Joseph Eldon Bateman, 89, passed away on October 18, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He resided at 1922 East Meadow Drive (6620 South) in Cottonwood Heights, Utah at the time of his death.
He was born at his home in Alpine, Utah on May 14, 1919 to William Allen Bateman and Sarah Eunice Russon.
At age 5, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he lived the remainder of his life. He graduated from South High School, where he met his sweetheart, Dorothy Jorgensen.
He told his father who was also his bishop that he was in love and wanted to ask her to marry him. His father convinced him to serve a mission first so he gave her his seminary pin and received her promise to wait for him. He served an honorable mission to the East Central States from 1939 to 1941.
Shortly after his return, he married Dot in the Salt Lake City Temple on March 18, 1941. Shortly after their oldest son Brent was born Joe enlisted in the Navy. He completed class A, B, and C courses in electrical engineering while in the Navy after which he was assigned to the aircraft carrier Saratoga.
He ended up serving nine months in Guam and was honorably discharged from the Navy. He had the honor of being the last enlisted sailor to depart the Saratoga before it was decommissioned.
Upon returning home, he expanded his auto mechanics skills. He owned and operated service stations by East High School and Westminster College for almost forty years where seventy-two hour work weeks were the norm.
He was an active High Priest of the Butler Fourth Ward, where he lived most of his adult life. He served in many positions including temple worker in the Jordan River Temple. One of his favorite callings was with his wife in the Missouri, St. Louis Mission for eighteen months.
He loved the restored Gospel and lived by its precepts his entire life. Together they had seven children, four of whom lived to adulthood.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, sons Brent (Lary Ann), Bob (Chris), and daughters Barbara (Lenny) Geertsen, and Bonnie Brijs, fifteen grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents, brother, Allen, sisters, Belva Walkenhorst, Donna Steadman, and Bonnie Stratton, daughters, Bette Lynn and Jan, Son-Barton Joseph.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in the Butler Fourth Ward Chapel, 6634 South Greenfield Way (1800 East). A viewing will be held on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, and from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on the morning of the funeral in the Butler Fourth Ward Building.
Interment will be in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 10/19/2008 - 10/21/2008.
He was born at his home in Alpine, Utah on May 14, 1919 to William Allen Bateman and Sarah Eunice Russon.
At age 5, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he lived the remainder of his life. He graduated from South High School, where he met his sweetheart, Dorothy Jorgensen.
He told his father who was also his bishop that he was in love and wanted to ask her to marry him. His father convinced him to serve a mission first so he gave her his seminary pin and received her promise to wait for him. He served an honorable mission to the East Central States from 1939 to 1941.
Shortly after his return, he married Dot in the Salt Lake City Temple on March 18, 1941. Shortly after their oldest son Brent was born Joe enlisted in the Navy. He completed class A, B, and C courses in electrical engineering while in the Navy after which he was assigned to the aircraft carrier Saratoga.
He ended up serving nine months in Guam and was honorably discharged from the Navy. He had the honor of being the last enlisted sailor to depart the Saratoga before it was decommissioned.
Upon returning home, he expanded his auto mechanics skills. He owned and operated service stations by East High School and Westminster College for almost forty years where seventy-two hour work weeks were the norm.
He was an active High Priest of the Butler Fourth Ward, where he lived most of his adult life. He served in many positions including temple worker in the Jordan River Temple. One of his favorite callings was with his wife in the Missouri, St. Louis Mission for eighteen months.
He loved the restored Gospel and lived by its precepts his entire life. Together they had seven children, four of whom lived to adulthood.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, sons Brent (Lary Ann), Bob (Chris), and daughters Barbara (Lenny) Geertsen, and Bonnie Brijs, fifteen grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents, brother, Allen, sisters, Belva Walkenhorst, Donna Steadman, and Bonnie Stratton, daughters, Bette Lynn and Jan, Son-Barton Joseph.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in the Butler Fourth Ward Chapel, 6634 South Greenfield Way (1800 East). A viewing will be held on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, and from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on the morning of the funeral in the Butler Fourth Ward Building.
Interment will be in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 10/19/2008 - 10/21/2008.
