Harvey Emmett Wright was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and humble, hardworking servant of the Lord. He passed away peacefully in his home in Tooele, Utah, at the age of 86 after a 15-year battle with cancer. He often referred to Tooele as “God’s Country.” He grew up in Tooele in Huck Finn fashion, trapping coyotes, tanning the skins of coyotes, hunting, fishing, exploring and camping. As a youth, he worked at Caldwell Drugstore stocking shelves, at the bowling alley setting up pins for five cents a lane, and at the Tooele Smelter Zinc plant after high school. As an adult he worked with the youth baseball program, as Boy Scout cub master, and served three terms on the Tooele City Council between 1966 to 1984. Prior to serving on the Council, he was assigned to the City Charter Committee and was instrumental in changing Tooele City from a city manager format to mayor and city council format. Harvey also served in many church callings for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He began working for Jacobsen Construction in 1952 as a carpenter and advanced to a foreman, superintendent, project manager, and vice president of operations. His first project was building storage igloos on the Tooele Army Depot. He built several testing facilities at the Dugway Proving Grounds. He was involved in the building of the Dugway High School gymnasium, the Dave Johnson Power Plant located east of Glen Rock, Wyoming, the LDS Church Underground Parking Garage, the Royal Hotel in Provo, the Holiday Telephone Building, the Temple View Theater, the various remodels of ZCMI, the University of Utah Special Events Center (Jon M. Huntsman Special Events Center), the Central Utah Jordan Water Treatment Plant Renovation, the addition to the Hotel Utah (Joseph Smith Building), the Orem Utah Water Treatment Plant, the Salt Lake City International Airport concourses A and B, the Salt Lake City/County Building renovation and seismic retrofit and the DMAD dam project on the Sevier River to name a few. During the exterior restoration of the Salt Lake Temple, he received an assignment from President Gordon B. Hinckley to locate the cornerstone that had been hidden during the construction of the temple. Harvey and President Hinckley referred to it as the Record Stone. After much study, prayer and hard innovative work, he was successful in locating the stone and retrieving the artifacts. The crowning jewel in Harvey’s lifetime of building was directing the construction of the LDS Conference Center, completed in April 2000. The family’s favorite story of that project was about President Gordon B. Hinckley telling Harvey that he wanted the building complete and ready for the 2000 April Conference. Harvey said, “That date is unrealistic. Winters are hard here and construction will be slow, and we don’t even have any drawings yet.” President Hinckley replied, “Harvey, you worry about the construction, and I’ll take care of the weather.” The request was met by the April 2000 conference following two very mild winters and despite Salt Lake City’s historic tornado ripping through the building site. Harvey had a great love and desire to serve. After the construction of the Conference Center was completed, he served as a service missionary twice working with the building mangers of the Conference Center to develop a full set of building drawings for the building for any future need and training church officials on the building’s operations. Harvey also instructed them in how to gain access to some difficult areas that needed frequent observation. Harvey was a master of his work, sought perfection by recognizing the importance of tending to the details, and was a great teacher of the trade. He took difficult challenges and turned them into something that all who worked with him could understand. He was honored by his peers in the construction industry for his lifelong service when the Associated General Contractors of America awarded him the Eric Ryburg Award in 2004. He was named Superintendent of the Year by this same organization in 1980, and was also presented with the rare and prestigious Service to the Industry Award in 1998. His humor was highly developed and he taught many lessons with it. He was known as a strong, creative master of his work. His children were the recipients of learning the skills of the construction trade as they assisted Harvey in the building of their own family homes and other family building projects. His sons worked by his side on several major Jacobsen Construction projects. He loved the Savior Jesus Christ and loved his family dearly. He was always there to provide help and guidance. Among his other great loves were hunting and fishing, homemade strawberry ice cream and BYU sports! Harvey was born July 4, 1929, in American Fork, Utah, to Emmett William Wright and Catherine Adeline “Addie” Hunter. He was the firstborn of three children. Harvey married his high school sweetheart Connie Mae Edwards on June 2, 1948. They were sealed for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple on March 15, 1950. They are the parents of three children. Harvey is survived by his wife Connie and their three children and their spouses: John and Karma Wright of Stansbury Park, Utah, Terry and Dori Wright of Pine Canyon, Utah, and Cathy and Brian Jarvis of Orem, Utah. He is also survived by ten grandchildren (Austin Wright, Adam Wright, Lincoln Wright, Jasmine Wright, Erin Wells, Tori Hill, Hana Lucas-Wright, Jesi Thomas, Michael Jarvis, Michelle Jarvis). Harvey and Connie have 16 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephew who will miss him dearly. He is preceded in death by his parents Emmett and Adeline, his sister Beth Vowles and his brother Richard Wright. We are grateful to the Utah Cancer Specialists who cared for him, especially oncologists Dr. Scott Samuelson and Dr. Bruce Bolonesi. We are also grateful to the many friends and family that have shown their kindness and offered their help during his illness. A viewing will be held at Tate Mortuary (110 S Main St., Tooele, UT) on Friday, Feb. 5 from 6-8 p.m. and on Saturday, Feb. 6 from 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. prior to funeral services. Funeral services will be held on Feb. 6, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. at the Tooele South Stake Center located at 1025 Southwest Drive (approximately 1000 S. 650 West), Tooele, UT. If you wish, you may make a donation to the Huntsman Cancer Institute in lieu of flowers