Leah Mae Warner Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Leah Mae Warner 1943-2017 Leah died Monday morning on May 1st, 2017 at Orchard Park Care Center. She had been living there for several years. She was born 29 March 1943 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California to Seth LeGrande Warner and Ona Mae Rainbolt. She was their only daughter. Steven LeGrande was born first 7 December 1940. And Richard Stanley was the baby of the family born 24 October 1945. She was never married and had no children. She loved all her nieces and two nephews. She went to Beethoven Elementary, Mark Twain Jr. High and Venice High School. Then on to Brigham Young University where she graduated with a degree in Elementary Education. She served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the South Andes Mission, but served mainly in Peru. She learned Spanish and loved to share it with anyone she could. As a member of the church she served in several positions. She mainly loved being Primary President in the Mar Vista Ward, Santa Monica Stake. She worked several different places, but found her niche working at Beehive Clothing mills. She started working as a cashier in the Los Angeles store by the temple. Then a manager and then a manager trainer traveling the country training new managers and employees how to use the new computer cash registers and how to control their stock. She had several hobbies, mainly genealogy. She started that in her teens and never stopped. One of the things she enjoyed doing was writing biographies of her ancestors. She would find where they were born or lived and look up the history of the town to add background stories to their biographies. She also painter with oils, sewed, cooked, knitted and darned, some crochet and don’t forget reading. She moved to Orem, Utah after her father died. She lived 28 years with her brother Richard his wife Jodie, daughter Kimberly and sons Richard Seth (Ricky) and David. She live a year or two elsewhere in Orem, and then when it was apparent she could not live safely and needed care she moved to “Our House Care Center”, then later with Orchard Park Care Center. She was proceeded in death by her father Seth 1914-1983, mother Ona Mae 1914-1995, her brother Steven 1940-2002. Her nephew Ricky 1972-1986. And niece Susan Lorraine 1963-1963. She is survived by her brother Richard, his wife Jodie, niece Kimberly (Richard Brown), and nephew David Boice (Sharla Johnson). Stevens ex-wife Marlaine Jeanette Elsner Norton, with daughters Sheryl Lynn Warner Muller, Sandra Laverne Warner Elrod, Bobbie Anette Norton Close, and ex-wife Connie Lee Crye with daughters Stacy Le Ann Warner Dominguez, and Michele Rene Warner Yost. Many great nieces and nephews, and a few great great nieces and nephews. There will be no funeral, but a graveside (family only) service just before burial in the Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah, at noon on Friday, May 5th. Funeral Directors: Utah Valley Mortuary.

Leah Mae Warner

March 29, 1943 - May 1, 2017

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