Rachel LaDonna Gaddie Omer

Rachel LaDonna Gaddie Omer
1925 ~ 2010

Rachel LaDonna Gaddie Omer passed away on May 14, 2010.

She was born on April 23, 1925 in Sugar City, Idaho to Sherwood Clark and Ethel Zimmerman Gaddie.

During her childhood years her father’s position with the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company provided her family with the opportunity to live in Chinook, Montana and Bellingham, Washington where she developed a life-long love for the beauties of the Northwest. A final transfer brought the family to Salt Lake City where she attended Irving Junior High School and Granite High School. Following graduation from high school and acceptance to the University of Utah, LaDonna was employed at Fort Douglas with the U.S. Army-G2 and the U.S. Bureau of Mines District Office in Salt Lake City.

In 1945 LaDonna married Stanley August Omer, a young U.S. Naval Officer serving in the Pacific Theater. Their marriage in the Salt Lake Temple culminated a war-time courtship which grew into a happy and productive family life in the Holladay area.

LaDonna was a devoted wife, mother and homemaker. Her interests were varied and extensive, including an appreciation for the visual and performing arts and the beauty of God’s creations. She always felt blessed to have wonderful friends and neighbors. She loved to learn and her family benefited from her inquisitive mind and spiritual understanding. Always optimistic and steady, she faced life’s challenges with cheerfulness and courage. As a life-long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she served faithfully in many callings and developed a deeply rooted faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Craig and Cathy Omer; her daughter Marci Omer; her son James Omer; her grandchildren and their spouses, Ryan and Melisa Omer, Amy and Matt Walker, Elizabeth and Russell Packer, and Scott and Rachel Omer; and her great-grandchildren Lindsay, Joshua, Emily Jane, Morgan and Sadie Omer; Britton, Whitney, Jack and Wyatt Walker; and Kate, Abby and Carson Packer and her sister, Patricia Stevenson. She is preceded in death by her husband and her parents.

A service will be held on May 20, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. at the Olympus First Ward, 4100 S. Camille Street (2522 E.), Holladay, Utah. Viewings will be held on Wednesday, July 19, 2010 from 6:00 -8:00 p.m. at Cottonwood Mortuary, 4670 Highland Drive, Holladay, Utah; and Thursday, prior to the service, 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Interment will follow at the Holladay Memorial Cemetery, 4900 Memory Lane.