Pamela Dee Garfield Smith
August 17, 1968 - May 31, 2022 (age 53)
Pamela Dee Garfield Smith returned to her heavenly home on May 31, 2022 at the age of 53 after a long-fought battle with breast cancer.
Pam was born on August 17, 1968, in Cedar City, Utah to Bud & LaRee Garfield. She had a wonderful childhood on the farm in Enoch. She was lovingly known as "Scooter" in her early years because she didn't learn to walk until she was almost 2. Instead, she would get around by scooting on her bum. Pam loved running through the fields, sliding down the ditch, and watching her dad call the sheep in with a call only he could do. Some of her most entertaining stories involved being chased by chickens, which is probably where her intense fear of birds came from. Growing up on the farm is where she learned the value of hard work, which served her well throughout her life.
Pam and Mike Smith of Beaver, Utah married on June 22, 1995. They were later sealed in the St. George Temple on October 3, 1997. Together, they blended their family and raised their three children, Krista, Braden and Brecia. As a family, they loved going out to eat, game nights and riding four-wheelers. Pam was the best mom! She always had a lesson to teach or a one-liner to make us laugh. She raised her children to put family first and follow their Savior.
Pam always had a love of learning. She was a great student and very involved. She graduated from Cedar High School in 1986. After high school, she attended Southern Utah State College where she earned a degree in Elementary Education, following in her father's footsteps. She later earned her Master of Education degree and reading endorsement from Southern Utah University.
Pam began her teaching career at E. Valley where she taught a combined 3rd and 4th grade class. She spent a few years teaching 6th grade at Red Rock Intermediate, and then Cross Hollows Intermediate. She then began teaching 4th grade at Fiddler's Elementary, which is where she spent the rest of her teaching career, with a few years spent as the reading specialist. Pam is known as Mrs. Smith to many. She is remembered for her incredible science lessons and read-alouds of her favorite books. She also taught her students life lessons like having grit and being a bucket filler. Mrs. Smith changed many lives and loved every single one of her students. She had a gift of making everyone feel loved, welcomed, valued and accepted in her classroom. She retired after teaching for 29 years.
Pam was a friend to everyone. When she made a friend, she held onto them for life. We will always remember her love of birthday dinners, Bunco Thursdays, Brad's lunches and conversations that felt like they were never going to end. Pam was hard to take anywhere because she always had someone to talk to! She made her friends part of our family, and we are all blessed by the many friendships she had through the years.
Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2018. She had countless chemo and radiation treatments, and several surgeries. Through the love, knowledge and care of her doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, and with her own grit and determination, she had a really hard, but really incredible 4-year fight. She spent most of her time during those years in her craft room making the most beautiful quilts for so many that she loved. Pam's happy place was sitting at her sewing machine. During her years fighting cancer, making memories with her grandchildren was her priority. She did everything she could to make individual, core memories with each of them. She took us on trips to Disneyland, the aquarium and the mountains. MeeMaw or Wadi, as her grandchildren called her, always put on her best for her grandchildren, no matter how tired, sick or in pain she was. The little individual moments she had with them will be what they remember her by. With her grandkids she loved reading books, watching them play video games, sharing her Diet Coke, watching them play sports, giving back scratches, playing games, making treats and Sunday Dinner, watching pimple popping, playing playdoh and FaceTiming daily.
Pam had a very strong testimony of the Gospel and her Savior Jesus Christ. She was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as primary president, young women president, and relief society president, but her very favorite calling was primary music leader. She loved teaching primary children the gospel through song. Her faith was her guide through her life, especially these past few years. She took on the mantra of FAITH OVER FEAR, and truly lived that each day.
We want to thank each of her incredible doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, Cedar Ridge Family Medicine, Wound Clinic, Deseret Pain Specialists, Cedar Dermatology and Ethan at Sun Tree Hospice. The care she received at each of these places was above and beyond anything we could have expected or asked for. She loved her nurses and doctors and truly thought of them as family.
