VELMA STEWART
Velma Heaton Stewart passed away June 30, 2010, at Odyssey Hospice, just four days after her 88th birthday. In passing, she rejoined her beloved husband, Neil Stewart, who had passed away more than 16 years earlier.
Velma was born June 26, 1922, into a large and loving family in Alton, Utah. Except for her dear twin brother, Volma "Bud" Heaton, all of that family predeceased her, parents, Daniel Hoyt Heaton and Lydia Eva Wilson Heaton; brothers, James, Garn, Keith and DeVoe; and sisters, Marie Crosby, Leda Bolander and Cheryl Krivit.
After a happy childhood in Alton, Velma spent her teen years in St. George, where she graduated from Dixie High School in 1939. The family then moved to Reno, where Velma attended the University of Nevada, and where she met her beloved Neil of Alamo. They married in the LDS St. George Temple Oct. 31, 1944, shortly before Neil, an infantry officer, left for the war. After his return and the completion of his education, they made their home in Fallon, then Overton, and then Alamo, where they used her savings from the war years to fund the homesteading and development of Stewart's Hiko Ranch, which is still in the family. During these years, Velma and Neil welcomed into their family three very fortunate children, Michelle, Monte and Dan. In December 1954, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Neil and Velma, on the bedrock of faith, hard work, loyalty and devotion to family, built a wonderful life centered on family-owned construction businesses, church and community service and a myriad of friends.
Velma is known and loved throughout the valley for her decades of devoted service through the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then, in later years, through her service at the LDS Las Vegas Temple. Neil and Velma were true and exemplary members of the "Greatest Generation" and were among that band of doers of all faiths and origins who built from a small town the great Las Vegas metropolis. To all who knew her, Velma will always be remembered as a gracious lady.
She is survived by her daughter, Michelle (Clarke Cox); and sons, Monte (Anne Lillywhite) and Dan (Mary Henry); 18 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 9, both at the LDS Chapel at Wigwam Parkway and Pebble Road, in Henderson. Interment will follow at Bunkers Memory Gardens Cemetery, 7251 W. Lone Mountain Road (at Tenaya Way), in Las Vegas.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 2, 2010
Velma Heaton Stewart passed away June 30, 2010, at Odyssey Hospice, just four days after her 88th birthday. In passing, she rejoined her beloved husband, Neil Stewart, who had passed away more than 16 years earlier.
Velma was born June 26, 1922, into a large and loving family in Alton, Utah. Except for her dear twin brother, Volma "Bud" Heaton, all of that family predeceased her, parents, Daniel Hoyt Heaton and Lydia Eva Wilson Heaton; brothers, James, Garn, Keith and DeVoe; and sisters, Marie Crosby, Leda Bolander and Cheryl Krivit.
After a happy childhood in Alton, Velma spent her teen years in St. George, where she graduated from Dixie High School in 1939. The family then moved to Reno, where Velma attended the University of Nevada, and where she met her beloved Neil of Alamo. They married in the LDS St. George Temple Oct. 31, 1944, shortly before Neil, an infantry officer, left for the war. After his return and the completion of his education, they made their home in Fallon, then Overton, and then Alamo, where they used her savings from the war years to fund the homesteading and development of Stewart's Hiko Ranch, which is still in the family. During these years, Velma and Neil welcomed into their family three very fortunate children, Michelle, Monte and Dan. In December 1954, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Neil and Velma, on the bedrock of faith, hard work, loyalty and devotion to family, built a wonderful life centered on family-owned construction businesses, church and community service and a myriad of friends.
Velma is known and loved throughout the valley for her decades of devoted service through the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then, in later years, through her service at the LDS Las Vegas Temple. Neil and Velma were true and exemplary members of the "Greatest Generation" and were among that band of doers of all faiths and origins who built from a small town the great Las Vegas metropolis. To all who knew her, Velma will always be remembered as a gracious lady.
She is survived by her daughter, Michelle (Clarke Cox); and sons, Monte (Anne Lillywhite) and Dan (Mary Henry); 18 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 9, both at the LDS Chapel at Wigwam Parkway and Pebble Road, in Henderson. Interment will follow at Bunkers Memory Gardens Cemetery, 7251 W. Lone Mountain Road (at Tenaya Way), in Las Vegas.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 2, 2010
VELMA STEWART
Velma Heaton Stewart passed away June 30, 2010, at Odyssey Hospice, just four days after her 88th birthday. In passing, she rejoined her beloved husband, Neil Stewart, who had passed away more than 16 years earlier.
