Jenni Warinner

January 20, 1982 - September 24, 2018

Jennifer Jeannine Smith Warinner joined her loved ones in heaven on Monday, September 24, 2018. She passed from this mortal existence following complications from cardiac arrest. She was under the care and supervision of the medical staff at Emerson Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Jenni was born in Riverton, Utah on January 20, 1982 to Taylor John and Coralyn Cook Smith. She joined their family as the fifth of ten children. She was a peacemaker and nurturer in the home. She married Peter Q. Warinner in the Salt Lake Temple on September 6, 2003. She is the mother of five beautiful and strong children. Jenni loved children and was a second mother to all her younger siblings. She earned a BA degree in English literature and a MA degree in children’s literature from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Her love of books - especially children books - and her amazing ability to write will be a cherished testimony to her amazing talents and abilities not fully allowed to bloom in this life. She kept detailed journals of every detail of her life, her children’s births, her joys, her sorrows. They are now recorded in Heaven. As a woman of great faith, Jenni fulfilled all her roles as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend with grace and charity. She remained true and faithful to her strong testimony of the Savior and His gospel through the end of her life. She inspires in us the ability to do the same. Jenni is survived by her husband Peter Q. Warinner, her beautiful children, Eleanor Grace, Benjamin Grant, Lucy Ann, Gloria Jane, Margaret Adelle, her parents, Taylor and Coralyn Smith, as well as her siblings, Jared (Rachael) Smith, Levi (Aubrie) Smith, Spencer Smith, Cyndi (Brian) Langford, Peter (Lindsey) Smith, Heather (Jeremy) Young, Cameron (Britney) Smith, Aimee Pike, and Linda (Willis) Quezada. Jenni’s whole purpose and joy was to be with her children and nurture and love them. She trusted in her Savior and Heavenly Father to “fight [her] battles” (D & C 105:14). In her last conversation with her mother she said, “All I ever wanted was to be a mother like you. It will all be worth it.” Funeral Services will be held Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at the Historic White Church for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at 31 W. Maple Street, Mapleton, Utah. Friends and family are invited to a viewing prior to the services from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Interment in the Mapleton Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Utah Valley Mortuary.