Pam is survived by her loving husband, Mike, her children Krista (Brock) Rasmussen of Salina, Braden (Kennedy) Davis of Cedar City, Brecia (Mark) Scott of Springville and her grandchildren, Kash, Ky and Kase Rasmussen, Averie and Beckett Davis, and Nellie, Jaxon and Maren Scott. She is also survived by her mother LaRee Garfield, her 5 siblings, Michael, Lauri, Tyler, Shawn and Zach, and her dear friend and aunt Myra Mosdell. She was the proud aunt and great aunt of many nieces and nephews, whom she loved so much. She is preceded in death by her father Bud Garfield and her grandparents.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:00 am at the Canyon View Stake Center (1985 N. Main St., Cedar City, UT). Viewings will be held Friday, June 3, 2022, from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 N. 300 W. Cedar City, UT) and Saturday morning from 9:30-10:30 am at the church. Interment will be at the Cedar City Cemetery, under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. www.mortuary.org
August 17, 1968 - May 31, 2022 (age 53)
Pamela Dee Garfield Smith returned to her heavenly home on May 31, 2022 at the age of 53 after a long-fought battle with breast cancer.
Pam was born on August 17, 1968, in Cedar City, Utah to Bud & LaRee Garfield. She had a wonderful childhood on the farm in Enoch. She was lovingly known as "Scooter" in her early years because she didn't learn to walk until she was almost 2. Instead, she would get around by scooting on her bum. Pam loved running through the fields, sliding down the ditch, and watching her dad call the sheep in with a call only he could do. Some of her most entertaining stories involved being chased by chickens, which is probably where her intense fear of birds came from. Growing up on the farm is where she learned the value of hard work, which served her well throughout her life.
Pam and Mike Smith of Beaver, Utah married on June 22, 1995. They were later sealed in the St. George Temple on October 3, 1997. Together, they blended their family and raised their three children, Krista, Braden and Brecia. As a family, they loved going out to eat, game nights and riding four-wheelers. Pam was the best mom! She always had a lesson to teach or a one-liner to make us laugh. She raised her children to put family first and follow their Savior.
Pam always had a love of learning. She was a great student and very involved. She graduated from Cedar High School in 1986. After high school, she attended Southern Utah State College where she earned a degree in Elementary Education, following in her father's footsteps. She later earned her Master of Education degree and reading endorsement from Southern Utah University.
Pam began her teaching career at E. Valley where she taught a combined 3rd and 4th grade class. She spent a few years teaching 6th grade at Red Rock Intermediate, and then Cross Hollows Intermediate. She then began teaching 4th grade at Fiddler's Elementary, which is where she spent the rest of her teaching career, with a few years spent as the reading specialist. Pam is known as Mrs. Smith to many. She is remembered for her incredible science lessons and read-alouds of her favorite books. She also taught her students life lessons like having grit and being a bucket filler. Mrs. Smith changed many lives and loved every single one of her students. She had a gift of making everyone feel loved, welcomed, valued and accepted in her classroom. She retired after teaching for 29 years.
Pam was a friend to everyone. When she made a friend, she held onto them for life. We will always remember her love of birthday dinners, Bunco Thursdays, Brad's lunches and conversations that felt like they were never going to end. Pam was hard to take anywhere because she always had someone to talk to! She made her friends part of our family, and we are all blessed by the many friendships she had through the years.
Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2018. She had countless chemo and radiation treatments, and several surgeries. Through the love, knowledge and care of her doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, and with her own grit and determination, she had a really hard, but really incredible 4-year fight. She spent most of her time during those years in her craft room making the most beautiful quilts for so many that she loved. Pam's happy place was sitting at her sewing machine. During her years fighting cancer, making memories with her grandchildren was her priority. She did everything she could to make individual, core memories with each of them. She took us on trips to Disneyland, the aquarium and the mountains. MeeMaw or Wadi, as her grandchildren called her, always put on her best for her grandchildren, no matter how tired, sick or in pain she was. The little individual moments she had with them will be what they remember her by. With her grandkids she loved reading books, watching them play video games, sharing her Diet Coke, watching them play sports, giving back scratches, playing games, making treats and Sunday Dinner, watching pimple popping, playing playdoh and FaceTiming daily.
