Maw, Florence LaRue

Maw, Florence LaRue

Female 1925 - 2017  (92 years)      Has 65 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.


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    Birth 15 Mar 1925  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    AFN 1X9X-LT 
    Death 29 Sep 2017  Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Obituary 1 Oct 2017 (92 years)  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Deseret News 
    • Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway, 92, passed away peacefully on September 29, 2017.

      LaRue was born March 15, 1925 to Florence Buehler and Herbert Brown Maw. She is a product of loving parents and siblings, East High, and the U. of U., where along the way she forged friendships that spanned all of her life.

      She married Benson L. "Ben" Hathaway in 1948; they were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1949 and then embarked on a sixty-nine year adventure of teaching and loving people and life in the Salt Lake Valley; Superior, Wyoming; Arlington Heights, Illinois; Vancouver, Washington; and various other stops in her life's journey.

      LaRue loved and taught music. She instilled that love in her family and in all she served. She taught music at Superior Elementary, Evergreen JHS and Olympus JHS, and other schools in the Salt Lake Valley and Illinois.

      She molded innumerable groups of rag-tag youths, marginally talented adults, and various iterations of her children and Ben into veritable choirs of angels to share her beloved music at church events, music festivals, shopping centers, and rest homes in whatever community she lived. Christmases in LaRue's world were like pages from a storybook, and her "Road Shows" were legendary.

      And there was never an empty seat at LaRue's table. Her eye was toward the lonely, those outside the gate, and those who hurt. Whether it was a student, a neighbor, or just someone in need of a meal, LaRue saw to it that everyone had something to eat, something to do, somewhere to be, …a friend.

      Along LaRue's way, spirits were lifted, lives saved, and the love of God and man enhanced. LaRue ever sought to contribute to that which was good in the world with never a thought for herself.

      Unfortunately, a cerebral aneurysm tripped up LaRue in her sixtieth year. At first undaunted, LaRue's health finally slowed her capacity to serve. Having given so much, LaRue begrudgingly succumbed to the reality of becoming a recipient of another's service. But even in that role she enriched her family's and friends' capacity to love, and made a saint out of her beloved Ben.

      LaRue loved her Father in Heaven, her Savior and her neighbors, and served them faithfully through her lifetime of worship and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

      LaRue leaves behind her husband of nearly sixty-nine years; children, Ann (Rich) Gillespie, Amy Christensen, Jane (Mike) Stout, Ben (Laurie), and Russell; sister, Jean Nibley; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Shirley; brothers, Ralph and Warren Maw; a great-granddaughter, Samantha; and a heavenly choir of extended family and friends.

      LaRue's family thanks — with the utmost love and deepest appreciation — the caregivers at Brighton Hospice and the Abbington Holladay for their tender care of LaRue and Ben.

      Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Olympus Stake Center (the pagoda church), 2675 East 4430 South, with a viewing the evening before from 6:00 to 8:00 and on the day of the funeral from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
      Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from October 1 to October 2, 2017.
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    Burial 5 Oct 2017  Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
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      Birth: Mar. 15, 1925 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
      Death: Sep. 29, 2017 Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

      Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway, 92, passed away peacefully on September 29, 2017.

      LaRue was born March 15, 1925 to Florence Buehler and Herbert Brown Maw. She is a product of loving parents and siblings, East High, and the U. of U., where along the way she forged friendships that spanned all of her life.

      She married Benson L. "Ben" Hathaway in 1948; they were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1949 and then embarked on a sixty-nine year adventure of teaching and loving people and life in the Salt Lake Valley; Superior, Wyoming; Arlington Heights, Illinois; Vancouver, Washington; and various other stops in her life's journey.

      LaRue loved and taught music. She instilled that love in her family and in all she served. She taught music at Superior Elementary, Evergreen JHS and Olympus JHS, and other schools in the Salt Lake Valley and Illinois.

      She molded innumerable groups of rag-tag youths, marginally talented adults, and various iterations of her children and Ben into veritable choirs of angels to share her beloved music at church events, music festivals, shopping centers, and rest homes in whatever community she lived. Christmases in LaRue's world were like pages from a storybook, and her "Road Shows" were legendary.

      And there was never an empty seat at LaRue's table. Her eye was toward the lonely, those outside the gate, and those who hurt. Whether it was a student, a neighbor, or just someone in need of a meal, LaRue saw to it that everyone had something to eat, something to do, somewhere to be, …a friend.

      Along LaRue's way, spirits were lifted, lives saved, and the love of God and man enhanced. LaRue ever sought to contribute to that which was good in the world with never a thought for herself.

      Unfortunately, a cerebral aneurysm tripped up LaRue in her sixtieth year. At first undaunted, LaRue's health finally slowed her capacity to serve. Having given so much, LaRue begrudgingly succumbed to the reality of becoming a recipient of another's service. But even in that role she enriched her family's and friends' capacity to love, and made a saint out of her beloved Ben.

      LaRue loved her Father in Heaven, her Savior and her neighbors, and served them faithfully through her lifetime of worship and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

      LaRue leaves behind her husband of nearly sixty-nine years; children, Ann (Rich) Gillespie, Amy Christensen, Jane (Mike) Stout, Ben (Laurie), and Russell; sister, Jean Nibley; sixteen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Shirley; brothers, Ralph and Warren Maw; a great-granddaughter, Samantha; and a heavenly choir of extended family and friends.

      LaRue's family thanks — with the utmost love and deepest appreciation — the caregivers at Brighton Hospice and the Abbington Holladay for their tender care of LaRue and Ben.

      Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Olympus Stake Center (the pagoda church), 2675 East 4430 South, with a viewing the evening before from 6:00 to 8:00 and on the day of the funeral from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
      Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from October 1 to October 2, 2017.

      Family links:
      Parents:
      Herbert Brown Maw (1893 - 1990)
      Hermina Florence Buehler Maw (1896 - 1984)

      Sibling:
      Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway (1925 - 2017)
      Emma Jeanne Maw Nibley (1930 - 2017)*

      *Calculated relationship

      Burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery
      Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
      Plot: X_2_131_1W

      Created by: Ryan D. Curtis
      Record added: Dec 31, 2017
      Find A Grave Memorial# 186265132
    Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway (1925-2017) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway (1925-2017) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Maw  
              d. Yes, date unknown  (12 x Great Grandfather) 
    Ambuhl, Emma
              b. 13 Jan 1856, Schwellbrunn,,, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 21 Nov 1931, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)  (Grandmother) 
    Headstones Submit Headstone Photo Submit Headstone Photo 
    Person ID I11545  The Family Maw
    Last Modified 6 Feb 2022 

    Father Ancestors Maw, Herbert Brown
              b. 11 Mar 1893, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 17 Nov 1990, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 97 years) 
    Mother Ancestors Buehler, Hermina Florence
              b. 1 Feb 1896, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Nov 1984, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 22 Jun 1921  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : 28 years and 3 months - She : 25 years and 4 months. 
    Family ID F3526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ancestors Hathaway, Benson Lewis "Ben" "Ben"
              b. 9 May 1925, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 28 Jun 2020 (Age 95 years) 
    Marriage 28 Dec 1948  Governor's Mansion, 603 East South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage She : 23 years and 9 months - He : 23 years and 7 months. 
    Children 5 children 
    Family ID F5416  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Feb 2022 

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