Constance Myrl Olsen Biehler Wootton

Constance Myrl Olsen Biehler Wootton’s beautiful blue eyes closed while her spiritual eyes opened to her heavenly home on June 18, 2022. Born September 28, 1931, in Salt Lake City to Gerald and Constance Olsen and raised in the avenues with an idyllic childhood where love and family, especially a close relationship with her only sibling, Richard, permeated all of her growing up years. Her parents specifically encouraged her love of music, and she started playing the violin at age 4 and was proud to perform at the World’s Fair and the Hollywood Bowl as a child.

She graduated from West High School in June 1948 and attended LDS business college where she was highly involved in the Lambda Delta Sigma sorority. She married Bruce Biehler in the Salt Lake temple in 1952, later divorced.  She married Wesley Wootton in 1966, later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.  After she was widowed, she married Vern A. Carter in 2012, divorced in 2016.

Connie’s most enduring quality was her love for her family.  She loved all of her posterity, and many others she opened her home to over the years, including two official and several unofficial foster children. She worked hard to unite and love a blended family.  She was a “yours, mine, ours and theirs” mother who nurtured many. Her family was both her hobby and her career.  Everything she did was with the goal of strengthening family ties in mind.

Connie loved the Polynesian culture and felt a special affinity for it, throwing many luaus and learning different styles of dance she then passed on to her children.  She also loved Disneyland and would often “end up there”, even when it wasn’t the stated destination. She was a great tour guide to both Disneyland and the national parks, especially for family from England. She loved going boating and camping. She set up a Christmas village every year to the delight of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Connie gave years of service to her children and grandchildren, attending all their events. She loved being a season ticket holder to Centerpoint Theater. In short, Connie made life fun. She planned and hosted numerous holidays and family get-togethers. She would leave treats under pillows, whoop as loudly as anyone on roller coasters, and ride even the sketchiest rides at Lagoon and the state fair. She spent her last days telling everyone to remember just how much she loves them and singing the family song.

Connie’s testimony of and membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was an example to all her posterity. She held many callings over the years, from scouting to stake dance director, but the one that held her heart was primary. She put her all into teaching the children, spending countless hours creating visual aids and engaging lessons because she felt that teaching children the gospel was the most important calling. She was also proud of her service as a Bountiful Temple worker. Constance, like her name suggests, was sure and constant to the end, carrying her testimony as a torch held high for those who follow in her footsteps.

Connie is mother to Bryan (Laurel) Biehler, Brenda Biehler, Bret Leigh Biehler, Barry (Lisa) Wootton, Paul Wootton, Angela (Joel) Wootton Sandorf, and Gerald (Andrea) Wootton. She has a special relationship with her only sister-in-law, Milene Olsen and with her nieces and nephews. She has 20 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren with more on the way. She is preceded in death by her husband Wesley Wootton, her brother Richard Olsen and her sons Bret Leigh Biehler and Paul Wootton.

The family would like to thank all of Creekside Living Center and Renew Hospice, especially Marina Fairbanks and Ronda Hart, for their care on Connie’s behalf.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 24, 2022, at the Centerville 11^th Ward, 270 North 300 East, Centerville, Utah where an Aloha-style viewing will be held Thursday evening from 6:30-8:00 p.m. A viewing will also be held on Friday morning from 9:00-9:45 a.m. at the church prior to services.  The family requests that masks be worn.

Services will be streamed live on the Russon Brothers Mortuary Facebook page and on this obituary page.  The live stream will begin about 10-15 minutes prior to the service and will be posted below.