Pam had a very strong testimony of the Gospel and her Savior Jesus Christ. She was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as primary president, young women president, and relief society president, but her very favorite calling was primary music leader. She loved teaching primary children the gospel through song. Her faith was her guide through her life, especially these past few years. She took on the mantra of FAITH OVER FEAR, and truly lived that each day.
We want to thank each of her incredible doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, Cedar Ridge Family Medicine, Wound Clinic, Deseret Pain Specialists, Cedar Dermatology and Ethan at Sun Tree Hospice. The care she received at each of these places was above and beyond anything we could have expected or asked for. She loved her nurses and doctors and truly thought of them as family.
Pam is survived by her loving husband, Mike, her children Krista (Brock) Rasmussen of Salina, Braden (Kennedy) Davis of Cedar City, Brecia (Mark) Scott of Springville and her grandchildren, Kash, Ky and Kase Rasmussen, Averie and Beckett Davis, and Nellie, Jaxon and Maren Scott. She is also survived by her mother LaRee Garfield, her 5 siblings, Michael, Lauri, Tyler, Shawn and Zach, and her dear friend and aunt Myra Mosdell. She was the proud aunt and great aunt of many nieces and nephews, whom she loved so much. She is preceded in death by her father Bud Garfield and her grandparents.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:00 am at the Canyon View Stake Center (1985 N. Main St., Cedar City, UT). Viewings will be held Friday, June 3, 2022, from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 N. 300 W. Cedar City, UT) and Saturday morning from 9:30-10:30 am at the church. Interment will be at the Cedar City Cemetery, under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. www.mortuary.org
Pamela Dee Garfield Smith
August 17, 1968 - May 31, 2022 (age 53)
Pamela Dee Garfield Smith returned to her heavenly home on May 31, 2022 at the age of 53 after a long-fought battle with breast cancer.
Pam was born on August 17, 1968, in Cedar City, Utah to Bud & LaRee Garfield. She had a wonderful childhood on the farm in Enoch. She was lovingly known as "Scooter" in her early years because she didn't learn to walk until she was almost 2. Instead, she would get around by scooting on her bum. Pam loved running through the fields, sliding down the ditch, and watching her dad call the sheep in with a call only he could do. Some of her most entertaining stories involved being chased by chickens, which is probably where her intense fear of birds came from. Growing up on the farm is where she learned the value of hard work, which served her well throughout her life.
Pam and Mike Smith of Beaver, Utah married on June 22, 1995. They were later sealed in the St. George Temple on October 3, 1997. Together, they blended their family and raised their three children, Krista, Braden and Brecia. As a family, they loved going out to eat, game nights and riding four-wheelers. Pam was the best mom! She always had a lesson to teach or a one-liner to make us laugh. She raised her children to put family first and follow their Savior.
Pam always had a love of learning. She was a great student and very involved. She graduated from Cedar High School in 1986. After high school, she attended Southern Utah State College where she earned a degree in Elementary Education, following in her father's footsteps. She later earned her Master of Education degree and reading endorsement from Southern Utah University.
Pam began her teaching career at E. Valley where she taught a combined 3rd and 4th grade class. She spent a few years teaching 6th grade at Red Rock Intermediate, and then Cross Hollows Intermediate. She then began teaching 4th grade at Fiddler's Elementary, which is where she spent the rest of her teaching career, with a few years spent as the reading specialist. Pam is known as Mrs. Smith to many. She is remembered for her incredible science lessons and read-alouds of her favorite books. She also taught her students life lessons like having grit and being a bucket filler. Mrs. Smith changed many lives and loved every single one of her students. She had a gift of making everyone feel loved, welcomed, valued and accepted in her classroom. She retired after teaching for 29 years.
