Charles Horace Pitt

Our loving father, brother, uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfather Charles passed through the veil on Wednesday, August 25, 2021, to join his wife, parents, other family members, and friends who preceded him.

Charley was born in Fremont, Wisconsin on August 9, 1929 to Horace Benjamin Pitt and Nelda Ruby Sommer. He grew up in Wisconsin, where he loved exploring the beautiful lakes and forests. He loved sports and played football in high school. Throughout his life, he enjoyed hiking and playing tennis with his university colleagues.

He attended The University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied metallurgical engineering. He moved to Richland, Washington to work, where he met missionaries and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Charley served his country in the Korean War, conducting research for the Army. After his military service, he moved to Utah to attend the University of Utah where he earned a Doctorate degree.

Charley met his beautiful wife Margaret Louise Park at a folk-dance class at the University of Utah.  They were married and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 8, 1956.  Their love of dancing continued throughout their married life.  They were blessed with six beautiful

children.  Dad loved to spend time with his family, hiking, backpacking, skiing, and watching U of U basketball games.  He also spent countless hours helping his children with homework, especially in math and chemistry.  He was a great supporter of his children in all their musical, sport, and drama endeavors.  He was a master of puns and “dad jokes,” and many of his children and grandchildren have inherited his love of puns.

He loved his career as a professor of metallurgical engineering at the University of Utah. He was a member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, The American Society of Metals, and The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum Engineers. But most of all, he was a teacher and loved his students.

He was a devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many callings. He and Margaret served a full-time mission in the Madrid, Spain Temple from 1999-2000, and he was a temple worker in the Bountiful temple for many years.

Charley is now reunited with his wife, Margaret, his daughter, Wendy, and his parents. His family will miss him until we see him again – his children Roland, Bill (Stacee), Jennifer Bredthauer (Carl), Rosanne, and Barbara Terrill (Scott), and his sisters, Margaret Mork and Nancy Fraedrich. He is the proud grandfather of 17 and great-grandfather of 27.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday September 3, 2021 at the Val Verda Stake Center, 2651 South 500 West, Bountiful, Utah. Friends and family may visit Friday before the service from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Interment will be at the Bountiful City Cemetery.

The service will be live streamed on the Russon Mortuary & Crematory Facebook page and on this obituary page.