Vera Jewell Knell Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Vera Jewell Cloward Knell, covenant mother in Zion, died 7 May 2014, at the age of 81, following a brief illness. She was born 29 June 1932 in Payson, Utah to Wells Cloward and Vera Leona Hurst. The mother of ten children, grandmother of fifty-one grandchildren and great grandmother of forty-one great grandchildren (and counting), Jewell’s entire adult life was dedicated to the nurturing, teaching and development of her considerable posterity which was the source of her greatest joy and rejoicing. Jewell was raised in Payson and graduated from Payson High School where she was active in radio, dance, music, speech and drama. In 1954 she graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. That same year she married Lee Campbell Knell in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to whom she was married for 52 years until his death in 2006. Jewell was a life-long and faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She had been active in the American Association of University Women, the Women’s Architectural League of Utah, the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Tamiris literary group. She was an avid BYU sports and Utah Jazz fan. Jewell is survived by her brother Earnest Weldon Howard, Payson, UT; sister Mary Estelle (Neal) Porter, Payson, UT; brother-in-law Jack Knell (Ginny) Los Altos, CA; sister-in-law Claudia Knell, Provo, UT; children Rebecca Stum (Richard), Mt. Pleasant, UT; Scott C. Knell (Kari) North Potomac, MD; Roger C. Knell (Allison) Orem, UT; Andrea Draper (Nels) Eagle Mountain, UT; Julie Magleby (Mark), Provo, UT; Lydia Jarman (Sam), Provo, UT; Emily Smith (Stan), Provo, UT; Todd Knell (Emilee), Provo, UT; Mary Purser (Stanford), Draper, UT; Abraham Knell (Gretchen), Provo, UT; forty-eight grandchildren and forty-one great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Lee Campbell Knell, sisters Ellen Marie Cloward and Ethel May Howard, brothers Walter Clifton Howard and Larry Lanford Howard and grandchildren Michael Draper, Hal Mark Magleby II and Olivia Jarman. Funeral services will be held Saturday 10 May 2014 at the Pleasant View 9th Ward Chapel, 2445 North 650 East, Provo, at 11:00 am preceded by a viewing from 9:00 to 10:30 am. Interment in East Lawn Memorial Hills, 4800 North 650 East, Provo. Funeral Directors: Utah Valley Mortuary.

Vera Jewell Knell

June 29, 1932 - May 7, 2014

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