Pam was a friend to everyone. When she made a friend, she held onto them for life. We will always remember her love of birthday dinners, Bunco Thursdays, Brad's lunches and conversations that felt like they were never going to end. Pam was hard to take anywhere because she always had someone to talk to! She made her friends part of our family, and we are all blessed by the many friendships she had through the years.
Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2018. She had countless chemo and radiation treatments, and several surgeries. Through the love, knowledge and care of her doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, and with her own grit and determination, she had a really hard, but really incredible 4-year fight. She spent most of her time during those years in her craft room making the most beautiful quilts for so many that she loved. Pam's happy place was sitting at her sewing machine. During her years fighting cancer, making memories with her grandchildren was her priority. She did everything she could to make individual, core memories with each of them. She took us on trips to Disneyland, the aquarium and the mountains. MeeMaw or Wadi, as her grandchildren called her, always put on her best for her grandchildren, no matter how tired, sick or in pain she was. The little individual moments she had with them will be what they remember her by. With her grandkids she loved reading books, watching them play video games, sharing her Diet Coke, watching them play sports, giving back scratches, playing games, making treats and Sunday Dinner, watching pimple popping, playing playdoh and FaceTiming daily.
Pam had a very strong testimony of the Gospel and her Savior Jesus Christ. She was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as primary president, young women president, and relief society president, but her very favorite calling was primary music leader. She loved teaching primary children the gospel through song. Her faith was her guide through her life, especially these past few years. She took on the mantra of FAITH OVER FEAR, and truly lived that each day.
We want to thank each of her incredible doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, Cedar Ridge Family Medicine, Wound Clinic, Deseret Pain Specialists, Cedar Dermatology and Ethan at Sun Tree Hospice. The care she received at each of these places was above and beyond anything we could have expected or asked for. She loved her nurses and doctors and truly thought of them as family.
Pam is survived by her loving husband, Mike, her children Krista (Brock) Rasmussen of Salina, Braden (Kennedy) Davis of Cedar City, Brecia (Mark) Scott of Springville and her grandchildren, Kash, Ky and Kase Rasmussen, Averie and Beckett Davis, and Nellie, Jaxon and Maren Scott. She is also survived by her mother LaRee Garfield, her 5 siblings, Michael, Lauri, Tyler, Shawn and Zach, and her dear friend and aunt Myra Mosdell. She was the proud aunt and great aunt of many nieces and nephews, whom she loved so much. She is preceded in death by her father Bud Garfield and her grandparents.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:00 am at the Canyon View Stake Center (1985 N. Main St., Cedar City, UT). Viewings will be held Friday, June 3, 2022, from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 N. 300 W. Cedar City, UT) and Saturday morning from 9:30-10:30 am at the church. Interment will be at the Cedar City Cemetery, under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. www.mortuary.org
August 17, 1968 - May 31, 2022 (age 53)
Pamela Dee Garfield Smith returned to her heavenly home on May 31, 2022 at the age of 53 after a long-fought battle with breast cancer.
Pam was born on August 17, 1968, in Cedar City, Utah to Bud & LaRee Garfield. She had a wonderful childhood on the farm in Enoch. She was lovingly known as "Scooter" in her early years because she didn't learn to walk until she was almost 2. Instead, she would get around by scooting on her bum. Pam loved running through the fields, sliding down the ditch, and watching her dad call the sheep in with a call only he could do. Some of her most entertaining stories involved being chased by chickens, which is probably where her intense fear of birds came from. Growing up on the farm is where she learned the value of hard work, which served her well throughout her life.
Pam and Mike Smith of Beaver, Utah married on June 22, 1995. They were later sealed in the St. George Temple on October 3, 1997. Together, they blended their family and raised their three children, Krista, Braden and Brecia. As a family, they loved going out to eat, game nights and riding four-wheelers. Pam was the best mom! She always had a lesson to teach or a one-liner to make us laugh. She raised her children to put family first and follow their Savior.
