Kathleen Haslam Gale- Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister passed away October 14, 2004 at the Sunshine Terrace Nursing Home, Logan Utah, from complications related to Alzheimer disease. She was born August 19, 1934 to George M. Haslam and Kate Gunnell Haslam in Wellsville, Cache County, Utah. She was the third child having two older brothers Alden and LeRoy Haslam.

She attended Floradell Elementary, Wellsville Junior High and South Cache High School, graduating in May 1952. High school was a wonder time in her life being involved the Sparta Pep Club, LDS Seminary and all the school musicals. A highlight of high school activities and one that she spoke of often was the Senior Hits musical program. She was proud of her trophy cup given by Dr. G.S Francis as the Top Vocal Student for the year. Music was always a very important part of her life.

Kathleen has been an active member of the LDS church throughout her life and has served as a ward organist, chorister, and director of the chore and stake Singing Mothers Chorus. She served for over thirty years in a music capacity in the wards or stakes in which she has lived.

In 1952 she was Miss South Cache and was chosen to represent Cache County in the Miss Utah Beauty Pageant in Salt Lake City.

She enjoyed watching athletic events on television with her husband and was a great Jazz fan and very seldom missed a Jazz game. She learned to understand and enjoy athletic events by watching and cheering for her older bother as he participated in athletics at South Cach High School. After high school she attended and graduated from Utah State University in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She also graduated from the LDS Institute of Religion. While attending Utah State University she was accepted into the Military Sponsor Corps which was an auxiliary to the Air Force ROTC officer training program and attained the rank of a Major.

At Utah State she met her future husband, W. Adrian Gale and they were married on October 18, 1956 in the Logan LDS Temple. They would have celebrated their forty-eighth wedding anniversary on October 18, 2004. Their marriage was blessed with the birth of three beautiful daughters, Melece Louise, Teresa, and Janalee.

After graduating from Utah State they moved to Brigham City, Utah where Adrian taught school at Box Elder High School and Kathleen was one of the very early employees of Thiokol Chemical Corporation as the company was just becoming established in Utah. They later made their home in Providence, Utah and have lived there for forty-two years. In June 2004 Adrian sold their home in Providence and moved to Logan, Utah where he could be closer to where Kathleen was residing in the Sunshine Terrace Nursing Home.

Kathleen has worked for several years for the Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Cache County School system and eighteen year as the Providence City Recorder, retiring in 1996. In this capacity she made many friends as she extended to them her friendly personality and enjoyed very much meeting and visiting with Providence citizens as they came into the city office.

She was very proud of her pioneer heritage and was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Spring Creek Camp.

In August of 1998 Kathleen and Adrian were called to serve a mission for the LDS Church to the Raleigh North Carolina Mission. Raleigh is a beautiful old southern city with friendly people of which they made many friends that they will remember always. While in North Carolina and on the return home they had the opportunity to visit several of the Civil War Battle Fields which added deeper feelings of the great struggle our nation endured in the 1860's. They returned home in October 1999.

Kathleen is survived by her husband, Adrian, daughters, Melece Louise (Brad) Flinders. Wathena Kansas, Teresa (Chad) Falslev, Benson, Utah, and Janalee (Geoffrey) Thomas, lona, Idaho. Sixteen grandchildren, Benjamin, Paul, Matthew, David, Mary, Thomas, Michael, Sarah, Megan (Zachery) Jones, Chelsea, Dillon, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, Ashlee, and Emilee. Two brothers, Alden (Marilyn) Haslam and LeRoy (Sallie) Haslam and many nieces and nephews all living in tht Salt Lake City, Utah area.

Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, October 18, 2004 at 12:00 noon in the Providence 2nd and 9th Ward Chapel, 309 South Main, Providence, Utah. Services will be conducted by Bishop Albert Beazer of the Providence Third Ward. A viewing for family and friends will be held on Sunday, October 17 at the Allen-Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street in Logan, Utah from 6:00 PM to 8: 00 PM and one hour before the funeral service at the church from 10:30 to 11:30 am. Burial will be in the family plot in the Wellsville City Cemetery with her parents, grandparents and many of her loved ones.

Our family is most grateful to the many wonderful caring nurses on Wing # 1 and the administration at the Sunshine Terrace Nursing Home for the many acts oflove and kindness extended to our Mother and Sweetheart. We would want to extend our appreciation to Dr. Michael Stones for his many years of thoughtful professional care and consideration. Plus Vista Care Hospice personnel for their caring service. To all our dear friends and neighbors of the Providence 3rd Ward Relief Society we are ever grateful and appreciative for your love and acts of compassionate service and kindness extended to our family over the past difficult years. You will be a part of our lives forever.