Grant Frank Layton passed away on July 11, 2009 in Bountiful, Utah.
He was born July 22, 1916 to Frank Martin and Emma Diana Ellsworth Layton in Safford, Arizona.
At an early age he showed great interest in bridges, dams, and trains. He had a great love for music and played the coronet. These were his life-long passions. Later in life, together with his wife Jeneveve, he traveled the world to see bridges, dams and trains.
Grant served in the Eastern States Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1937 to 1939. During that missionary service he played the coronet in the first three Hill Cumorah pageants.
He married Jeneveve Eyring on June 12, 1941 in the Mesa Arizona Temple.
Jeneveve was, beyond words, his love and companion for 68 years. Grant graduated from Gila Junior College, then from Arizona State University, in accounting, in 1942. Grant and Jeneveve moved their family to Southern California in 1946. They raised their family in Downey, CA.
He devotedly supported his family of nine children. Grant always looked for opportunities to help the less fortunate. Grant and Jeneveve served in the Des Moines, Iowa mission from 1980 to 1981. Following that missionary service, they made Provo, Utah their home until his passing.
Grant is survived by his wife Jeneveve and eight of their nine children, Rebecca (Robert) Thompson, Linda (Fred) Rose, Ronald (Tamara) Layton, Kenneth (Kathleen) Layton, Ruth (Curtis) Huntzinger, Steven (Kristine) Layton, Catherine (Jeffery) Wagner and Chris (Beverly) Layton. Their youngest child, Mark Layton, died in infancy. They have treasured their 35 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and his four sisters, Emma Merrell, Thelma Hunsaker, Zella Sheley, and Maggie Barra.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2009 in the Grandview Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 1122 Grand Avenue, Provo. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary of Provo, 185 East Center Street, on Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and at the Ward Chapel on Friday from 10-10:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Interment will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Published in the Deseret News on 7/14/2009.
He was born July 22, 1916 to Frank Martin and Emma Diana Ellsworth Layton in Safford, Arizona.
At an early age he showed great interest in bridges, dams, and trains. He had a great love for music and played the coronet. These were his life-long passions. Later in life, together with his wife Jeneveve, he traveled the world to see bridges, dams and trains.
Grant served in the Eastern States Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1937 to 1939. During that missionary service he played the coronet in the first three Hill Cumorah pageants.
He married Jeneveve Eyring on June 12, 1941 in the Mesa Arizona Temple.
Jeneveve was, beyond words, his love and companion for 68 years. Grant graduated from Gila Junior College, then from Arizona State University, in accounting, in 1942. Grant and Jeneveve moved their family to Southern California in 1946. They raised their family in Downey, CA.
He devotedly supported his family of nine children. Grant always looked for opportunities to help the less fortunate. Grant and Jeneveve served in the Des Moines, Iowa mission from 1980 to 1981. Following that missionary service, they made Provo, Utah their home until his passing.
Grant is survived by his wife Jeneveve and eight of their nine children, Rebecca (Robert) Thompson, Linda (Fred) Rose, Ronald (Tamara) Layton, Kenneth (Kathleen) Layton, Ruth (Curtis) Huntzinger, Steven (Kristine) Layton, Catherine (Jeffery) Wagner and Chris (Beverly) Layton. Their youngest child, Mark Layton, died in infancy. They have treasured their 35 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and his four sisters, Emma Merrell, Thelma Hunsaker, Zella Sheley, and Maggie Barra.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2009 in the Grandview Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 1122 Grand Avenue, Provo. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary of Provo, 185 East Center Street, on Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and at the Ward Chapel on Friday from 10-10:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Interment will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Published in the Deseret News on 7/14/2009.
Grant Frank Layton passed away on July 11, 2009 in Bountiful, Utah.
He was born July 22, 1916 to Frank Martin and Emma Diana Ellsworth Layton in Safford, Arizona.
At an early age he showed great interest in bridges, dams, and trains. He had a great love for music and played the coronet. These were his life-long passions. Later in life, together with his wife Jeneveve, he traveled the world to see bridges, dams and trains.
Grant served in the Eastern States Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1937 to 1939. During that missionary service he played the coronet in the first three Hill Cumorah pageants.
He married Jeneveve Eyring on June 12, 1941 in the Mesa Arizona Temple.
Jeneveve was, beyond words, his love and companion for 68 years. Grant graduated from Gila Junior College, then from Arizona State University, in accounting, in 1942. Grant and Jeneveve moved their family to Southern California in 1946. They raised their family in Downey, CA.
He devotedly supported his family of nine children. Grant always looked for opportunities to help the less fortunate. Grant and Jeneveve served in the Des Moines, Iowa mission from 1980 to 1981. Following that missionary service, they made Provo, Utah their home until his passing.
Grant is survived by his wife Jeneveve and eight of their nine children, Rebecca (Robert) Thompson, Linda (Fred) Rose, Ronald (Tamara) Layton, Kenneth (Kathleen) Layton, Ruth (Curtis) Huntzinger, Steven (Kristine) Layton, Catherine (Jeffery) Wagner and Chris (Beverly) Layton. Their youngest child, Mark Layton, died in infancy. They have treasured their 35 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and his four sisters, Emma Merrell, Thelma Hunsaker, Zella Sheley, and Maggie Barra.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2009 in the Grandview Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 1122 Grand Avenue, Provo. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary of Provo, 185 East Center Street, on Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and at the Ward Chapel on Friday from 10-10:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Interment will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Published in the Deseret News on 7/14/2009.
He was born July 22, 1916 to Frank Martin and Emma Diana Ellsworth Layton in Safford, Arizona.
At an early age he showed great interest in bridges, dams, and trains. He had a great love for music and played the coronet. These were his life-long passions. Later in life, together with his wife Jeneveve, he traveled the world to see bridges, dams and trains.
Grant served in the Eastern States Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1937 to 1939. During that missionary service he played the coronet in the first three Hill Cumorah pageants.
He married Jeneveve Eyring on June 12, 1941 in the Mesa Arizona Temple.
Jeneveve was, beyond words, his love and companion for 68 years. Grant graduated from Gila Junior College, then from Arizona State University, in accounting, in 1942. Grant and Jeneveve moved their family to Southern California in 1946. They raised their family in Downey, CA.
He devotedly supported his family of nine children. Grant always looked for opportunities to help the less fortunate. Grant and Jeneveve served in the Des Moines, Iowa mission from 1980 to 1981. Following that missionary service, they made Provo, Utah their home until his passing.
Grant is survived by his wife Jeneveve and eight of their nine children, Rebecca (Robert) Thompson, Linda (Fred) Rose, Ronald (Tamara) Layton, Kenneth (Kathleen) Layton, Ruth (Curtis) Huntzinger, Steven (Kristine) Layton, Catherine (Jeffery) Wagner and Chris (Beverly) Layton. Their youngest child, Mark Layton, died in infancy. They have treasured their 35 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and his four sisters, Emma Merrell, Thelma Hunsaker, Zella Sheley, and Maggie Barra.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2009 in the Grandview Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 1122 Grand Avenue, Provo. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary of Provo, 185 East Center Street, on Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and at the Ward Chapel on Friday from 10-10:45 a.m. prior to the services.
Interment will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Published in the Deseret News on 7/14/2009.
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