Lois Reynolds Hale

1914 - 2010

Lois Reynolds Hale passed away March 6, 2010, surrounded by family, at Sunshine Terrace in Logan, from causes incident to age. She was 95 years old and had enjoyed relatively good health until September 2009. The world may have lost a mom, sister, grandmother, aunt or friend, but she is now with her eternal companion hoping to greet the rest of us when that time comes.
She was born Dec. 23, 1914, to Joseph William and Theresa Christiansen Reynolds in Hyrum, Utah. She was the second of 11 children with six sisters and four brothers. Her family moved to Wellsville, Utah, when she was eight. She graduated from South Cache High School and was accepted into nurses training at Budge Hospital in Logan.
She graduated as a registered nurse in 1936 and worked in Preston, Idaho, and at the McKay Dee hospital in Ogden until her marriage. She married J. LaThare Hale on July 1, 1938, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They then moved to a 50-acre dairy farm at Groveland, Idaho, near Blackfoot. In 1955, they sold the farm and moved into Blackfoot, where they lived until moving to Logan in 1989. LaThare passed away April 23, 1998.
Lois worked as a nurse at the Blackfoot Medical Clinic from 1958 until her retirement in 1976. She was also a Red Cross nurse and enjoyed teaching "Red Cross Home Care of the Sick" courses to women in Bingham County, Idaho.
Lois and LaThare were avid travelers. They enjoyed traveling to Germany and Egypt to visit their children who lived abroad as well as trips to the South Pacific, England and Scandinavia.
Lois and LaThare have four children: Robert (Tana Sargent; Frances Robinson(deceased) of Logan, Utah; Nancy (Hyrum) Hall of Moscow, Russia; Ronald (Linda Bushman) of Lacey, Wash.; and Brent (Linda Thueson) of Orangevale, Calif.
Her greatest joy has been her children and grandchildren and their faithfulness and personal success. She has 23 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Her siblings are Tom Reynolds (deceased), Emma Harris, Rae Sorenson (deceased), Rea Sorenson, Edna Jensen, Edward Reynolds (deceased), Helen Allen (deceased), Joe Reynolds, Joyce Miller (deceased), and Carl Reynolds.
Lois loved to read and one of the hardest trials in her last months was not being able to see well enough to read and most recently not being able to operate her Books-on-Tape machine or television. She did not like to sit idle.
She has been actively involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her service included all the auxiliaries of the church. She and her husband served as officiators in the Idaho Falls, Chicago and Logan temples. Their service in Chicago was as temple missionaries. Her example of selfless service, dedication to family and testimony of the restored gospel are an inspiration to her family.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday March 13 at the Foothill 2nd Ward chapel, 1450 E. 1500 North, Logan, Utah, with interment in the Groveland, Idaho, cemetery at 3 p.m. Friends and family may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday at Nelson's Funeral Home, 162 E. 400 North, Logan, Utah, and from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the chapel on the day of the funeral. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to your favorite charity or LDS Humanitarian Fund. Condolences may be extended to the family online at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com.
A special thanks to those at Sunshine Terrace who cared for Lois the last four months, especially Lisa, Kathy, Stephanie, Ed and Jill, on Wing 4.