Miriam Annette Sconberg Mann

Centerville, UT – In her 91st year, our mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Miriam Mann passed away at home of natural causes early in the morning of September 25, 2021.

Born in Salt Lake City January 29, 1931, Miriam was the fourth of six children in the family of Catherine and Vernon Sconberg. She attended Davis High School and married Grant Eldredge Mann on the 7^th of October, 1948, in the Salt Lake Temple. Miriam and Grant were the parents of four children: Marjorie (Brent Madsen); Lawrence (William Anton Dukstein); Annette (Kent Chambers); and Richard (Ranae Page).

An intrepid gardener all her life with a natural gift for fine landscaping, Miriam was known for her roses, lilies, and tall blue delphiniums. In springtime, she was frequently seen on her hands and knees, mixing peat moss, steer manure, and bone meal into her soils before planting hundreds of petunias, zinnias, geraniums, lobelias, sweet william, and basket-of-gold.   In summer, she found the taste of fresh, home-grown tomatoes a special delight, and to her dying day she managed to have robust tomato vines thriving just outside her door.  Every October, while listening to General Conference on a radio she’d bring outside, Miriam had dozens of tulip bulbs to get into the ground ahead of the first frost.

In 1992, Miriam and Grant served a one-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Jose, California. Miriam often recalled that year as an especially choice time making new friends with members and throngs of young missionaries. The following year, while visiting their daughter Marjorie in Virginia, Miriam and Grant accepted an unanticipated invitation to serve as ordinance workers in the Washington, D.C. Temple. Miriam remembered this year-long experience as a “glorious” time.

After Grant’s death 2003, Miriam became a volunteer greeter and hostess at the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, a position of service she cherished for the next six years.

As Miriam entered her 80s and her strength declined, she first enjoyed five comfortable years at Annette and Kent’s home, then spending her final years in the home of her son, Richard, where he and Ranae helped with her care. Her aides, Michelle and Andrea, blessed her life immensely with their caregiving and kindness. She also received special attention and help via hospice care, which she appreciated greatly.

Funeral services for Miriam will take place on the morning of Friday, the 1^st of October at the Centerville Canyon View Stake Center – 2110 North Main Street, Centerville, Utah.

Viewing begins at 9:45 a.m. followed by funeral services at 11 a.m.