna was sensitive to social and legal injustice and devoted countless hours of volunteer service to the Utah Citizens Alliance, a consumer advocate organization dedicated to principles of citizen safety and public accountability.
We mourn the untimely loss of our cherished wife, sister, daughter, and friend - her keen intellect, wicked sense of humor, engaging smile, infectious enthusiasm, gracious charm, generous heart, loyal friendship, and perhaps most of all - unfulfilled dreams. If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell, Some a gentle sigh That shakes from life's brief crown Only a rose leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell and the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? (Anon. 17th century)
Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 10 a.m. in the West Jordan Mountain View Stake Center, 2901 West 9000 South, West Jordan. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to the Utah Citizens Alliance, 645 South 200 East, Suite 103, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
December 18, 2006
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert
6/12/52 ~ 12/16/06
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert slipped away Saturday, December 16, 2006 from the agonizing ravages of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic CNS chemical hypersensitivity. For her, it's a new horizon, "a white beach - and beyond - a far green country under a swift sunrise" - an indomitable spirit no longer encumbered by a devastated body.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Karl H. Kleinert (West Jordan); mother, Ruth Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); sister, Gina Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); brothers, Andre Zivkovic (Boise, Idaho), David Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); adoptive sisters, Margaret Turley (Salt Lake City), and Louise Neale (Phoenix); 10 nieces and nephews; and one great-niece. Predeceased by her father.
Deanna was born June 12, 1952 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; the family moved west where she spent her formative years in Malad, Idaho. A school chum and lifelong friend recently reminisced about halcyon summer days when "we cracked our tennis rackets with a gusto to rival Chris Evert Lloyd and held our breath performing mad General Lee jumps in your folk's Ford Galaxy!"
Deanna graduated from Malad High School and later attended Brigham Young University, majoring in German and European Studies. Deanna had a passion for life and a veritable spirit of adventure. Age 19 would find her (while studying abroad) with her trusty backpack, traversing Europe, from the ruins of ancient Corinth to the fjords of Norway, marching past reviewing stands in Prague on May Day, or savoring blood oranges picked in orchards under a hot, Tuscan sun.
Following graduation from BYU, she accepted a position with the Administrative headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in Frankfurt, Germany, first for the Real Estate Division and later with the European Legal Counsel. Thereafter, worked as a bilingual Partner Secretary for Price Waterhouse (Frankfurt, Germany).
Deanna met and married the love of her life, Karl Kleinert, in Frankfurt in 1976; ceremony solemnized in the Swiss Temple. The young couple left Europe in 1979, settling in Salt Lake City where she worked as a legal assistant for several law firms over the next 20 years. She took a medical retirement from her last position with Dewsnup, King & Olsen in 1999 when Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue escalated degenerative injuries from an accident some years previously.
Deanna served enthusiastically in many LDS Church positions over the years with the Primary, Relief Society, and Young Women's organizations. She especially enjoyed serving as Stake Young Adult Vice-president for the Kaiserslautern Servicemen Stake and helping to organize the first Young Adult European Conference in Berchtesgaden, Germany in 1975 presided over by (the late) Elder David B. Haight.
From an early age Deanna enjoyed opera, theater, writing and especially loved art, architecture, literature, history, and Celtic music. She was fascinated by the vestiges of ancient cultures and civilizations, taking every opportunity to travel, study and explore. Her husband recalls a glorious spring sojourn to Cornwall where Deanna was in her element, poking about Iron Age hill forts and haunting the "du Maurier" countryside, then moving on to Dorset to revel in the splendor of Hardy's "Wessex". An avid Anglophile, Deanna attended the University of Cambridge International Summer School programs nearly every summer for the past 10 years, focusing primarily on Medieval Studies.
Talented and artistic, Deanna delighted in applying a creative hand in many mediums including gourmet cooking, sketching, sewing, tapestry, prose, lace-making, interior decorating, exquisite one-of-a-kind collector baby dolls, and luxurious homemade soap and natural skin care products.
Always somewhat of a crusader at heart, Deanna was sensitive to social and legal injustice and devoted countless hours of volunteer service to the Utah Citizens Alliance, a consumer advocate organization dedicated to principles of citizen safety and public accountability.
