Owen Wallace Burnham, 86, died on 19 May 2009 at Apple Tree Assisted Living Center in Kaysville, Utah.
He was born 3 February 1923 in Blanding, Utah to Wallace Alvin Burnham and Emma Marietta Rogers Burnham.
He was born the month of the Posey Indian War, the last Indian War, in San Juan County.
Owen was a graduate of San Juan High School, where he also was a basketball star. His Utah State University education was interrupted by three years of service in the U.S. Army as a Paratrooper, where he served in Italy, parachuted into Southern France in preparation for D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and served in the occupation forces in Berlin.
He attended a semester at Edinburgh University before returning to the victory parade up 5th Avenue in New York. After the war he served for many years in the Utah National Guard. He was proud and grateful to have served his beloved country. He was quiet, kind, thoughtful, and devoted to his wife Colleen.
He also had a world-class, although dry sense of humor. He married Colleen Redd in the Logan Temple 9 June 1947, completed his education at Utah State University, and then earned a graduate degree in City and Regional Planning from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was the Ogden City Planner for some 18 years, and Assistant Planning Director for the City and County of Denver in 1955-1956. He then returned to the Ogden Planner position. After retiring from Ogden City he was a planner for the State of Utah in the Department of Natural Resources. Owen was a master gardener and loved sharing the fruits of his labors. Gardeners are optimists, and so was Owen.
His children are Dr. Bruce (Gayla), Debra, Roger (Marcia Leatham), Connie (Rob) White, Scott, David (Kelley), Arlene (Paul) Taylor, Richard, deceased (Jill) and Melissa (Neil) Prator; 20 fabulous grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was so proud of them all.
Owen loved the LDS Gospel, was a High Priest in the Canyon Hollows Ward, Ogden Stake, and served in many callings, especially in YMMIA, Elder's Quorum President, Sunday School, High Council, and was a Gospel Doctrine teacher for many years.
He was a volunteer in the Real Estate Department of the LDS Church. He and Colleen filled a Service Mission in Laie, Hawaii, where he worked as a planner for the Church property management company, Hawaii Reserve, Inc.
He and Colleen served as Stake Family History Consultants in the Ogden Stake for many years, and as long time members of a sealing group in the Ogden Temple.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2009 in the Canyon Hollows Ward Chapel, 1550 Rushton Street, Ogden. Friends may call on Friday, May 22, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, and on Saturday at the Church from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.
Interment will be in Myers Evergreen Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 5/21/2009 - 5/22/2009.
He was born 3 February 1923 in Blanding, Utah to Wallace Alvin Burnham and Emma Marietta Rogers Burnham.
He was born the month of the Posey Indian War, the last Indian War, in San Juan County.
Owen was a graduate of San Juan High School, where he also was a basketball star. His Utah State University education was interrupted by three years of service in the U.S. Army as a Paratrooper, where he served in Italy, parachuted into Southern France in preparation for D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and served in the occupation forces in Berlin.
He attended a semester at Edinburgh University before returning to the victory parade up 5th Avenue in New York. After the war he served for many years in the Utah National Guard. He was proud and grateful to have served his beloved country. He was quiet, kind, thoughtful, and devoted to his wife Colleen.
He also had a world-class, although dry sense of humor. He married Colleen Redd in the Logan Temple 9 June 1947, completed his education at Utah State University, and then earned a graduate degree in City and Regional Planning from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was the Ogden City Planner for some 18 years, and Assistant Planning Director for the City and County of Denver in 1955-1956. He then returned to the Ogden Planner position. After retiring from Ogden City he was a planner for the State of Utah in the Department of Natural Resources. Owen was a master gardener and loved sharing the fruits of his labors. Gardeners are optimists, and so was Owen.
His children are Dr. Bruce (Gayla), Debra, Roger (Marcia Leatham), Connie (Rob) White, Scott, David (Kelley), Arlene (Paul) Taylor, Richard, deceased (Jill) and Melissa (Neil) Prator; 20 fabulous grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was so proud of them all.
Owen loved the LDS Gospel, was a High Priest in the Canyon Hollows Ward, Ogden Stake, and served in many callings, especially in YMMIA, Elder's Quorum President, Sunday School, High Council, and was a Gospel Doctrine teacher for many years.
He was a volunteer in the Real Estate Department of the LDS Church. He and Colleen filled a Service Mission in Laie, Hawaii, where he worked as a planner for the Church property management company, Hawaii Reserve, Inc.
He and Colleen served as Stake Family History Consultants in the Ogden Stake for many years, and as long time members of a sealing group in the Ogden Temple.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2009 in the Canyon Hollows Ward Chapel, 1550 Rushton Street, Ogden. Friends may call on Friday, May 22, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, and on Saturday at the Church from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.
Interment will be in Myers Evergreen Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 5/21/2009 - 5/22/2009.
