Adelaide Conrad

Biography

Adelaide May Kingdon Conrad
Adelaide May Kingdon Conrad, 91, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 17, 2012. She had experienced failing health for six weeks before her passing.
Adelaide was born May 18, 1920, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Hyrum R. and Adelaide Lees Kingdon. She attended public schools in Salt Lake City and graduated from West High School in 1937. She continued education at the University of Utah and received an Associates Degree; then she completed a three-year course of study at the W. H. Groves Latter-day Saints Hospital School of Nursing in 1944 and became a Registered Nurse.
During summer vacation as a teenager, Adelaide met her sweetheart William H. (Bill) Conrad in 1935. They married March 26, 1945, in McGill, Nevada, while he was on a 15-day leave from the Army Air Corps. They were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple in February of 1962, and remained married for 58 years until his death in 2003. She is also preceded in death by her parents and one great-grandson.
Adelaide is survived by her sister – Fae Bentley of Salt Lake City, Utah; her children – Connie Leuck of Garden Grove, California, Hyrum (Terry) Conrad of Rexburg, Idaho, and Shauna (Jim) Pitton of Newport Beach, California; as well as 14 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at Russon Brothers Mortuary in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, February 25, 2012, at 11 a.m. Viewing will be for an hour before the service. Interment: Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Online guestbook at www.russonmortuary.com