Bethine Sax Bernhisel

Bethine Sax Bernhisel passed away at her home in Bountiful, March 13, 2015. Born July 7, 1927 in Mackay, Idaho to Ernest Alois Sax and LuDean Olsen Sax. She was the oldest of five children. She was raised in Eureka, Utah, where she attended Tintic High School and made life-long friendships that continued with yearly reunions that she was instrumental in putting together.  Bethine attended and graduated from LDS School of Nursing in 1948. During her senior year, she met and married Harris G. Bernhisel, in Elko, Nevada. They eloped on a bus and shared a banana split. (Marriage later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.) She later attended the University of Utah and received her Bachelors of Nursing and attended the University of Minnesota.  The Bernhisel family spent many years in Minnesota, where Bethine made wonderful friends and had their oldest four children.
Bethine's family came back and settled in Bountiful, Utah. She was continually involved in community and church service. There was not anything she couldn't or learn to do. She was an amazing seamstress, cook, baker, entertainer and also a master tile setter, a perfectionist from start to finish.  She enjoyed the music and the arts,  from learning to oil paint to attending the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City annually for many decades with friends.  She was a great believer in education and was always helping her children and grand children continue to learn.  She also enjoyed playing golf, tennis and going skiing, even though she was never able to achieve perfection in these activities. Preceded in death by: parents, son Rhet Bernhisel, granddaughters Nikkole Bernhisel and Cassandra Andrus and brother Ernest V. Sax.  Survived by husband Harris, children; Marc (Julee), Ann, Paul (Staci), Todd, Gretchen (Ryan) Wilcox. 14 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, sisters
Jo Ann Manley, Marian (Doug) Whiting, Jeanine (Curt) Jensen.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, March 23, 2015 at the North Canyon 7th Ward, 3350 South 100 East, Bountiful. A viewing will be held Sunday evening from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Russon Brothers Mortuary, 295 North Main, Bountiful and Monday morning 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. at the church prior to services. Interment-Salt Lake City Cemetery.