Pam always had a love of learning. She was a great student and very involved. She graduated from Cedar High School in 1986. After high school, she attended Southern Utah State College where she earned a degree in Elementary Education, following in her father's footsteps. She later earned her Master of Education degree and reading endorsement from Southern Utah University.
Pam began her teaching career at E. Valley where she taught a combined 3rd and 4th grade class. She spent a few years teaching 6th grade at Red Rock Intermediate, and then Cross Hollows Intermediate. She then began teaching 4th grade at Fiddler's Elementary, which is where she spent the rest of her teaching career, with a few years spent as the reading specialist. Pam is known as Mrs. Smith to many. She is remembered for her incredible science lessons and read-alouds of her favorite books. She also taught her students life lessons like having grit and being a bucket filler. Mrs. Smith changed many lives and loved every single one of her students. She had a gift of making everyone feel loved, welcomed, valued and accepted in her classroom. She retired after teaching for 29 years.
Pam was a friend to everyone. When she made a friend, she held onto them for life. We will always remember her love of birthday dinners, Bunco Thursdays, Brad's lunches and conversations that felt like they were never going to end. Pam was hard to take anywhere because she always had someone to talk to! She made her friends part of our family, and we are all blessed by the many friendships she had through the years.
Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2018. She had countless chemo and radiation treatments, and several surgeries. Through the love, knowledge and care of her doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, and with her own grit and determination, she had a really hard, but really incredible 4-year fight. She spent most of her time during those years in her craft room making the most beautiful quilts for so many that she loved. Pam's happy place was sitting at her sewing machine. During her years fighting cancer, making memories with her grandchildren was her priority. She did everything she could to make individual, core memories with each of them. She took us on trips to Disneyland, the aquarium and the mountains. MeeMaw or Wadi, as her grandchildren called her, always put on her best for her grandchildren, no matter how tired, sick or in pain she was. The little individual moments she had with them will be what they remember her by. With her grandkids she loved reading books, watching them play video games, sharing her Diet Coke, watching them play sports, giving back scratches, playing games, making treats and Sunday Dinner, watching pimple popping, playing playdoh and FaceTiming daily.
Pam had a very strong testimony of the Gospel and her Savior Jesus Christ. She was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as primary president, young women president, and relief society president, but her very favorite calling was primary music leader. She loved teaching primary children the gospel through song. Her faith was her guide through her life, especially these past few years. She took on the mantra of FAITH OVER FEAR, and truly lived that each day.
We want to thank each of her incredible doctors and nurses at the Cedar City Cancer Center, Cedar Ridge Family Medicine, Wound Clinic, Deseret Pain Specialists, Cedar Dermatology and Ethan at Sun Tree Hospice. The care she received at each of these places was above and beyond anything we could have expected or asked for. She loved her nurses and doctors and truly thought of them as family.
Pam is survived by her loving husband, Mike, her children Krista (Brock) Rasmussen of Salina, Braden (Kennedy) Davis of Cedar City, Brecia (Mark) Scott of Springville and her grandchildren, Kash, Ky and Kase Rasmussen, Averie and Beckett Davis, and Nellie, Jaxon and Maren Scott. She is also survived by her mother LaRee Garfield, her 5 siblings, Michael, Lauri, Tyler, Shawn and Zach, and her dear friend and aunt Myra Mosdell. She was the proud aunt and great aunt of many nieces and nephews, whom she loved so much. She is preceded in death by her father Bud Garfield and her grandparents.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:00 am at the Canyon View Stake Center (1985 N. Main St., Cedar City, UT). Viewings will be held Friday, June 3, 2022, from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 N. 300 W. Cedar City, UT) and Saturday morning from 9:30-10:30 am at the church. Interment will be at the Cedar City Cemetery, under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. www.mortuary.org
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