Velma was born June 26, 1922, into a large and loving family in Alton, Utah. Except for her dear twin brother, Volma "Bud" Heaton, all of that family predeceased her, parents, Daniel Hoyt Heaton and Lydia Eva Wilson Heaton; brothers, James, Garn, Keith and DeVoe; and sisters, Marie Crosby, Leda Bolander and Cheryl Krivit.
After a happy childhood in Alton, Velma spent her teen years in St. George, where she graduated from Dixie High School in 1939. The family then moved to Reno, where Velma attended the University of Nevada, and where she met her beloved Neil of Alamo. They married in the LDS St. George Temple Oct. 31, 1944, shortly before Neil, an infantry officer, left for the war. After his return and the completion of his education, they made their home in Fallon, then Overton, and then Alamo, where they used her savings from the war years to fund the homesteading and development of Stewart's Hiko Ranch, which is still in the family. During these years, Velma and Neil welcomed into their family three very fortunate children, Michelle, Monte and Dan. In December 1954, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Neil and Velma, on the bedrock of faith, hard work, loyalty and devotion to family, built a wonderful life centered on family-owned construction businesses, church and community service and a myriad of friends.
Velma is known and loved throughout the valley for her decades of devoted service through the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then, in later years, through her service at the LDS Las Vegas Temple. Neil and Velma were true and exemplary members of the "Greatest Generation" and were among that band of doers of all faiths and origins who built from a small town the great Las Vegas metropolis. To all who knew her, Velma will always be remembered as a gracious lady.
She is survived by her daughter, Michelle (Clarke Cox); and sons, Monte (Anne Lillywhite) and Dan (Mary Henry); 18 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 9, both at the LDS Chapel at Wigwam Parkway and Pebble Road, in Henderson. Interment will follow at Bunkers Memory Gardens Cemetery, 7251 W. Lone Mountain Road (at Tenaya Way), in Las Vegas.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 2, 2010
Velma Heaton Stewart passed away June 30, 2010, at Odyssey Hospice, just four days after her 88th birthday. In passing, she rejoined her beloved husband, Neil Stewart, who had passed away more than 16 years earlier.
Velma was born June 26, 1922, into a large and loving family in Alton, Utah. Except for her dear twin brother, Volma "Bud" Heaton, all of that family predeceased her, parents, Daniel Hoyt Heaton and Lydia Eva Wilson Heaton; brothers, James, Garn, Keith and DeVoe; and sisters, Marie Crosby, Leda Bolander and Cheryl Krivit.
After a happy childhood in Alton, Velma spent her teen years in St. George, where she graduated from Dixie High School in 1939. The family then moved to Reno, where Velma attended the University of Nevada, and where she met her beloved Neil of Alamo. They married in the LDS St. George Temple Oct. 31, 1944, shortly before Neil, an infantry officer, left for the war. After his return and the completion of his education, they made their home in Fallon, then Overton, and then Alamo, where they used her savings from the war years to fund the homesteading and development of Stewart's Hiko Ranch, which is still in the family. During these years, Velma and Neil welcomed into their family three very fortunate children, Michelle, Monte and Dan. In December 1954, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Neil and Velma, on the bedrock of faith, hard work, loyalty and devotion to family, built a wonderful life centered on family-owned construction businesses, church and community service and a myriad of friends.
Velma is known and loved throughout the valley for her decades of devoted service through the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then, in later years, through her service at the LDS Las Vegas Temple. Neil and Velma were true and exemplary members of the "Greatest Generation" and were among that band of doers of all faiths and origins who built from a small town the great Las Vegas metropolis. To all who knew her, Velma will always be remembered as a gracious lady.
She is survived by her daughter, Michelle (Clarke Cox); and sons, Monte (Anne Lillywhite) and Dan (Mary Henry); 18 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 9, both at the LDS Chapel at Wigwam Parkway and Pebble Road, in Henderson. Interment will follow at Bunkers Memory Gardens Cemetery, 7251 W. Lone Mountain Road (at Tenaya Way), in Las Vegas.
Published in Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 2, 2010
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