Sealed to Jo Ann E Nov 7 1950

The Pleasant Grove Review, Pleasant Grove, Utah, 28 Nov 2001

John Gourley John Gourley, was born November 6, 1930 in the David and Dora Louise West Gourley family home at 1400 East in Pleasant Grove, Utah. I attended schools in Salt Lake City, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Bozeman, Montana, and received my Doctorate from Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. I served in the United States Army from 1950-1952. Serving one year in the 24th Infantry Division, 11th Field Artillery Battalion, in Korea in 1951. The most important thing I did in my life was to marry JaAnn Edwards, of Spanish Fork, Utah in the Mesa LDS Temple on November 7, 1950.

We have four wonderful families of children; Rodney A Gourley and Deena Patton with Milissa and Alan of American Fork, Cherie Gourley Farish and Randy Farish with Jarrod, Nathan (Rebecca Christian), Anthony, Jessica, Nickolas and Amanda of Highland, Utah, Rachelle Gourley Kleinman and Kevin Kleinman with Jason, Angela (Randall) Wood, Matthew, Kristopher, Lisa, Ryan, Ashley, Casey, Amy and Jacob of Highland, Utah, and Richard Gourley and Wendy Fullmer Gourley with Megan, Adam, Kaitlyn, and Olivia of Alpine, Utah. Our children are married in the LDS Temple, our boys served missions for our church, and our daughters married returned missionaries. We also, raised in our home six foster children. They were Eugene Begay, from Arizona, Daniel Wayne, from Arizona, Eugene Jackson, from Arizona, Chok Chai Jansrikesorn, from Thailand, Edu Prieto, from Paraguay, and Yoko Motoki, from Japan. I was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving three missions, one on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana, another in the Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific, (Tarawa), one in the church offices in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I also, loved teaching genealogy. I died at 1400 East, Pleasant Grove on Wednesday, November 21, 2001 and was buried in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery on Saturday, November 24, 2001. Have a good life, I did and I thank my Father in Heaven, David, Dora, and JoAnn and our family for that good life. John P. Gourley The above obituary was written personally by John Paul Gourley.

John served as a Stake Missionary, on the Stake High Council, in the Stake Presidency, and most recently as the Director of the Pleasant Grove East Family History Center. Funeral services were held Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001 at Olpin Family Mortuary for family and friends..