Wanda Pearl Nielson Ericson, wonderful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend, returned to her Heavenly Father on October 24, 2014 from a brain hemorrhage.
Mom was born at home in Bluewater, New Mexico on December 27, 1926. She was one of seven children of Frihoff Peter and Marie Cluff Nielson.
Wanda attended school in Mesa, Arizona. She excelled in school and was a member of the National Honor Society and earned a cooking award.
Mom married Marshall G. Ericson, Jr. in the Mesa, Arizona Temple on September 4, 1944.
Wanda enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends. She was very talented in making and decorating cakes. She made each of her five children's wedding cakes with her own applesauce cake recipe. Each cake took hours and days for her to prepare and decorate. She was truly a professional.
Mom was an amazing seamstress. Her daughters were always proud to wear what she had sewn for them from school clothes to prom dresses.
Wanda enjoyed playing golf, camping, and traveling in their motor home with her husband and family. She spent countless hours doing genealogy which was one of her passions.
As a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served her Father in Heaven faithfully in many callings. In her later years, she accompanied her husband on an LDS mission to Bristol, England.
It is amazing to her children that even though she has had several benign tumors removed over the past thirty years, and cared for our father the last five years of his life while he suffered from dementia, that she has always had a positive, outgoing attitude.
She is an example of love and kindness to others.
Survived by children, Brent G., Wanda (John G.) Southerland, Sue Fors, Jackie (Don S.) Cannon, and Kim (Kent L.) Thomas; sister, Melba Cram; sister-in-law, Lori Nielson; twenty-two grandchildren; and thirty-two great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband, Marshall, and a grandson, Peter.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Brighton Third Ward Chapel, 2301 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South). A visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2014 at Cannon Mortuary, 2460 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South), and on the day of the services at the church from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Interment: Murray City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from October 26 to November 1, 2014.
Mom was born at home in Bluewater, New Mexico on December 27, 1926. She was one of seven children of Frihoff Peter and Marie Cluff Nielson.
Wanda attended school in Mesa, Arizona. She excelled in school and was a member of the National Honor Society and earned a cooking award.
Mom married Marshall G. Ericson, Jr. in the Mesa, Arizona Temple on September 4, 1944.
Wanda enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends. She was very talented in making and decorating cakes. She made each of her five children's wedding cakes with her own applesauce cake recipe. Each cake took hours and days for her to prepare and decorate. She was truly a professional.
Mom was an amazing seamstress. Her daughters were always proud to wear what she had sewn for them from school clothes to prom dresses.
Wanda enjoyed playing golf, camping, and traveling in their motor home with her husband and family. She spent countless hours doing genealogy which was one of her passions.
As a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served her Father in Heaven faithfully in many callings. In her later years, she accompanied her husband on an LDS mission to Bristol, England.
It is amazing to her children that even though she has had several benign tumors removed over the past thirty years, and cared for our father the last five years of his life while he suffered from dementia, that she has always had a positive, outgoing attitude.
She is an example of love and kindness to others.
Survived by children, Brent G., Wanda (John G.) Southerland, Sue Fors, Jackie (Don S.) Cannon, and Kim (Kent L.) Thomas; sister, Melba Cram; sister-in-law, Lori Nielson; twenty-two grandchildren; and thirty-two great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband, Marshall, and a grandson, Peter.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Brighton Third Ward Chapel, 2301 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South). A visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2014 at Cannon Mortuary, 2460 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South), and on the day of the services at the church from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Interment: Murray City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from October 26 to November 1, 2014.
Wanda Pearl Nielson Ericson, wonderful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend, returned to her Heavenly Father on October 24, 2014 from a brain hemorrhage.
Mom was born at home in Bluewater, New Mexico on December 27, 1926. She was one of seven children of Frihoff Peter and Marie Cluff Nielson.
Wanda attended school in Mesa, Arizona. She excelled in school and was a member of the National Honor Society and earned a cooking award.
Mom married Marshall G. Ericson, Jr. in the Mesa, Arizona Temple on September 4, 1944.
Wanda enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends. She was very talented in making and decorating cakes. She made each of her five children's wedding cakes with her own applesauce cake recipe. Each cake took hours and days for her to prepare and decorate. She was truly a professional.
Mom was an amazing seamstress. Her daughters were always proud to wear what she had sewn for them from school clothes to prom dresses.
Wanda enjoyed playing golf, camping, and traveling in their motor home with her husband and family. She spent countless hours doing genealogy which was one of her passions.
As a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served her Father in Heaven faithfully in many callings. In her later years, she accompanied her husband on an LDS mission to Bristol, England.
It is amazing to her children that even though she has had several benign tumors removed over the past thirty years, and cared for our father the last five years of his life while he suffered from dementia, that she has always had a positive, outgoing attitude.
She is an example of love and kindness to others.
Survived by children, Brent G., Wanda (John G.) Southerland, Sue Fors, Jackie (Don S.) Cannon, and Kim (Kent L.) Thomas; sister, Melba Cram; sister-in-law, Lori Nielson; twenty-two grandchildren; and thirty-two great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband, Marshall, and a grandson, Peter.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Brighton Third Ward Chapel, 2301 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South). A visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2014 at Cannon Mortuary, 2460 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South), and on the day of the services at the church from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Interment: Murray City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from October 26 to November 1, 2014.
Mom was born at home in Bluewater, New Mexico on December 27, 1926. She was one of seven children of Frihoff Peter and Marie Cluff Nielson.
Wanda attended school in Mesa, Arizona. She excelled in school and was a member of the National Honor Society and earned a cooking award.
Mom married Marshall G. Ericson, Jr. in the Mesa, Arizona Temple on September 4, 1944.
Wanda enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends. She was very talented in making and decorating cakes. She made each of her five children's wedding cakes with her own applesauce cake recipe. Each cake took hours and days for her to prepare and decorate. She was truly a professional.
Mom was an amazing seamstress. Her daughters were always proud to wear what she had sewn for them from school clothes to prom dresses.
Wanda enjoyed playing golf, camping, and traveling in their motor home with her husband and family. She spent countless hours doing genealogy which was one of her passions.
As a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served her Father in Heaven faithfully in many callings. In her later years, she accompanied her husband on an LDS mission to Bristol, England.
It is amazing to her children that even though she has had several benign tumors removed over the past thirty years, and cared for our father the last five years of his life while he suffered from dementia, that she has always had a positive, outgoing attitude.
She is an example of love and kindness to others.
Survived by children, Brent G., Wanda (John G.) Southerland, Sue Fors, Jackie (Don S.) Cannon, and Kim (Kent L.) Thomas; sister, Melba Cram; sister-in-law, Lori Nielson; twenty-two grandchildren; and thirty-two great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband, Marshall, and a grandson, Peter.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. in the Brighton Third Ward Chapel, 2301 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South). A visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2014 at Cannon Mortuary, 2460 East Bengal Boulevard (7600 South), and on the day of the services at the church from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Interment: Murray City Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune from October 26 to November 1, 2014.
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