and Commodore Huff. Anna was the oldest child, and loved to boss and mother around her
younger brother Buford (Eva) Huff and younger sister Jean (Huff) Francis.
Mom and her siblings had many wonderful adventures in the “backwoods” of Kentucky,
roaming the “holler” and creekbed looking for bugs and all the mischief they could get in. During
one of her adventurous episodes, when she was 8 years old, she fell off the running board of
her grandpa Frank Click’s truck and was accidentally run over. This caused a pelvic fracture
and multiple internal injuries, necessitating multiple surgeries, many months in the hospital, and
an awesome cast that went from her armpits to her toes. This led to her being a year behind in
school.
Once mom entered high school, she wanted to catch up from being a year behind, and
made the decision to go to the boarding high school at Caney Creek, in Knott County, Kentucky
where all of the students worked on campus to help pay for their tuition. It was my mom’s senior
year, and her love of showing off her high school ring, that caught my dad’s eye. In 1957, she
met our father, Donald Breeding. While they were both students at Caney Creek, mom and dad
started secretly passing notes (the school did not allow their male and female students to talk to
one another).
They officially began dating a few months after the note passing started and they were in
so much love that my dad would walk 22.1 miles one way just to see his “sweetheart” for a date
night on some of the weekends when she was home.
On June 17, 1961, our parents were married. Our father was in the Air Force at this time
and so dad was moved around to multiple locations and mom often followed him, never wanting
to be away from “her man” for very long. It was during this time in the Air Force that our father
had been taught of the Restoration of the gospel by two fellow servicemen and he joined the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When he returned on leave dad told mom about
joining the church, the missionaries came over to the house. Mom says she had nothing else to
do, so she read the whole Book of Mormon within a week. It didn’t take long for her to be
baptized. Mom and dad were sealed for time and all eternity in the Mesa, Arizona Temple on
September 13, 1966.
Dad had been told that mom couldn’t have any children because of her accident. To
prove how amazing she was, our mom had 4 perfect children of her heart, Charles (Renee)
Breeding, John (Kristine) Breeding, Donna (Mike) Staker, and last of all came the great finale,
Daniela (Shane) Beeder. She raised each of her children with so much love that each believed
that they were her favorite child. She goes to her grave keeping secret the name of her favorite
child... and her actual weight. We will be sure to discuss both in detail during every family
gathering from hereon.
Mom loved being a mother and would use any excuse to see her 4 kids, 15 grandkids
(Justin, Colton, Michelle, Ashley, Rachel, Mikey, Krissy, Sara, Hyrum, Elizabeth, Tyler, Buddy,
Kevin, Sheila and Lauren) and 6 great-grandchildren (+1 on the day she passed, that we are
sure she would have smothered with love). Food was usually involved with these excuses
because she loved cooking and we love eating. She was an amazing cook, but trying to teach
her kids how to cook with her southern recipe of “a little bit of this” and “a little bit of that”, has
ensured that her daughters will never correctly replicate her biscuits and gravy recipe. With her
passing, the family may also never correctly identify the frozen foods hoarded in her freezer.
On November 20, 2020 after a courageous 14 day struggle in the hospital at Intermountain Medical Center with COVID-19, she asked to come home. She came home and died with “her man” by her side. She was currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Senior Missionary in her own Jordan North Stake in West Valley City. She was so happy to be a representative of the church that she loved so much.
In lieu of flowers, she requested that donations instead be placed towards the missionary fund.
The funeral and viewing will be on December 1, 2020 at the LDS church located on
Falcon Street in West Valley City . The viewing and services will be family only--due to COVID
restrictions--but the services will be broadcasted for those who loved her to watch on Facebook
which will be available following the services hosted through the Valley View Memorial Park and Funeral Home.
Mom leaves behind a very huge gap in this world, that we will try to fill with kindness,
love and fried foods, just like she taught us. Our family would like to thank all of the staff at
Intermountain Medical Center for the loving care they provided to her during her stay and their
giant hustle to get her home so she could pass away with “her man” by her side, just like she
wanted.
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