Elizabeth (Betty) Maughan

Elizabeth(Betty) Jones Maughan, age 81, returned to
her Heavenly
Father Friday, July 13 surrounded by family members.
Betty was born August 19, 1925 to William Murray and
Bessie Hill Jones, the youngest of four children.
She attended Floradell Elementary and Wellsville
Junior High School and graduated from South Cache High
School in 1943. She also attended USAC.
She married Merlin Boswell Maughan December 17, 1948
in the Logan LDS Temple. Betty contracted Polio in
December 1953 and spent six weeks at St. Benedict's
Hospital in Ogden, Utah.
In 1954 the family moved to California while Merlin
attended Physical Therapy School at Stanford
University. In 1956 the family moved to Richland,
Washington where they spent the next eight years. They
returned to Utah in 1963 and lived in Bountiful, Utah
and later returned to Wellsville.
She has been a devoted member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints throughout her life and
had a strong testimony of the Gospel. She served a
mission in the Northern States from 1946-1948. She
served in many capacities:
Primary Counselor and President; Relief Society
Counselor, class leader, pianist and visiting teacher;
Sunday School teacher, Scout leader, MIA pianist, Ward
organist, ward chorister and Choir director. She and
Merlin served a mission at the Family History Center
in Salt Lake City in 1990-1991.
Music was a great influence in her life. She learned
to play the piano at an early age and spent many hours
practicing and accompanying performers. In Jr. High
School and High School she played the trumpet in the
band and the school dance orchestra. While serving on
her first mission she had the opportunity to play in a
dance orchestra and tour the mission playing for Gold
and Green Balls and Church services. She was also
accompanist for "Rainbow Singers" and "Korner Kids".
She sang with the Northern Utah Choral Society under
the direction of Dr.
Willard Kesling (1987) for sixteen years (took one
year off for mission) until
the present time. She traveled to Mexico and
Washington D. C. with the choir. She was employed at
F.W. Woolworth's, Bushnell General Hospital, as a
Teacher's
Aide at South Cache Junior High School and was a
typist at the Logan LDS Temple
for nine years.
She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great
grandmother and sister.
Her family came first in her life and she served them
with love, faith and integrity. She was a hard worker,
a wonderful homemaker and an excellent cook.
She is survived by her four children Marsha (Jack)
Peterson, Logan; Brandt (Christy) Maughan, Vista,
California; Hal (Keri) Maughan Mesa, Arizona; and
Douglas (Janice) Maughan Columbia, Maryland, fourteen
grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren,
sister Mary Merrill of Roy, Utah and a brother William
Jones, River Heights, sisters-in-law Joyce Maughan,
Jeanne Maughan, Sharon Nielson, and Donna (Reid) and Paul Nielsen. She
was preceded in death by her parents, her husband:, a
baby daughter and, a sister Helen Wilcox.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 18 at
12 noon in the River Heights 1st Ward, 600 East 800
South with Bishop Troy Wakefield conducting. A
viewing will be held from 6-8 PM on Tuesday, July 17
at Allen-Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street in Logan
and one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the
church. Interment will be in the Wellsville City
Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed to the family
online at www.allenmortuaries.net .
The family wishes to express thanks and appreciation
to Dher River Heights Ward family, Dr. Douglas R.
Hyldahl, Dr. Ali Ben-Jacob, and Alpine Hospice for
their loving care.