Mary Brown Firmage Woodward died June 24, 2011.
The fourth of eight children, she was born August 8, 1916 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada to Hugh B. and Zina Card Brown.
The midwife was Mary's grandmother and daughter of Brigham Young, Zina Young Card Brown.
When Mary was four, the family moved to Lethbridge, Canada, where Hugh practiced law.
In 1927 the family moved again to Salt Lake City, where Mary graduated from South High. While attending BYU, she met Edwin Raddon Firmage. They were married October 24, 1934, in the Salt Lake Temple. At the time, Ed was working for J. C. Penney in Provo.
Ed's father, E. D. Firmage, had been a partner with Mr. Penney in Golden Rule Stores, which later became J. C. Penney Company, throughout the West and Midwest. E. D. Firmage and his sons, Ed and Bill, and daughter, Louise, formed Firmage's Department Store in Provo in 1935, the year of the birth of Ed and Mary's son, Edwin Brown Firmage. Two daughters, Judy and Myrtice (Marty), and another son, Dave, followed.
Edwin R. Firmage died April 4, 1986.
After Ed's death, Mary joined her son, Ed and his family in England, where Ed was teaching at Kent University. They traveled widely through England, Scotland, and Wales, visiting places where Ed had served as a Mormon missionary, and where Mary thereafter served her own mission.
Mary married Ralph Woodward November 12, 1988. Together they served a mission in Nauvoo, Ill.
An active member of the LDS Church, Mary served in the Relief Society and Primary as ward, stake and General Board member for many years. Civic responsibilities included the Utah Cancer Society and the State Board of Mental Health.
Mary wrote extensively, and recently published an award-winning biography, Four Zinas, that tells the story of four generations of her ancestors, her mother, Zina Card Brown, her grandmother, Zina Y. W. Card, her great-grandmother, Zina Diantha Huntington Smith Young, who was married to Joseph Smith and then to Brigham Young, and Zina Baker Huntington, whose father presided over the First Continental Congress of the United States of America.
Mary is survived by her son, Ed, and daughters, Judy Wolfgramm Moody (Merrill) and Mary Myrtice (Marty) Myers, by her sister Carol, sisters-in-law Louise Firmage Heal and Fay Firmage, and by grandchildren Edwin James Firmage (Carrol), Miriam Tate (David), Sarah Firmage, Zina Lewis (Bruce), Joseph, Jonathan and David Firmage, Raddon Wolfgramm, special granddaughter, Heidi Wolfgramm, and by Woodward grandchildren and great-grandchildren-in-law.
Special care in the last years was given by her son, Ed, and his mate, Virginia Pritchett Menlove, and by Heidi Wolfgramm, along with other family members.
Thanks to VistaCare Hospice and the staff of Courtyard at Jamestown.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 2, 2011 at the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, 185 East Center Street, Provo.
Friends may call at the mortuary Friday evening from 6 until 8 and Saturday an hour prior to services.
Interment, East Lawn Memorial Hills
Mary Brown Firmage Woodward died June 24, 2011.
The fourth of eight children, she was born August 8, 1916 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada to Hugh B. and Zina Card Brown.
The midwife was Mary's grandmother and daughter of Brigham Young, Zina Young Card Brown.
When Mary was four, the family moved to Lethbridge, Canada, where Hugh practiced law.
In 1927 the family moved again to Salt Lake City, where Mary graduated from South High. While attending BYU, she met Edwin Raddon Firmage. They were married October 24, 1934, in the Salt Lake Temple. At the time, Ed was working for J. C. Penney in Provo.
Ed's father, E. D. Firmage, had been a partner with Mr. Penney in Golden Rule Stores, which later became J. C. Penney Company, throughout the West and Midwest. E. D. Firmage and his sons, Ed and Bill, and daughter, Louise, formed Firmage's Department Store in Provo in 1935, the year of the birth of Ed and Mary's son, Edwin Brown Firmage. Two daughters, Judy and Myrtice (Marty), and another son, Dave, followed.
Edwin R. Firmage died April 4, 1986.
After Ed's death, Mary joined her son, Ed and his family in England, where Ed was teaching at Kent University. They traveled widely through England, Scotland, and Wales, visiting places where Ed had served as a Mormon missionary, and where Mary thereafter served her own mission.
Mary married Ralph Woodward November 12, 1988. Together they served a mission in Nauvoo, Ill.
An active member of the LDS Church, Mary served in the Relief Society and Primary as ward, stake and General Board member for many years. Civic responsibilities included the Utah Cancer Society and the State Board of Mental Health.
Mary wrote extensively, and recently published an award-winning biography, Four Zinas, that tells the story of four generations of her ancestors, her mother, Zina Card Brown, her grandmother, Zina Y. W. Card, her great-grandmother, Zina Diantha Huntington Smith Young, who was married to Joseph Smith and then to Brigham Young, and Zina Baker Huntington, whose father presided over the First Continental Congress of the United States of America.
Mary is survived by her son, Ed, and daughters, Judy Wolfgramm Moody (Merrill) and Mary Myrtice (Marty) Myers, by her sister Carol, sisters-in-law Louise Firmage Heal and Fay Firmage, and by grandchildren Edwin James Firmage (Carrol), Miriam Tate (David), Sarah Firmage, Zina Lewis (Bruce), Joseph, Jonathan and David Firmage, Raddon Wolfgramm, special granddaughter, Heidi Wolfgramm, and by Woodward grandchildren and great-grandchildren-in-law.
Special care in the last years was given by her son, Ed, and his mate, Virginia Pritchett Menlove, and by Heidi Wolfgramm, along with other family members.
Thanks to VistaCare Hospice and the staff of Courtyard at Jamestown.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 2, 2011 at the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, 185 East Center Street, Provo.
Friends may call at the mortuary Friday evening from 6 until 8 and Saturday an hour prior to services.
Interment, East Lawn Memorial Hills
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