Norma Ann Steadman Lund

Norma Ann Steadman Lund returned to her Father in Heaven on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.

She was born January 29, 1936 in Salt Lake City to Rhoda Hartle and William Stanley Steadman. She grew up in a modest West Jordan home with her three sisters, Marge, Sharon, and Yvonne, and one brother, Rex.

Norma married Hugh James (Jim) Lund in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 3, 1960 and they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple the May 11, 1962. They later moved to Bountiful where they lived for 51 years until Jim’s passing on May 13, 2012. Together, they raised three beautiful children including one son, Bart, and two daughters, Sue and Kathy.

Coming from humble beginnings, Norma worked hard to ensure that her children never went without and made a big deal of holidays and birthdays. Christmas was especially festive and over-the-top. She also taught her children that you didn’t need much in life but you must care for what you have. She had an incredible work ethic and passed that value on to her children.

Norma took pride in her well-kept home and worked diligently to provide a healthy, wholesome life for her family, including piles of vitamins by their dinner plates and fresh-baked bread from her own ground wheat. Her children fondly remember her many hand-written notes with gentle corrections, reminders and words of encouragement.

She delighted in her children’s talents but was very humble about her own. She was quick-witted and humorous but so quiet that she often caught people by surprise with her humor. She loved the outdoors and enjoyed the annual ward campouts on the Green and Snake Rivers. She also enjoyed a bowling league for years and playing pinochle with family and friends, which became a New Year’s Eve tradition. Although she may not have instigated any antics, she was always up for an adventure.

Norma was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints her entire life and loved serving with the children in the Primary. She had a wonderful testimony of the gospel and took every opportunity to share her love and the gospel with others, especially her children and grandchildren.

She attended LDS Business College and could type 125 words per minute and take short-hand better than anyone. She worked her whole life, mostly for the government, including many years at the end of her career for the FBI. She was reserved in nature but always had a twinkle in her eye that belied the stories she told grandkids of FBI stake-outs and stings.

Above all, Norma was loving, kind and patient. She would drop everything to listen or help in any way she could, and had a way of making her loved ones feel like her only priority.

She is survived by her sisters, Margorie (Gary) Manharth, Sharon (Leroy) Hansen and Yvonne Elmore, as well as her children, Sue (Barry) Bean, Bart (Amy) Lund, and Kathy Johanson, 16 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren, all of whom were the joy of her life.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Rhoda and William Steadman, her husband, Jim Lund, her brother, Rex Steadman, her son-in-law, R. Todd Powell, and granddaughter, Berkeley Johanson.

The family wishes to thank Country Care Assisted Living and Horizon Hospice for the care and respect show to our mother in her final days.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 2, 2018 at the Bountiful 7th Ward Chapel, 1250 South Main Street, Bountiful, Utah. Her viewing will begin at 10:00 a.m. and conclude with a family prayer. Her funeral will begin at 11:00 a.m. Graveside services will follow at Memorial Lake View Mortuary and Cemetery in Bountiful, 1640 East Lakeview Drive Bountiful, UT 84010.