4/1/06 – 12/22/05

TOGETHER FOREVER

We rejoice that Don Q Crowther is now reunited with his beloved wife, Irene, and his extended family following his demise December 22 in Logan, Utah. He passed away gently, in his sleep, just three months prior to turning 100.

A son of William Orson and Mary Caroline Mortensen Crowther and the youngest of their 10 children, he was born and raised in Sanford, Colorado. He attended public schools there and graduated from the San Luis Academy. After serving an LDS mission in New York from 1925-27, he courted his sweetheart, Mary Irene Swofford, and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple September 5, 1928. They moved to Washington, D.C. where he graduated from George Washington University in 1937, majoring in Economics and minoring in Statistics.

He worked for the U.S. Government for 35 years, serving in the Bureau of Public Roads, U.S. Pension Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Production Authority, and the Federal Civil Defense Administration. He was a Labor Economist and Supervisory Statistician, and a strike arbitrator. He retired in 1965 and moved to Utah, living 17 years in Paradise, then from 1983 to 2004 in River Heights. Since Autumn 2004, he has resided at Terrace Grove in Logan.

He served in numerous LDS Church callings including Stake Clerk, Branch President, Bishop (twice), Stake Sunday School Superintendent, member of several High Councils, YMMIA Superintendent, Scoutmaster, and a faithful Home Teacher wherever he lived. During his many years as a Stake Patriarch in the Potomac (VA), and Hyrum and Providence (UT) Stakes, he gave 1,136 patriarchal blessings. He very likely was the oldest living Eagle Scout in the USA prior to his passing.

He also filled many civic callings: Chairman of the Cache County Resource, Conservation and Development Committee; member of the Paradise Town Council and Paradise Park Development Committee; Secretary of the Paradise Volunteer Fire Department; Lions Club member; and wrote Volunteer-of-the-Week articles for the Logan Herald Journal.

Don and Irene are the parents of three children: Shirley (Mrs. Heber Hardman), Logan, Duane (Jean) Crowther, Bountiful, and Norman (Elisabeth) Crowther, Draper. Through them they currently have 21 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren. In addition, Don is survived by over a thousand nieces and nephews and their posterity. He provided years of valuable service in the W.O. Crowther and Don Q Crowther Family Organizations.

Don was a devoted and caring husband, a loving father and grandfather, a true gentleman, a sterling example of moral manhood, and a faithful disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. A truly humble and meek individual, he touched many lives for good!

Funeral services will be held Thursday, Dec. 29, in the Providence Stake Center (800 S. 600 East, River Heights), at 12:00 noon. Friends and family may call at the Allen Hall Mortuary (34 E. Center, Logan) Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. There also will be a viewing at the Providence Stake Center Thursday, 10:30 -11:30 a.m., prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the LDS Humanitarian or Missionary Funds. Condolences may be sent ot the family at Allen Mortuaries.