Grace Forrester Allen

Grace Forrester Allen died January 5th, 2008, at the Legacy House Assisted Living Center in Logan, Utah. She died of natural causes at the age of 91.
She was born June 18th, 1916, in Smithfield, Utah, the only child of Joseph William and Mary Bowers Forrester. She married Lloyd Donald Allen September the 5th, 1934. Their marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple the 17th of June, 1947. Their union was blessed with five children, Ron, Larry, Cheryl, Dixon, and Randy.
Grace was raised on a farm in Smithfield, Utah. The farm was managed by her father, Joseph Forrester and his brother, Jim Forrester who married sisters, Mary and Ada Bowers. These families shared their lives and were always very close.
Grace attended old Summit grade school in Smithfield and the new Smithfield junior high school where she participated in basketball and track. She attended North Cache high school in Richmond.
As with many in her generation who went through the great depression, she learned the value of hard work and self-sufficiency. She worked with cousins and family thinning and hoeing beets and toping them in the fall, hoeing potatoes and corn, tromping loads of hay and riding the derrick horse when unloading. Taking the cows to the creek land pasture was often her job.
Grace and Lloyd lived in Hyrum for eight years and moved to Ogden for the duration of WWII until returning to Hyrum in 1950 where they lived the remainder of their lives.
Grace served in many different callings in the LDS Church while living in Washington Terrace and later in Hyrum. She especially loved her callings in the Primary and MIA.
She enjoyed a tidy home and nice flowers around the yard, and a vegetable garden to share a bountiful harvest with family and friends. She enjoyed her membership in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Sego Lily Camp. Her father, Joseph William Forrester, was born before the coming of the railroad making her a daughter of a native pioneer. She revered her pioneer ancestry and served in the DUP for sixteen years, holding different callings. One of her talents was beautiful penmanship which she used throughout her life to create various documents and awards.
Grace was first and always a mother, her children and family central to her life. She loved her children and grandchildren and sealed that love with her dear husband in the Salt Lake Temple June 17th, 1947, with 24 other couples and families from the Washington Terrace Branch of the Church.
She is survived by five children and their spouses: Ron and Carol Allen of Clackamas, Oregon; Larry and Beth Allen of Hyrum, Utah; Cheryl and Brent Rock of Anchorage, Alaska; Dixon and Diana Allen of Smithfield, Utah; and Randy and Diane Allen of West Jordan, Utah. Other survivors include 35 grand children, 65 great grandchildren, and 2.5 great great grandchildren. Preceding her in death were her husband, two grand children and one great grand child.
Services will be held 12:00 noon, Thursday, January 10th, at the Hyrum North Stake Center, 175 North 735 East, Hyrum, Utah.
A viewing will be held from 6 to 8 PM, Wednesday, January 9th, at Allen Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center, Logan, Utah; and prior to the service on Thursday from 10:30 to 11:30 AM at the church.
Following the service, interment will be at the Hyrum Cemetery. Condolences and thoughts may be expressed to the family online at www.allenmortuaries.net .