Jetta Briggs Obituary (1927 – 2022) – Bountiful, UT

Our beloved mom, Jetta Walton Wooden Briggs, returned to her heavenly residence on February 4, 2022, reuniting along with her expensive husband, daughter and plenty of different family members. Mom was born August 31, 1927, the youngest of 5 kids, to Cotton Chase and Mary Amelia Walton Wooden. She grew up on their Woods Cross, Utah truck backyard farm the place she started the lengthy summer time days at 5:00 a.m. choosing greens and fruits. Mother recalled that when she was younger, she didn’t all the time assume this was the best job. However as she regarded again on it, she was really grateful to her father and mom for instructing her the worth of exhausting work. Her household loved the winter months collectively in Lengthy Seashore, California. One among Mother’s favourite recollections of Lengthy Seashore was strolling down the lengthy pier along with her household, consuming an enormous popcorn ball that her father purchased for every of the kids.

Mom graduated from Davis Excessive College after which attended the College of Utah. She met Grant Briggs of Bountiful Utah. They fell in love and married within the Salt Lake Metropolis Temple on Might 16, 1947. By means of the years, Mother and Dad lived in Bountiful, Utah and somewhere else in Idaho. They have been an exquisite and very hard-working group, all the time supporting and loving one another as they determinedly overcame their many challenges in life collectively. Mother’s coronary heart was damaged when her everlasting sweetheart handed away nearly twenty-four years in the past and he or she missed him deeply.

Mother lovingly nurtured her six kids. She taught us by phrase and instance life’s most essential classes together with religion and belief in our Heavenly Father and Savior, love, service to others and exhausting work and plenty of others. She was a wonderful homemaker and particularly beloved stitching, typically awakening at a really early hour to stitch clothes for her household. She loved cooking and we have been privileged to take a seat collectively across the kitchen desk every evening as a household consuming her scrumptious meals. Every Christmas we regarded ahead to the brand new pajamas that she had sewn for us and her fruitcake with gumdrops. In the summertime months, she loved rising a vegetable backyard, preserving a number of the harvest, and all the time sharing the greens with others.

Mother and Dad continued to serve and bless our lives after we left residence and have been all the time there to assist and encourage us in each attainable means. They beloved their grandchildren and by no means missed a baptism/affirmation, mission farewell/report, marriage ceremony or some other essential event. Mother had a young spot in her coronary heart for infants. She typically expressed that one of many thrills of her life was with the ability to spend the primary week of every of her 19 new child grandchildren’s lives with them. Not solely did she love and take care of the brand new child, however she additionally would cook dinner, clear and have a tendency the opposite grandchildren within the household – she was really superb!

Due to the great folks she related to, she loved her job of 23 years because the secretary on the Pocatello LDS Institute of Faith.

Mom blessed and touched the lives of numerous people as she served devotedly in quite a few instructing and presidency positions within the organizations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She loved serving in Lambda Delta Sigma, an LDS Sorority on school campuses. The calling she beloved probably the most was that of a temple ordinance employee. She served within the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple for twenty-four years and the Bountiful Utah Temple for nearly 10 years. She had a certain testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints which she conveyed by each her phrases and instance. She dearly beloved her Heavenly Father and Savior.

She is survived by her kids Sharon Briggs, Caren (Bryce) Clinger, Elaine (Mark) Chessler, Rene Reid, and Alan (Alison) Briggs, 19 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in demise by her husband, A. Grant Briggs, her daughter, Shelley Briggs Anderson and her mother and father and 4 siblings.

A celebration of Mom’s life will likely be held Saturday, February 12, at 11:00 a.m. on the Bountiful Tabernacle, 55 S Major Avenue, Bountiful, UT. A viewing will likely be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. previous to the service. Reminiscences could also be shared within the “Guestbook” tab on this obituary web page.

Providers will likely be streamed reside on the Russon Brothers Mortuary Fb web page and on this obituary web page. The reside stream will start about quarter-hour previous to the service and will likely be posted beneath.

We want to thank the workers of Legacy Home of Bountiful for his or her loving care and repair to our mom. We’re additionally grateful to Aspire House Well being and Hospice for his or her wonderful medical care and devotion.