Marjorie Ann Smith Wilson's Obituary
Marjorie Ann Smith was born in one of the most beautiful places in the country, Hershey, Pennsylvania, on October 9, 1936, to Emma Viola Hudson from Kentucky and Sydney Charles Smith from Indiana. Marjie spent her first nine years living in nearby Lebanon, PA, where she developed a love of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, singing, acting, canoeing, hiking, fireflies, and her Savior Jesus Christ in the Lutheran church.
Moving west by train to Utah in 1945, at age 11 Marjie joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and developed a deep love for the Gospel.
Marjie excelled in school and skipped her senior year at Granite High School and entered the University of Utah just shy of her 17th birthday as a Ford Scholar. During her summers while attending the U, she developed a love of red rock country by spending four summers working at Zion National Park Lodge. Marjie met her forever love, Lowell Fisher Wilson at the Institute of Religion where they both graduated with degrees in education. They Married in the Salt Lake Temple on June 6, 1958, and taught children in the same school for a year before boarding a ship and sailing away to the South Pacific, to Western Samoa to teach in the LDS Church School for three years. Marjie and Lowell’s first two children, Elaine and Kenneth Lowell, were born under a canopy of coconut palms. The new parents returned to Salt Lake City in 1962. Wendy kay was born in 1967 and Marjie and Lowell moved to sunny Santa Monica, California, where Marjie supported Lowell in his new position as Director of the Institute of Religion at Santa Monica College. While there, their last two children arrived to complete their family, Carrie Ann, and Bonnie Jean, before the family moved back to Salt Lake City in 1972, and made East Mill Creek their permanent home.
In a home full of creativity, Marjie taught her children to love of music, literature, community theater, and learning, and became a published poet. Later Marjie served with her husband on three missions: Temple Square, Cambodia, and Leeds, England. All the while, Marjie loved being a mother, becoming a grandmother and great grandmother.
She is survived by her four children, Ken (Karman), Wendy Spooner (Tony), Carrie Smith (Brian), and Bonnie Whitlock (Chad). Preceded in death by her husband Lowell, daughter Elaine, parents, Sydney and Emma, sand sister, Corinne Smith Barker. She had found great joy in her eleven grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren, giving service, putting the Lord first and being grateful for ALL experiences with a contagious zest for life.
The formal viewing and funeral services will be held on April 24, 2026 starting at 9:30am with the funeral proceedings at 11:00 am at the Green Valley Third Ward building on 1282 West 500 South Circle, St. George, UT 94117.
The interment will be held at Elysian Gardens Cemetery at 9:30 am the next morning on Saturday April 25, 2026. At 1075 East 4580 South, Millcreek, Utah 94117.
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