Jody Leyshon Harris
1927 - 2017
Early Life: Jody was born August 13, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the clock in the city and county building struck noon - the very same time, the same birthing facility, with the same doctor as her mother, Helen Clair "Muzzy" Birrell Leyshon, was born 25 years earlier, on the same date.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: As a student at Provo High School in the mid-1940s, “Bogie” (as she was then called) was a high-scoring forward for the Geneva Steelets. Sponsored and coached by her father, the late J. Baxter Leyshon, former Provo Bureau Chief of the Salt Lake Tribune. The Steelets played in Idaho, California, Arizona and Hawaii. After winning Regional, they went to Hawaii and won Nationals. On December 26, 1949, Jody married Kenneth E. Harris, a Highway Patrolman in Provo, Utah; the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were the parents of two beautiful daughters: Pamela Ruth and Shaun Lynn. Twenty years later, she was a player-coach of a group of young LDS women from the Timp Stake who won the AAU B-Division basketball championship in Salt Lake City. As the wife of a highway patrolman, Jody turned her attention to pistol shooting and was a member of a winning highway patrol women’s pistol team for 18 years. During this time, she won the coveted “high aggregate” 22 pistol twice and numerous plaques. Jody also won the NRA Women’s State Championship many times and numerous master and expert-class trophies. In 1989, she turned her competitive spirit to horseshoes. She was encouraged to join the national horseshoe pitching association. Starting in “E” class, Jody quickly worked her way up to B Class, winning championships in each class, finishing as the second best pitcher in the “B” Class. But “A” Class was tough, pitted against the top men in the state. But men knew they’d been in a battle. After the Senior Olympics in St. George, Utah, she retired. Turning to her favorite pastime, shooting pool at the senior center in Pleasant Grove, had given her another way to compete. Jody Leyshon Harris passed away Monday, October 16, 2017, in her home in Lindon, Utah, after a short illness.
Services: Lindon 3rd Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Berg Mortuary
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Berg Mortuary | October 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1927 - 2017
Early Life: Jody was born August 13, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the clock in the city and county building struck noon - the very same time, the same birthing facility, with the same doctor as her mother, Helen Clair "Muzzy" Birrell Leyshon, was born 25 years earlier, on the same date.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: As a student at Provo High School in the mid-1940s, “Bogie” (as she was then called) was a high-scoring forward for the Geneva Steelets. Sponsored and coached by her father, the late J. Baxter Leyshon, former Provo Bureau Chief of the Salt Lake Tribune. The Steelets played in Idaho, California, Arizona and Hawaii. After winning Regional, they went to Hawaii and won Nationals. On December 26, 1949, Jody married Kenneth E. Harris, a Highway Patrolman in Provo, Utah; the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were the parents of two beautiful daughters: Pamela Ruth and Shaun Lynn. Twenty years later, she was a player-coach of a group of young LDS women from the Timp Stake who won the AAU B-Division basketball championship in Salt Lake City. As the wife of a highway patrolman, Jody turned her attention to pistol shooting and was a member of a winning highway patrol women’s pistol team for 18 years. During this time, she won the coveted “high aggregate” 22 pistol twice and numerous plaques. Jody also won the NRA Women’s State Championship many times and numerous master and expert-class trophies. In 1989, she turned her competitive spirit to horseshoes. She was encouraged to join the national horseshoe pitching association. Starting in “E” class, Jody quickly worked her way up to B Class, winning championships in each class, finishing as the second best pitcher in the “B” Class. But “A” Class was tough, pitted against the top men in the state. But men knew they’d been in a battle. After the Senior Olympics in St. George, Utah, she retired. Turning to her favorite pastime, shooting pool at the senior center in Pleasant Grove, had given her another way to compete. Jody Leyshon Harris passed away Monday, October 16, 2017, in her home in Lindon, Utah, after a short illness.