Owen Wallace Burnham, 86, died on 19 May 2009 at Apple Tree Assisted Living Center in Kaysville, Utah.
He was born 3 February 1923 in Blanding, Utah to Wallace Alvin Burnham and Emma Marietta Rogers Burnham.
He was born the month of the Posey Indian War, the last Indian War, in San Juan County.
Owen was a graduate of San Juan High School, where he also was a basketball star. His Utah State University education was interrupted by three years of service in the U.S. Army as a Paratrooper, where he served in Italy, parachuted into Southern France in preparation for D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and served in the occupation forces in Berlin.
He attended a semester at Edinburgh University before returning to the victory parade up 5th Avenue in New York. After the war he served for many years in the Utah National Guard. He was proud and grateful to have served his beloved country. He was quiet, kind, thoughtful, and devoted to his wife Colleen.
He also had a world-class, although dry sense of humor. He married Colleen Redd in the Logan Temple 9 June 1947, completed his education at Utah State University, and then earned a graduate degree in City and Regional Planning from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was the Ogden City Planner for some 18 years, and Assistant Planning Director for the City and County of Denver in 1955-1956. He then returned to the Ogden Planner position. After retiring from Ogden City he was a planner for the State of Utah in the Department of Natural Resources. Owen was a master gardener and loved sharing the fruits of his labors. Gardeners are optimists, and so was Owen.
His children are Dr. Bruce (Gayla), Debra, Roger (Marcia Leatham), Connie (Rob) White, Scott, David (Kelley), Arlene (Paul) Taylor, Richard, deceased (Jill) and Melissa (Neil) Prator; 20 fabulous grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was so proud of them all.
Owen loved the LDS Gospel, was a High Priest in the Canyon Hollows Ward, Ogden Stake, and served in many callings, especially in YMMIA, Elder's Quorum President, Sunday School, High Council, and was a Gospel Doctrine teacher for many years.
He was a volunteer in the Real Estate Department of the LDS Church. He and Colleen filled a Service Mission in Laie, Hawaii, where he worked as a planner for the Church property management company, Hawaii Reserve, Inc.
He and Colleen served as Stake Family History Consultants in the Ogden Stake for many years, and as long time members of a sealing group in the Ogden Temple.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2009 in the Canyon Hollows Ward Chapel, 1550 Rushton Street, Ogden. Friends may call on Friday, May 22, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, and on Saturday at the Church from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.
Interment will be in Myers Evergreen Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 5/21/2009 - 5/22/2009.
He was born 3 February 1923 in Blanding, Utah to Wallace Alvin Burnham and Emma Marietta Rogers Burnham.
He was born the month of the Posey Indian War, the last Indian War, in San Juan County.
Owen was a graduate of San Juan High School, where he also was a basketball star. His Utah State University education was interrupted by three years of service in the U.S. Army as a Paratrooper, where he served in Italy, parachuted into Southern France in preparation for D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and served in the occupation forces in Berlin.
He attended a semester at Edinburgh University before returning to the victory parade up 5th Avenue in New York. After the war he served for many years in the Utah National Guard. He was proud and grateful to have served his beloved country. He was quiet, kind, thoughtful, and devoted to his wife Colleen.
He also had a world-class, although dry sense of humor. He married Colleen Redd in the Logan Temple 9 June 1947, completed his education at Utah State University, and then earned a graduate degree in City and Regional Planning from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was the Ogden City Planner for some 18 years, and Assistant Planning Director for the City and County of Denver in 1955-1956. He then returned to the Ogden Planner position. After retiring from Ogden City he was a planner for the State of Utah in the Department of Natural Resources. Owen was a master gardener and loved sharing the fruits of his labors. Gardeners are optimists, and so was Owen.
His children are Dr. Bruce (Gayla), Debra, Roger (Marcia Leatham), Connie (Rob) White, Scott, David (Kelley), Arlene (Paul) Taylor, Richard, deceased (Jill) and Melissa (Neil) Prator; 20 fabulous grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was so proud of them all.
Owen loved the LDS Gospel, was a High Priest in the Canyon Hollows Ward, Ogden Stake, and served in many callings, especially in YMMIA, Elder's Quorum President, Sunday School, High Council, and was a Gospel Doctrine teacher for many years.
He was a volunteer in the Real Estate Department of the LDS Church. He and Colleen filled a Service Mission in Laie, Hawaii, where he worked as a planner for the Church property management company, Hawaii Reserve, Inc.
He and Colleen served as Stake Family History Consultants in the Ogden Stake for many years, and as long time members of a sealing group in the Ogden Temple.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2009 in the Canyon Hollows Ward Chapel, 1550 Rushton Street, Ogden. Friends may call on Friday, May 22, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, and on Saturday at the Church from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.
Interment will be in Myers Evergreen Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News from 5/21/2009 - 5/22/2009.
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