Obituary: Dorothy Durrant Larsen

Dorothy Durrant Larsen 1918 ~ 2005 Dorothy Durrant Larsen passed away February 16, 2005 of natural causes. She was born to Lorenzo James and Agnes Prescilla Lewis Durrant on November 6, 1918, and was the fifth of six children. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at Brigham Young University with a minor degree in French. She married Paul W. Larsen, her high school sweetheart on November 20, 1939 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were married 55 years at the time of his death in 1995. She served many years in the Utah Symphony Guild, The Times Club, as a hostess at the LDS Church Office Building and as President of Sigma Chi Mothers Club at the University of Utah. She enjoyed golfing and won several tournaments including the President's Cup at the Salt Lake Country Club. She is survived by her three sons; John Paul and wife Sally, Orem, Utah; Robert Lewis and wife Jill, Salt Lake City; Parley Craig, Salt Lake City; six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband; two sisters, Madolene Durrant, and Donna Durrant Sorensen; three brothers, Lorenzo Dean Durrant, Russell Durrant, and W. Stanford Durrant. She is remembered as a loving mother, an accomplished pianist, teacher, and a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She filled her home with beautiful needlepoint. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at noon at the Parleys Sixth Ward Chapel, 2350 South 2100 East. Friends may call on Monday evening, February 21, 2005, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 South Highland Drive, and at the Parleys Sixth Ward prior to services from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Interment, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. The family wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks for the kind and compassionate care that mother received from the nurses and staff of the LDS Hospital and Care Source Hospice.