Services: Lindon 3rd Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Berg Mortuary
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Berg Mortuary | October 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Jody Leyshon Harris
1927 - 2017
Early Life: Jody was born August 13, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the clock in the city and county building struck noon - the very same time, the same birthing facility, with the same doctor as her mother, Helen Clair "Muzzy" Birrell Leyshon, was born 25 years earlier, on the same date.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: As a student at Provo High School in the mid-1940s, “Bogie” (as she was then called) was a high-scoring forward for the Geneva Steelets. Sponsored and coached by her father, the late J. Baxter Leyshon, former Provo Bureau Chief of the Salt Lake Tribune. The Steelets played in Idaho, California, Arizona and Hawaii. After winning Regional, they went to Hawaii and won Nationals. On December 26, 1949, Jody married Kenneth E. Harris, a Highway Patrolman in Provo, Utah; the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were the parents of two beautiful daughters: Pamela Ruth and Shaun Lynn. Twenty years later, she was a player-coach of a group of young LDS women from the Timp Stake who won the AAU B-Division basketball championship in Salt Lake City. As the wife of a highway patrolman, Jody turned her attention to pistol shooting and was a member of a winning highway patrol women’s pistol team for 18 years. During this time, she won the coveted “high aggregate” 22 pistol twice and numerous plaques. Jody also won the NRA Women’s State Championship many times and numerous master and expert-class trophies. In 1989, she turned her competitive spirit to horseshoes. She was encouraged to join the national horseshoe pitching association. Starting in “E” class, Jody quickly worked her way up to B Class, winning championships in each class, finishing as the second best pitcher in the “B” Class. But “A” Class was tough, pitted against the top men in the state. But men knew they’d been in a battle. After the Senior Olympics in St. George, Utah, she retired. Turning to her favorite pastime, shooting pool at the senior center in Pleasant Grove, had given her another way to compete. Jody Leyshon Harris passed away Monday, October 16, 2017, in her home in Lindon, Utah, after a short illness.
Services: Lindon 3rd Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Berg Mortuary
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Berg Mortuary | October 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1927 - 2017
Early Life: Jody was born August 13, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the clock in the city and county building struck noon - the very same time, the same birthing facility, with the same doctor as her mother, Helen Clair "Muzzy" Birrell Leyshon, was born 25 years earlier, on the same date.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: As a student at Provo High School in the mid-1940s, “Bogie” (as she was then called) was a high-scoring forward for the Geneva Steelets. Sponsored and coached by her father, the late J. Baxter Leyshon, former Provo Bureau Chief of the Salt Lake Tribune. The Steelets played in Idaho, California, Arizona and Hawaii. After winning Regional, they went to Hawaii and won Nationals. On December 26, 1949, Jody married Kenneth E. Harris, a Highway Patrolman in Provo, Utah; the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were the parents of two beautiful daughters: Pamela Ruth and Shaun Lynn. Twenty years later, she was a player-coach of a group of young LDS women from the Timp Stake who won the AAU B-Division basketball championship in Salt Lake City. As the wife of a highway patrolman, Jody turned her attention to pistol shooting and was a member of a winning highway patrol women’s pistol team for 18 years. During this time, she won the coveted “high aggregate” 22 pistol twice and numerous plaques. Jody also won the NRA Women’s State Championship many times and numerous master and expert-class trophies. In 1989, she turned her competitive spirit to horseshoes. She was encouraged to join the national horseshoe pitching association. Starting in “E” class, Jody quickly worked her way up to B Class, winning championships in each class, finishing as the second best pitcher in the “B” Class. But “A” Class was tough, pitted against the top men in the state. But men knew they’d been in a battle. After the Senior Olympics in St. George, Utah, she retired. Turning to her favorite pastime, shooting pool at the senior center in Pleasant Grove, had given her another way to compete. Jody Leyshon Harris passed away Monday, October 16, 2017, in her home in Lindon, Utah, after a short illness.
Services: Lindon 3rd Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Berg Mortuary
Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Berg Mortuary | October 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
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