Mildred P. Olmstead

Mildred Pitcher Olmstead



Lewiston, Utah



September 5, 1922 – August 26, 2012







Mildred was the “lucky girl whose parents were Henry Cyril and Phoebe Boman Pitcher”. Born September 5, 1922 in Cornish, her family moved to Lewiston shortly after her birth and lived in a three-room log home, one of the first built in Lewiston. As she grew up, she helped her mother cook for the harvest workers, giving her the ability to cook many good meals. In her senior year of High School she received the award of Outstanding Student in Home Economics. She graduated from North Cache High School in 1940 with plans of being a nurse, but she met Dan Olmstead and changed her mind and they got married. This marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Millie said she could write volumes about their life adventures, but left it as it was not a hum drum life. She said, “You never get over your first love”. Millie was a bookkeeper for Northrup Aircraft in California, and for her brother Robert, at the Coeur d Alene, Idaho Livestock Auction. She attended school at the Kandel Knitting Mills and taught others the skills she learned. When she was 60 she went to college at Weber State and took a course in insurance, selling insurance for the next 8 years. At 70 she was called to be a foreign name extractor in the Danish program. She was taught Danish, Gothic and some Latin. This was a great joy to her. In the fall of 2000 she was awarded the prestigious Silver Thimble Award for outstanding work in the quilting world. Millie was famous for her quilting, especially her Celtic work. She taught several classes and influenced and inspired many. She would like to express her gratitude for the many callings she had in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, especially working with the young women, they were a complete joy in her life. Millie’s last statement in a journal: I am so grateful for the many blessings in my life, the hard times helped me grow and develop faith that the Lord will never leave us alone, His love is with us always. I know the Church is true and am grateful for my parents and the pioneer heritage that was given to me, may I always respect them for their example. Survived by her foster daughter Debbie Johns, and many nieces and nephews who love her dearly. Our life will not be the same without our Aunt Millie. Preceded in death by her husband, parents and her brothers, Robert Cyril and Jed Lindy Pitcher.



Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, August 30th at the Lewiston 1st/2nd Ward, 10 South 1600 West in Lewiston. A viewing will be held from 6-8 PM on Wednesday evening at Allen Mortuary of North Logan, 420 East 1800 North in North Logan, and from 9:30-10:30 AM prior to services at the church on Thursday. Interment will be in the Hyde Park City Cemetery. Condolences and thoughts may be expressed to the family online at www.allenmortuaries.net .