Logan, Utah: As she greets her eternal companion, we celebrate her life as a wife, mother, grandmother and a daughter of God.

LuDene J. Speth was born March 22, 1927 in Cache Valley, Utah, the eight of ten children gifted to Fred and Luella Frank Jensen. She grew up and was schooled in Providence, where by ate 14 she was an accomplished singer and pianist. The day after her sixteenth birthday, March 23, 1943 she married Owen Aikele Speth in the Logan LDS Temple. He died April 26, 1990.

She was a hard working woman who loved being a farmer’s wife and a care-giver to elderly parents-in-law and then her won parents as time passed. The ambition to learn made her a self-taught adult from typing to Dental Assistant with Dr. Jerry Wallace, to intricate handicrafts, and beautiful rhyming poetry. Some of which was published.

After her father-in-law (Dad Speth as she called him) introduced her to the art of genealogy, it became her passion and she spent many hours searching out relatives. Just prior to her passing, she talked of concern about the distant Speth relative and hoped that her temple work would be done. It ended up that she discovered a second cousin from the Jensen side as they shared a room at the Logan Nursing Home. What a joy!

Church work was always a priority throughout her life and she shared much of her love for the Gospel through working in several auxiliaries.

She is survived by a son, Owen Dee Speth, Tooele, Utah; daughter, Bonnie Glee Thomas (Joe), Salt Lake City; two sisters, Dorothy McDonald, Preston, Idaho and Margorie Dailey, Seattle and one brother, Hal Jensen (Norene), Ogden, Utah; fifteen grandchildren and 48 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.

At her request no public viewing will be held. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 22, 2003 at the Allen-Hall Mortuary Chapel, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah with interment at the Providence Cemetery.