We mourn the untimely loss of our cherished wife, sister, daughter, and friend - her keen intellect, wicked sense of humor, engaging smile, infectious enthusiasm, gracious charm, generous heart, loyal friendship, and perhaps most of all - unfulfilled dreams. If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell, Some a gentle sigh That shakes from life's brief crown Only a rose leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell and the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? (Anon. 17th century)
Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 10 a.m. in the West Jordan Mountain View Stake Center, 2901 West 9000 South, West Jordan. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to the Utah Citizens Alliance, 645 South 200 East, Suite 103, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.
December 18, 2006
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert
6/12/52 ~ 12/16/06
Deanna Zivkovic Kleinert slipped away Saturday, December 16, 2006 from the agonizing ravages of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic CNS chemical hypersensitivity. For her, it's a new horizon, "a white beach - and beyond - a far green country under a swift sunrise" - an indomitable spirit no longer encumbered by a devastated body.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Karl H. Kleinert (West Jordan); mother, Ruth Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); sister, Gina Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); brothers, Andre Zivkovic (Boise, Idaho), David Zivkovic (Salt Lake City); adoptive sisters, Margaret Turley (Salt Lake City), and Louise Neale (Phoenix); 10 nieces and nephews; and one great-niece. Predeceased by her father.
Deanna was born June 12, 1952 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; the family moved west where she spent her formative years in Malad, Idaho. A school chum and lifelong friend recently reminisced about halcyon summer days when "we cracked our tennis rackets with a gusto to rival Chris Evert Lloyd and held our breath performing mad General Lee jumps in your folk's Ford Galaxy!"
Deanna graduated from Malad High School and later attended Brigham Young University, majoring in German and European Studies. Deanna had a passion for life and a veritable spirit of adventure. Age 19 would find her (while studying abroad) with her trusty backpack, traversing Europe, from the ruins of ancient Corinth to the fjords of Norway, marching past reviewing stands in Prague on May Day, or savoring blood oranges picked in orchards under a hot, Tuscan sun.
Following graduation from BYU, she accepted a position with the Administrative headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in Frankfurt, Germany, first for the Real Estate Division and later with the European Legal Counsel. Thereafter, worked as a bilingual Partner Secretary for Price Waterhouse (Frankfurt, Germany).
Deanna met and married the love of her life, Karl Kleinert, in Frankfurt in 1976; ceremony solemnized in the Swiss Temple. The young couple left Europe in 1979, settling in Salt Lake City where she worked as a legal assistant for several law firms over the next 20 years. She took a medical retirement from her last position with Dewsnup, King & Olsen in 1999 when Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue escalated degenerative injuries from an accident some years previously.
Deanna served enthusiastically in many LDS Church positions over the years with the Primary, Relief Society, and Young Women's organizations. She especially enjoyed serving as Stake Young Adult Vice-president for the Kaiserslautern Servicemen Stake and helping to organize the first Young Adult European Conference in Berchtesgaden, Germany in 1975 presided over by (the late) Elder David B. Haight.
From an early age Deanna enjoyed opera, theater, writing and especially loved art, architecture, literature, history, and Celtic music. She was fascinated by the vestiges of ancient cultures and civilizations, taking every opportunity to travel, study and explore. Her husband recalls a glorious spring sojourn to Cornwall where Deanna was in her element, poking about Iron Age hill forts and haunting the "du Maurier" countryside, then moving on to Dorset to revel in the splendor of Hardy's "Wessex". An avid Anglophile, Deanna attended the University of Cambridge International Summer School programs nearly every summer for the past 10 years, focusing primarily on Medieval Studies.
Talented and artistic, Deanna delighted in applying a creative hand in many mediums including gourmet cooking, sketching, sewing, tapestry, prose, lace-making, interior decorating, exquisite one-of-a-kind collector baby dolls, and luxurious homemade soap and natural skin care products.
Always somewhat of a crusader at heart, Deanna was sensitive to social and legal injustice and devoted countless hours of volunteer service to the Utah Citizens Alliance, a consumer advocate organization dedicated to principles of citizen safety and public accountability.
We mourn the untimely loss of our cherished wife, sister, daughter, and friend - her keen intellect, wicked sense of humor, engaging smile, infectious enthusiasm, gracious charm, generous heart, loyal friendship, and perhaps most of all - unfulfilled dreams. If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell, Some a gentle sigh That shakes from life's brief crown Only a rose leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell and the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? (Anon. 17th century)
Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 10 a.m. in the West Jordan Mountain View Stake Center, 2901 West 9000 South, West Jordan. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to the Utah Citizens Alliance, 645 South 200 East, Suite 103, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.
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