Nancy Carol Barton Bradford
September 24, 1934 - February 19, 2017 (age 82)
Nancy Carol Barton Bradford was born September 24, 1934 to Lloyd Lional and Williamelia Frost Barton, in Monticello, UT, the fifth of eleven treasured children. She returned to the arms of her earthly and heavenly parents the night of February 19, 2017 at San Juan Regional Hospital in Farmington, NM, her earthly body overcome by sepsis and heart failure.
Nancy started grade school in the venerable Miss Bradshaw’s classroom and often told of the two Texas sisters she had for fifth and sixth grade who chewed tobacco and spit into their hankies. She played clarinet in the high school band, received the Outstanding Student Award in ninth grade, was art editor for the school paper, on the yearbook staff, and in the pep club.
She met Cleal Bradford—a Blanding boy—when he showed up at a Sadie Hawkin’s dance in Monticello, in April of 1950. Though Nancy had taken a date, she danced “many times” with Cleal. They began dating regularly and were engaged on her 16th birthday, marrying three weeks later, on October 12, 1950, in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Their 66years of love, service and devotion is an example to their posterity, which began with four sons and three daughters and has now grown to 48 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.
When Nancy was 12 years old, she was visiting relatives in Salt Lake City and while crossing a street she was hit by a car on her right hip. That injury would result in a hip surgery a year later and three subsequent hip replacements before the joint had to be removed altogether. She went from a pronounced limp to using a cane, to crutches to twenty years in a wheelchair, which became her only mode of transportation after her right leg was removed last year. However, her physical handicap never handicapped her zest for life; she loved parties and fixing meals and gathering her family around her. “Family” included foster children, foreign exchange students and lonely people in town who needed a place to go for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
A lifelong active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nancy loved the gospel and served faithfully in many church callings throughout her lifetime. She and her husband lived in Blanding for most of their married lives. They started the Patio Drive-in and were in a partnership forming the original owners of The Flower Shop. Nancy was very talented, creative and an excellent cook. She loved the color “clean.” She composed poetry, enjoyed drawing and painting, sewed clothing, drew up house plans, catered meals, and was well-known for the beautiful cakes she decorated. She also loved traveling. When her firstborn son was in high school she returned to school and graduated in the same ceremony as he did. Later in life, she took a few college classes. Her greatest accomplishment, besides raising her children and loving her grandchildren, was supporting her husband in his varied businesses and his many civic and church callings. The hospitality and meals enjoyed at her table by influential guests benefitted everything from education to health to water resources valuable to San Juan County.
Nancy is survived by her husband, Cleal; daughter, Terri (Tom Winder); son, Mark (Julie); daughter, Valorie (Jason Rampton); son, Andrew (Elena); daughter, Lisa (Ivan Carr); and son, Kelly (Cindy). She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers: Lloyd Lawrence, Silas, Bob, Stanley and Allen; her oldest son, Calvyn Boyd and his wife, Ramona; and three grandsons.
September 24, 1934 - February 19, 2017 (age 82)
Nancy Carol Barton Bradford was born September 24, 1934 to Lloyd Lional and Williamelia Frost Barton, in Monticello, UT, the fifth of eleven treasured children. She returned to the arms of her earthly and heavenly parents the night of February 19, 2017 at San Juan Regional Hospital in Farmington, NM, her earthly body overcome by sepsis and heart failure.
Nancy started grade school in the venerable Miss Bradshaw’s classroom and often told of the two Texas sisters she had for fifth and sixth grade who chewed tobacco and spit into their hankies. She played clarinet in the high school band, received the Outstanding Student Award in ninth grade, was art editor for the school paper, on the yearbook staff, and in the pep club.
She met Cleal Bradford—a Blanding boy—when he showed up at a Sadie Hawkin’s dance in Monticello, in April of 1950. Though Nancy had taken a date, she danced “many times” with Cleal. They began dating regularly and were engaged on her 16th birthday, marrying three weeks later, on October 12, 1950, in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Their 66years of love, service and devotion is an example to their posterity, which began with four sons and three daughters and has now grown to 48 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.
