Marjorie Gray Wagstaff

Marjorie Morgan Gray Wagstaff 1914-2011 If youth is a gift and age is a work of art, Then Marjorie was a Masterpiece. Marjorie, our 97 year-old Masterpiece, left us in the early morning of May 29, 2011. She was born April 19, 1914 to Nicholas Groesbeck and Ethel Tate Morgan. She grew up in the area of 15th & 15th in Salt Lake City and attended East High School and graduated from the M & M School of Beauty located at that time on 3rd South and State Street. She worked at the Hale Beauty Shop before opening Marjories Beauty Shop on Emerson and 15th East.

Marjorie married her sweetheart, Charles Gray in 1934 and together they raised a family of 3 boys and 2 girls. Their marriage was later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple and in 1981 the two of them served an LDS Mission to the Liberty Jail Visitors Center in Missouri; an experience both of them felt was one of the great highlights of their life. Marjorie served in many Church capacities, including Primary Stake Secretary, a calling she dearly loved. She was also a devoted member of DUP.

After the death of her husband, she was fortunate to have another good man come into her life and in January 1986, she and William D. Wagstaff were married in Hawaii. They spent 15 wonderful years together.

Marjorie was preceded in death by her husbands, mother and father, her sisters, Dorothy Hollberg, Helen Perry and her brother Nicholas Morgan, Jr. She is survived by her five children: Karen (Leland) Matthews , Jerry Gray, John(Diana) Gray, Nancy (Clifford) Porter, Jim (Judy) Gray.and 16 grandchildren, 47 great grandchildren. She is also survived by her step-children, Lynn Matthes (Rudy), Cathy Wagstaff, Lanny Wagstaff, Lloyd Wagstaff and Raymond Wagstaff, 6 step-grandchildren and 1 step great grandchild.

The last 3 years Marjorie lived at Federal Heights Care Center where she was loved by all and was cared for by many wonderful nurses and attendants. She brought life and light into many lives as they did hers. She was always ready for a game of Spite & Malice, Farkel or anything else fun. She lit up a room with her quick wit and winning personality.

We love you Mom you made our lives so good and gave us so much love. You were a strong soldier and showed us how to live.

Funeral services will be held Friday, June 3, 2011 at 12 oclock noon in the Foothill 7th Ward, 2215 East Roosevelt Avenue, Salt Lake City A viewing will also be held on Thursday evening, June 2, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Russon Bros, Salt Lake Mortuary, 255 South 2nd East, and prior to services at the Ward from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Interment will be at Salt Lake City Cemetery, Online guestbook available at www.russonmortuary.com