Betty S Elliott

Graveside Services will be held Friday, March 20 at 1:30pm

Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park

3401 S Highland Dr.

SLC UT 84106

There will be no viewing or gathering before or after the services due to abundant caution encourage by State, Local and Church Leaders.

If you are at all compromised by health issues or are over the age of 60 we encourage you to be cautious and remain home and remember Betty Sue Elliott as she has always been; a humble, peaceful, lovely and obedient follower our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Due to the fluid nature of group gatherings, If you Plan on attending, send a note of RSVP to:

e-mail [email protected] or text to 435 901-2771

So, we could contact you with any further changes.

Betty Sue Elliott passed away early on the morning of Sunday, March 8, 2020, just short of her 96th Birthday.

She was born in Linton, Indiana on April 18, 1924 to Edna and Otis Goines. She was raised in Jasonville, Indiana with three brothers and one sister. She married Moyne Denver (Mike) Elliott in Terre Haute, Indiana and raised their two girls in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Her wonderful husband, a grandson Stephen Tyler Smith, her son-in-law Derrill Dalby and all of her brothers and sister and parents have proceeded her in death.

Her daughters went west to Brigham Young University and succumbed to the temptation to marry, maybe before their parents were ready… Joyce to Jeff Smith, and Lynne to Derrill Dalby. Nine bright and capable grandchildren followed and gave her a new lease on life. And now, there are 16 great grandchildren who have been welcomed into her family of love.

Oh, there is another claimed daughter, Anne Chambers Craig in Canberra, Australia; a foreign exchange student during Joyce’s senior year in High School.

She was just a month short of her 96th Birthday and holds the record for age in the family. (Although there is some talk of an aunt who lived to 101)

She met Mike while roller skating. He was such a charmer on the rink doing all types of tricks that she wondered “just who does he think he is?” But Mike, being persistent and Betty Sue being quite a cute young lady, followed her on the bus and ask for a date. She turned him down and he followed her even more until she gave in and went out with him. It started their 56 years together. He worked hard with the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, and she raised the girls. Also, as a trained beautician she earned extra money doing some of the older ladies hair in Perrysburg. (Known to Lynne and Joyce as “Mom’s Blue Hairs.”)

Mike always had the best garden in the neighborhood, and Betty Sue canned it all. She was a model of charity and spent her life humbly serving others, delivering meals, wonderful pies and cookies to all she knew. If you complemented her cooking, you got more, and you got fat. Just ask her Son-in-Law.

She and Mike, with deep spiritual witness, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The story goes that the Missionaries knocked on the old lady’s house when the Elliott’s lived in a back apartment. The lady of the house sent the Elders around back to the “Young Family.” Sue carefully asked these “boys” why they came around when the men were at work, and being well trained Missionaries, they quickly responded that they would love to meet Mr. Elliott. So, she invited them back that evening, closed the door and wondered what had she done? Mike was not friendly to door-to-door salesman, and she knew he would be angry with them and with her. But he surprised her by inviting the Elders back telling them, “They had answered questions he had struggled with all his life.” They served in many church callings including as Service Workers in the Salt Lake Temple.

She quietly went about building her faith and strengthening others throughout her life and is beloved by her nine Grandchildren and sixteen Great Grandchildren.

None of her family can remember her speaking in Church more than once or twice. She was never the President of anything, and we don’t remember her teaching a class in Sunday School. But she could often be found, even in the last few weeks of her life, with her scriptures on her lap, and her head down firmly focused on the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

She left us a heritage of humility, service, love, hugs, teasing, a quick wit, and a stern rebuke if you deserved it. She followed everything with an increase of love to all those around her. She served the aged, even thou she was one of them. As a 90-year-old, Betty could be seen driving 100 year hold Mable Sundstrom to Church, and giving her massages.

She “saved her money,” and “paid her debts.” Most of us have a vivid memory of trying to buy her lunch, or a bottle of milk and having money stuffed in our pockets before we could reach home. If you drove her to the next town to give her a day out, she would insist on paying for your gas. (A habit that drove most of us crazy)

She lived peacefully, counseled peacefully, testified peacefully, and she entered heaven peacefully. We talked a few days before she died about the simple fact that she had more friends “over there” than here. And that means a LOT of friends! “So.” she declared, “I’m not afraid, I would like to go and get over this darned cough and leave you in peace.”

May we all learn to live in peace and strive to be where she is. It is not hard, just a few sacrifices of things worth sacrificing.

She LOVED you each of you.

In leu of flowers, please make a donation to:

Missionary Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Or

The Park City Peace House

peacehouse.org

A shelter for families in crisis.