Paul Royall

Paul Fielding Royall 1918 ? 2006

Paul Fielding Royall passed away June 3, 2006. He was born October 31, 1918 to Joseph Lucian and Hazel Melvina Rowe Royall in Salt Lake City, Utah. Attended Riverside Elementary, Jordan Junior High and graduated from West High School. He received his teaching certificate from Northwestern University and his management certificate from the American Management Association. Paul worked for KSL for seventeen years in sales and broadcasting. He served as anchor for the news, including special broadcasts like the first television broadcast of the Days of 47 Parade, sporting events and remotes of big bands at Salt Air, Coconut Grove, Hotel Utah, and Fort Douglas. He taught at Henagar?s Business College and served on the Salt Lake City School Board for eight years. He also served on the Hansen Planetarium and Salt Lake Library Boards.

Paul was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served a mission to the Southern States and was later called as president of the South Carolina District. Married Eula Lee Dean from Charleston, South Carolina in the Salt Lake Temple in 1941. They had three sons and one daughter. As a young man, he was a guide on Temple Square, a temple worker, and a traveling companion with President Joseph Fielding Smith. He was called to start the guided tours on Welfare Square and later called as the General Secretary of the Genealogical Society and General Priesthood Correlation Committee. He traveled throughout the world on church assignments with various general authorities. Paul taught courses for the Church Education System, BYU Education week and the ?Know Your Religion Series?. He served as a high counselor in the Pioneer and Salt Lake Stakes and various other leadership positions on the stake and ward levels. Paul recorded cassettes of the standard works for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as recording for the visually impaired. At the time of his passing, he was serving as a sealer in the Salt Lake Temple.

Survived by his wife of 65 years, Eula Lee Dean, sisters, Hazel Royall Vaughn and Elvie Royall Leary, three sons; Paul Fielding Joyce Gregory, W. David Sheila Balmforth, Philip A. Lauri Burton, twenty grandchildren and twenty seven great-grandchildren. Proceeded in death by his daughter Dianne Royall Olson Donald Olson, brothers; Stephen J., Daniel R., Joseph L. Royall Jr., and sister Betty Jean.

Funeral Services will be held on Friday, June 9, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at the Ensign Stake Center, 135 ?A? St.. Friends may call on Thursday, June 8, 2006 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Russon Brothers Salt Lake Mortuary, 255 South 200 East. And prior to services at the ward from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, 4th avenue and ?N? street. Online guest book and directional maps available at www.russonmortuary.com