Rodney James Olcott

May 31, 1949 - November 12, 2019

RODNEY JAMES OLCOTT AGE 70, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY NOV.12, 2019, IN TAYLORSVILLE, UTAH, SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES. HE WAS BORN MAY 31,1949 IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TO AUBREY JAMES OLCOTT AND ROSELLA MAY WHETMAN OLCOTT. HE MARRIED CARRIE NUZMAN ON AUGUST 22, 2006 IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. RODNEY WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. HE ATTENDED THE TEMPLE 2 AND 3 DAYS A WEEK FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE HE GOT SICK AND COULD NO LONGER GO. RODNEY ALSO RETIRED FROM WAL-MART AFTER MANY YEARS OF SERVICE. HE WAS A VERY HARD WORKER AND LOVED GOING TO WORK, WHERE EVERYONE LOVED HIM. HE ALSO LOVED BEING AT FAMILY GATHERINGS, LAUGHING AND EATING AND JOKING WITH HIS NIECES AND NEPHEWS. HE HAD A SPECIAL LOVE FOR HIS BLACK CAT "MILO"WHO WAS A COMPANION ANIMAL FOR SEVERAL YEARS RODNEY ATTENDED SCHOOLS IN MURRAY UTAH, WHERE HE LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE. RODNEY STRUGGLED IN MOST THINGS THAT HE DID, DUE TO A LEARNING DISABILITY SUSTAINED FROM A FALL AT AN EARLY AGE, AND THE LOSS OF HIS SIGHT IN ONE EYE FROM AN ACCIDENT IN HIS EARLY TEENS. BUT IN SPITE OF THESE CHALLENGES, HE WORKED HARD AND SUCCEEDED IN MOST ALL HE TRIED TO DO. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE CARRIE NUZMAN, A SISTER, GLORIA VAN RIJ (JACOB), AND NEPHEWS AND NIECES'S. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS. THERE WILL BE NO SERVICES AT THIS TIME BUT A CELEBRATION OF RODNEY'S LIFE WILL BE HELD AT A LATER DATE.