Emer Demar Jarvis, 91, died December 10, 2000 in Salt Lake City of causes incident to old age. Although we will miss him and mourn his passing, we rejoice with him in his new found freedom as he rejoins his sweetheart, parents and dear friends who have gone before.
Emer was born April 21, 1909 at Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico, the second of 13 children born to Mary Ellen Lake and George Josiah Jarvis. He and his family were forced to leave Mexico during the Revolution of 1912. They went to St. George, UT and later migrated to southeastern Utah, living in Blanding, Moab, and Monticello. As a teenager he and his family returned to the Mormon colonies in Mexico where Emer ranched with his father and completed high school. While attending the Juarez Academy, he met and courted the love of his life, Jessie Ina Hunter of Provo, UT, who had come to Mexico with her uncle Ralph Keeler while he served as principal of the school. They became eternal companions on February 14, 1933, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Emer and Ina raised a family of five sons and four daughters while living in Snowflake, AZ, El Paso, TX, Mesa, AZ, Provo, UT and Cedar City, UT. He worked at various occupations but mainly as a Manager for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. or running his own sewing machine business.
Emer was a High Priest of the LDS Church. He served in many different callings but his first love was being a good home teacher and doing missionary work. He and Ina served in the St. George temple and were called as missionaries to Mexico. In their later years they resided in Cedar City and Parowan, UT where he finally was able to own the farm he had longed for where he could raise horses and share his love of working with animals with his grandchildren.
He is survived by his nine children: Kenneth (Joyce); Harold (Faye); Donald (Ruth); Neil (Carol); George (Susan); Carolyn (Rex) Montgomery; Janice (Derrell) Rudd; Ina Mogensen; and Kathy (Gail) Cripps, . His posterity includes 40 grandchildren and 63 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers, Anthony, Warren, and Andrew Jarvis, and his sisters, Neola Scott, Birdie Tanner, and Annie Osborne, all residing in Arizona.
He was preceded in death by his wife, his parents, three sisters and three brothers.
Funeral services will be held at the Walker Mortuary, 85 E. 300 S., Provo, UT on Saturday, December 16, 2000 at 11 a.m. There will be a viewing Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. and one hour before services on Saturday. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
The family expresses appreciation to the friends and staff at Cove Point Retirement Community and to the staff of the Heritage Bennion Care Center in Salt Lake City.
-Deseret News, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000
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Emer Demar Jarvis, 91, died December 10, 2000 in Salt Lake City of causes incident to old age. Although we will miss him and mourn his passing, we rejoice with him in his new found freedom as he rejoins his sweetheart, parents and dear friends who have gone before.
Emer was born April 21, 1909 at Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico, the second of 13 children born to Mary Ellen Lake and George Josiah Jarvis. He and his family were forced to leave Mexico during the Revolution of 1912. They went to St. George, UT and later migrated to southeastern Utah, living in Blanding, Moab, and Monticello. As a teenager he and his family returned to the Mormon colonies in Mexico where Emer ranched with his father and completed high school. While attending the Juarez Academy, he met and courted the love of his life, Jessie Ina Hunter of Provo, UT, who had come to Mexico with her uncle Ralph Keeler while he served as principal of the school. They became eternal companions on February 14, 1933, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Emer and Ina raised a family of five sons and four daughters while living in Snowflake, AZ, El Paso, TX, Mesa, AZ, Provo, UT and Cedar City, UT. He worked at various occupations but mainly as a Manager for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. or running his own sewing machine business.
Emer was a High Priest of the LDS Church. He served in many different callings but his first love was being a good home teacher and doing missionary work. He and Ina served in the St. George temple and were called as missionaries to Mexico. In their later years they resided in Cedar City and Parowan, UT where he finally was able to own the farm he had longed for where he could raise horses and share his love of working with animals with his grandchildren.
He is survived by his nine children: Kenneth (Joyce); Harold (Faye); Donald (Ruth); Neil (Carol); George (Susan); Carolyn (Rex) Montgomery; Janice (Derrell) Rudd; Ina Mogensen; and Kathy (Gail) Cripps, . His posterity includes 40 grandchildren and 63 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers, Anthony, Warren, and Andrew Jarvis, and his sisters, Neola Scott, Birdie Tanner, and Annie Osborne, all residing in Arizona.
He was preceded in death by his wife, his parents, three sisters and three brothers.
Funeral services will be held at the Walker Mortuary, 85 E. 300 S., Provo, UT on Saturday, December 16, 2000 at 11 a.m. There will be a viewing Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. and one hour before services on Saturday. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
The family expresses appreciation to the friends and staff at Cove Point Retirement Community and to the staff of the Heritage Bennion Care Center in Salt Lake City.
-Deseret News, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000
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Family Members
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Millie Ellen Jarvis Titus
1904–2000
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Grace May Jarvis Jesperson
1906–1931
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Josiah George Jarvis
1908–1911
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Neola Jarvis Scott
1911–2008
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Folvia Jarvis Porter
1913–1996
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Birdie Mariilla Jarvis Tanner
1915–2001
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Annie Marie Jarvis Osborn
1916–2009
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Hanson Roscoe Jarvis
1918–1919
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Anthony Ivins "Tony" Jarvis
1920–2008
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Warren Lake Jarvis
1921–2010
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Harold Loyse Jarvis
1923–1923
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Andrew Lee Jarvis
1924–2012
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