When Nancy was 12 years old, she was visiting relatives in Salt Lake City and while crossing a street she was hit by a car on her right hip. That injury would result in a hip surgery a year later and three subsequent hip replacements before the joint had to be removed altogether. She went from a pronounced limp to using a cane, to crutches to twenty years in a wheelchair, which became her only mode of transportation after her right leg was removed last year. However, her physical handicap never handicapped her zest for life; she loved parties and fixing meals and gathering her family around her. “Family” included foster children, foreign exchange students and lonely people in town who needed a place to go for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
A lifelong active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nancy loved the gospel and served faithfully in many church callings throughout her lifetime. She and her husband lived in Blanding for most of their married lives. They started the Patio Drive-in and were in a partnership forming the original owners of The Flower Shop. Nancy was very talented, creative and an excellent cook. She loved the color “clean.” She composed poetry, enjoyed drawing and painting, sewed clothing, drew up house plans, catered meals, and was well-known for the beautiful cakes she decorated. She also loved traveling. When her firstborn son was in high school she returned to school and graduated in the same ceremony as he did. Later in life, she took a few college classes. Her greatest accomplishment, besides raising her children and loving her grandchildren, was supporting her husband in his varied businesses and his many civic and church callings. The hospitality and meals enjoyed at her table by influential guests benefitted everything from education to health to water resources valuable to San Juan County.
Nancy is survived by her husband, Cleal; daughter, Terri (Tom Winder); son, Mark (Julie); daughter, Valorie (Jason Rampton); son, Andrew (Elena); daughter, Lisa (Ivan Carr); and son, Kelly (Cindy). She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers: Lloyd Lawrence, Silas, Bob, Stanley and Allen; her oldest son, Calvyn Boyd and his wife, Ramona; and three grandsons.
Nancy Carol Barton Bradford
September 24, 1934 - February 19, 2017 (age 82)
Nancy Carol Barton Bradford was born September 24, 1934 to Lloyd Lional and Williamelia Frost Barton, in Monticello, UT, the fifth of eleven treasured children. She returned to the arms of her earthly and heavenly parents the night of February 19, 2017 at San Juan Regional Hospital in Farmington, NM, her earthly body overcome by sepsis and heart failure.
Nancy started grade school in the venerable Miss Bradshaw’s classroom and often told of the two Texas sisters she had for fifth and sixth grade who chewed tobacco and spit into their hankies. She played clarinet in the high school band, received the Outstanding Student Award in ninth grade, was art editor for the school paper, on the yearbook staff, and in the pep club.
She met Cleal Bradford—a Blanding boy—when he showed up at a Sadie Hawkin’s dance in Monticello, in April of 1950. Though Nancy had taken a date, she danced “many times” with Cleal. They began dating regularly and were engaged on her 16th birthday, marrying three weeks later, on October 12, 1950, in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Their 66years of love, service and devotion is an example to their posterity, which began with four sons and three daughters and has now grown to 48 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.
When Nancy was 12 years old, she was visiting relatives in Salt Lake City and while crossing a street she was hit by a car on her right hip. That injury would result in a hip surgery a year later and three subsequent hip replacements before the joint had to be removed altogether. She went from a pronounced limp to using a cane, to crutches to twenty years in a wheelchair, which became her only mode of transportation after her right leg was removed last year. However, her physical handicap never handicapped her zest for life; she loved parties and fixing meals and gathering her family around her. “Family” included foster children, foreign exchange students and lonely people in town who needed a place to go for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
A lifelong active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nancy loved the gospel and served faithfully in many church callings throughout her lifetime. She and her husband lived in Blanding for most of their married lives. They started the Patio Drive-in and were in a partnership forming the original owners of The Flower Shop. Nancy was very talented, creative and an excellent cook. She loved the color “clean.” She composed poetry, enjoyed drawing and painting, sewed clothing, drew up house plans, catered meals, and was well-known for the beautiful cakes she decorated. She also loved traveling. When her firstborn son was in high school she returned to school and graduated in the same ceremony as he did. Later in life, she took a few college classes. Her greatest accomplishment, besides raising her children and loving her grandchildren, was supporting her husband in his varied businesses and his many civic and church callings. The hospitality and meals enjoyed at her table by influential guests benefitted everything from education to health to water resources valuable to San Juan County.