Joseph Eldon Bateman, 89, passed away on October 18, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He resided at 1922 East Meadow Drive (6620 South) in Cottonwood Heights, Utah at the time of his death.
He was born at his home in Alpine, Utah on May 14, 1919 to William Allen Bateman and Sarah Eunice Russon.
At age 5, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he lived the remainder of his life. He graduated from South High School, where he met his sweetheart, Dorothy Jorgensen.
He told his father who was also his bishop that he was in love and wanted to ask her to marry him. His father convinced him to serve a mission first so he gave her his seminary pin and received her promise to wait for him. He served an honorable mission to the East Central States from 1939 to 1941.
Shortly after his return, he married Dot in the Salt Lake City Temple on March 18, 1941. Shortly after their oldest son Brent was born Joe enlisted in the Navy. He completed class A, B, and C courses in electrical engineering while in the Navy after which he was assigned to the aircraft carrier Saratoga.
He ended up serving nine months in Guam and was honorably discharged from the Navy. He had the honor of being the last enlisted sailor to depart the Saratoga before it was decommissioned.
Upon returning home, he expanded his auto mechanics skills. He owned and operated service stations by East High School and Westminster College for almost forty years where seventy-two hour work weeks were the norm.
He was an active High Priest of the Butler Fourth Ward, where he lived most of his adult life. He served in many positions including temple worker in the Jordan River Temple. One of his favorite callings was with his wife in the Missouri, St. Louis Mission for eighteen months.
He loved the restored Gospel and lived by its precepts his entire life. Together they had seven children, four of whom lived to adulthood.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, sons Brent (Lary Ann), Bob (Chris), and daughters Barbara (Lenny) Geertsen, and Bonnie Brijs, fifteen grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents, brother, Allen, sisters, Belva Walkenhorst, Donna Steadman, and Bonnie Stratton, daughters, Bette Lynn and Jan, Son-Barton Joseph.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in the Butler Fourth Ward Chapel, 6634 South Greenfield Way (1800 East). A viewing will be held on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, and from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on the morning of the funeral in the Butler Fourth Ward Building.
Interment will be in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 10/19/2008 - 10/21/2008.
He was born at his home in Alpine, Utah on May 14, 1919 to William Allen Bateman and Sarah Eunice Russon.
At age 5, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he lived the remainder of his life. He graduated from South High School, where he met his sweetheart, Dorothy Jorgensen.
He told his father who was also his bishop that he was in love and wanted to ask her to marry him. His father convinced him to serve a mission first so he gave her his seminary pin and received her promise to wait for him. He served an honorable mission to the East Central States from 1939 to 1941.
Shortly after his return, he married Dot in the Salt Lake City Temple on March 18, 1941. Shortly after their oldest son Brent was born Joe enlisted in the Navy. He completed class A, B, and C courses in electrical engineering while in the Navy after which he was assigned to the aircraft carrier Saratoga.
He ended up serving nine months in Guam and was honorably discharged from the Navy. He had the honor of being the last enlisted sailor to depart the Saratoga before it was decommissioned.
Upon returning home, he expanded his auto mechanics skills. He owned and operated service stations by East High School and Westminster College for almost forty years where seventy-two hour work weeks were the norm.
He was an active High Priest of the Butler Fourth Ward, where he lived most of his adult life. He served in many positions including temple worker in the Jordan River Temple. One of his favorite callings was with his wife in the Missouri, St. Louis Mission for eighteen months.
He loved the restored Gospel and lived by its precepts his entire life. Together they had seven children, four of whom lived to adulthood.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, sons Brent (Lary Ann), Bob (Chris), and daughters Barbara (Lenny) Geertsen, and Bonnie Brijs, fifteen grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents, brother, Allen, sisters, Belva Walkenhorst, Donna Steadman, and Bonnie Stratton, daughters, Bette Lynn and Jan, Son-Barton Joseph.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in the Butler Fourth Ward Chapel, 6634 South Greenfield Way (1800 East). A viewing will be held on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, and from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on the morning of the funeral in the Butler Fourth Ward Building.
Interment will be in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 10/19/2008 - 10/21/2008.
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