Jacqueline "Jackie" Dansie Moulton's Obituary
Jacqueline “Jackie” Dansie Moulton, 94, passed away smiling on December 3, 2023 at home in Provo, Utah. She was born August 15, 1929 in Salt Lake City, the oldest child of Wallace and Helga Dansie. A younger sister, Carolyn, died as a toddler. A brother, Lynn, passed away in 2022, and the two other adored brothers, Byron and Warren, are still going strong-ish.
Jackie grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from Granite High. She worked in Berkeley, California with a couple of dear girlfriends before serving a mission in Norway, the home of her mother’s ancestors. She loved everything Norwegian, and maintained her facility with the language throughout her life.
In 1954, Jackie married Rex C Moulton in the Salt Lake LDS temple. In 1968, they moved with their four children to New Zealand for a grand adventure that changed all of their lives forever. While Rex supervised the building of four chapels, Jackie oversaw the not-always-perfect children and household while soaking up everything she possibly could about this beautiful adopted home.
Jackie and Rex loved to learn and explore and took their family around the world, visiting six continents and more than forty countries in their travels. Jackie was someone who could make a lifelong friend while waiting for a train or buying vegetables. She enjoyed nothing more than spending time with the people she loved—and that was pretty much everyone. Home for Jackie was wherever she happened to be at the moment, and family was whoever she was talking to.
Jackie and Rex raised their family in Holladay, Utah, where the doors of the Moulton home swung outward, inviting all to come inside, then closed in a warm embrace. It was a lovely and welcoming place, a place of gathering and inclusion where the family circle continued to expand as relatives, friends, neighbors, and even strangers became unofficially adopted children and siblings.
Jackie’s creativity and writing skills were frequently enlisted to fashion unforgettable roadshows and productions—in addition to the many other ways she shared her gifts and love with the ward and the world. She had the soul and gift of a poet, offering insights, memories, hopes, and humor through stories, memoirs, travelogues, and poetry.
Rex and Jackie served a mission in Solihull, England, augmenting their family yet again with dozens of treasured friends who will last through the eternities.
In 2012, they moved to Provo to be closer to their children, and while Rex wasn’t able to stay long—having other grand adventures beckoning from the other side—Jackie quickly found herself again surrounded by the dearest friends she could imagine, who brought her into their lives and wove themselves permanently into her heart.
With all of Jackie’s gifts, her greatest truly lay in treasuring friendship. To her final breaths, she maintained connection with friends old and new—some from earliest childhood, others who stepped into her life’s last, final, tender moments as they cared for her.
How does one count Jackie’s family that remains here to celebrate her triumph? Through the adoption of love, the numbers extend far beyond biology. Her four children became eight through marriage: Michelle and Steve Young, Jaret and Melissa Moulton, Dayna and Micah Wheatley, and Tyler and Heather Moulton. But that reckoning is wholly insufficient because so many others shared her as a mother—even if they had another one back home: Max, Julie, Kimber, Stacy, and so many others along the way, including the many who cherished her as “Aunt Jackie.”
Posterity becomes impossible to calculate in such a life—like sands on the shore or stars in the sky. But each of her grandchildren and great grandchildren know how much “Nomi” cherishes them, and they treasured their time with her.
Those currently feeling her loss here are vastly outnumbered by all the loved ones rejoicing with her on the other side and welcoming her home. Hold those doors open for us, Mum and Dad, Nomi and Papa, Aunt Jackie and Uncle Rex! We’ll join you all ere long.
Interment will take place Thursday, December 7 at 2:00 pm at the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
A memorial service will be held at the Pleasant View 5th Ward chapel (2400 N 1060 E, Provo) on Friday, December 8 at 6:00 pm, (Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/94806640891 Password: 519060). A pot luck dessert social will follow so family and friends can mingle and reminisce.
In lieu of flowers, we invite you to consider making a donation to LDS Humanitarian Services or another worthwhile charity in her name.
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