Rosa "Maggie" Magdalene Bach

My dear “little mother” passed into eternity at her home on January 29th, 2019 from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.   God graced her with 95 long years on this earth. Mother was a survivor who always had a strong will to live. She enjoyed people and was a friend to many.  I always knew my mother’s love for me and she always put me first in her life. 

Mother’s journey began in Earlington, Kentucky where she was one of 10 children all of whom have proceeded her in death except for her youngest brother Ernest Lee Walton of Chula Vista, CA.  She was raised during the Great Depression in rural Kentucky and knew extreme hardship and many sorrows associated with that era. 

Her mother Cannie Mae died when Maggie was 17 leaving her and her father William Henry Walton to raise her two younger siblings, Hazel and Ernest Lee.  Maggie was a very loving and devoted caregiver who subsequently moved to Idaho with both of her younger siblings. 

Little Mother later moved to Utah where she met and married my father Keith Allen Bach on April 19th, 1948 who was working at the Union Pacific Railroad.  They were later sealed in the Logan LDS Temple on May 24th, 1963.

In 1954 they adopted my brother William Allen “Billy” and then later adopted me in April of 1958.  Our little family made our home in Kaysville from that time on, with a short time spent in Southern California before my father’s passing in August of 2009.

Mother is survived by her devoted daughter Nancy Bach-Weber and her nephew who was like a son to her, Ronald (Shirley) Walton of Las Vegas, NV and her beloved niece, Rita (Dennis) Smith of Pingree, ID, and her son-in-law Paul Weber and her loyal dachshunds Sunny Schnitzel and Bachers of Temple, TX.  Preceded in death by son Billy.

During the last 12 years of her life my mother fought the good fight against Alzheimer’s.  Many thanks to the staff at Barrington Place in Clinton, UT.  Also a special thanks to Holly and Jenny from Summit Home Health and Hospice. Also thanks to our church family at the True Vine Baptist Church in Kaysville where she recommitted her life to Christ and was re-baptized in 2017.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at the Russon Farmington Mortuary, 1941 North Main St., Farmington, UT.  A viewing will be held from 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. prior to the services at the mortuary.  Interment at Kaysville City Cemetery.