Nancy is survived by her husband, Cleal; daughter, Terri (Tom Winder); son, Mark (Julie); daughter, Valorie (Jason Rampton); son, Andrew (Elena); daughter, Lisa (Ivan Carr); and son, Kelly (Cindy). She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers: Lloyd Lawrence, Silas, Bob, Stanley and Allen; her oldest son, Calvyn Boyd and his wife, Ramona; and three grandsons.
September 24, 1934 - February 19, 2017 (age 82)
Nancy Carol Barton Bradford was born September 24, 1934 to Lloyd Lional and Williamelia Frost Barton, in Monticello, UT, the fifth of eleven treasured children. She returned to the arms of her earthly and heavenly parents the night of February 19, 2017 at San Juan Regional Hospital in Farmington, NM, her earthly body overcome by sepsis and heart failure.
Nancy started grade school in the venerable Miss Bradshaw’s classroom and often told of the two Texas sisters she had for fifth and sixth grade who chewed tobacco and spit into their hankies. She played clarinet in the high school band, received the Outstanding Student Award in ninth grade, was art editor for the school paper, on the yearbook staff, and in the pep club.
She met Cleal Bradford—a Blanding boy—when he showed up at a Sadie Hawkin’s dance in Monticello, in April of 1950. Though Nancy had taken a date, she danced “many times” with Cleal. They began dating regularly and were engaged on her 16th birthday, marrying three weeks later, on October 12, 1950, in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Their 66years of love, service and devotion is an example to their posterity, which began with four sons and three daughters and has now grown to 48 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.
When Nancy was 12 years old, she was visiting relatives in Salt Lake City and while crossing a street she was hit by a car on her right hip. That injury would result in a hip surgery a year later and three subsequent hip replacements before the joint had to be removed altogether. She went from a pronounced limp to using a cane, to crutches to twenty years in a wheelchair, which became her only mode of transportation after her right leg was removed last year. However, her physical handicap never handicapped her zest for life; she loved parties and fixing meals and gathering her family around her. “Family” included foster children, foreign exchange students and lonely people in town who needed a place to go for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
A lifelong active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nancy loved the gospel and served faithfully in many church callings throughout her lifetime. She and her husband lived in Blanding for most of their married lives. They started the Patio Drive-in and were in a partnership forming the original owners of The Flower Shop. Nancy was very talented, creative and an excellent cook. She loved the color “clean.” She composed poetry, enjoyed drawing and painting, sewed clothing, drew up house plans, catered meals, and was well-known for the beautiful cakes she decorated. She also loved traveling. When her firstborn son was in high school she returned to school and graduated in the same ceremony as he did. Later in life, she took a few college classes. Her greatest accomplishment, besides raising her children and loving her grandchildren, was supporting her husband in his varied businesses and his many civic and church callings. The hospitality and meals enjoyed at her table by influential guests benefitted everything from education to health to water resources valuable to San Juan County.
Nancy is survived by her husband, Cleal; daughter, Terri (Tom Winder); son, Mark (Julie); daughter, Valorie (Jason Rampton); son, Andrew (Elena); daughter, Lisa (Ivan Carr); and son, Kelly (Cindy). She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers: Lloyd Lawrence, Silas, Bob, Stanley and Allen; her oldest son, Calvyn Boyd and his wife, Ramona; and three grandsons.
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