Olive Hale Kotter

OLIVE H. KOTTER

BRIGHAM CITYa" Olive Hale Kotter, 88, passed away Thursday, January 24, 2002 at Peach Tree Assisted Living in Brigham City, Utah.
She was born April 5, 1913 in Groveland, Idaho to Jonathan and Mary Moss Hale a member of a family of eleven.
Olive attended grade school and high school in Blackfoot, Idaho and then college in Pocatello, Idaho and Utah State University. She received her Masters Degree in Home Economics at Iowa State University.
Olive worked for Box Elder County Home Extension Services and also as secretary at the USO. She taught Home Economics at the Intermountain Indian School and for the boys and girls at Box Elder High School. She also taught Kindergarten at Corrine and Bunderson Elementary Schools. She served as a Relief Society President in the 4th Ward and also taught in all of the church organizations.
Olive married William J. Kotter September 29, 1939 in the Logan temple. She helped raise his four children and two foster children whom she loved dearly and they loved and respected her in return. She and her husband, served as Stake Missionaries in the Box Elder Stake and the Box Elder Tabernacle in Brigham City. They then served as full time missionaries in the Central British Mission, after which they served as officiators in the Logan, Ogden and New Zealand Temples. They felt serving in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and setting good examples for their posterity were their greatest accomplishments.
Olive was preceded in death by her parents, husband, William J. in 1995 and his first wife, Almannie, in 1936, daughter, Willa Mae in 1946 at age 15.
Their surviving children and spouses are Alene M. (Dean) Howarth, Brigham City; Jay W. (Donna) Kotter, Brigham City; and Robert H. (Mary Jean) Kotter of Nampa, Idaho. Her Posterity includes 17 grandchildren, one deceased; 52 great-grandchildren, five deceased; and 20 great-great-grandchildren. She is also survived in death by one brother Ezra Hale, Blackfoot, Idaho, one sister Pearl Walker, Lyman, Wyoming and many nieces and nephews.
She loved the gospel and working in the temples of the Lord; she was an avid reader and scriptorium. Her children loved her for her devotion to the gospel, to them and to their father. Her favorite pastimes were reading, gardening and needlework.
We would especially like to thank Catarina and the Peach Tree Staff for the loving care they gave our mother and family. We also express our love to the members of the Harper Ward for all their compassion to Mother.
Funeral services will be Monday, January 28, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. at Myers Mortuary. 205 S. 100 E., Brigham City, UT.
Friends may call Sunday from 6: 00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Monday from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. at the Mortuary.
Interment will be in the Brigham City Cemetery.
VisitationMyers Mortuary - Brigham City
205 South 100 East
Brigham City, UT 84302
January 27, 2002
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
ServiceMyers Mortuary - Brigham City
205 South 100 East
Brigham City, UT 84302
January 28, 2002
11:00 AM
CemeteryBrigham City Cemetery
325 South 300 East
Brigham City, Utah 84302
January 28, 2002