LuDene J. Speth
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.