Rosemary Bennett Fletcher, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, musician, compassionate volunteer, crossword puzzle whiz and visiting teacher extraordinaire, died on April 6, 2009 of ovarian cancer.
Rosemary was a woman who gathered friends of every age and carried them with her wherever she went especially via her weekly family letter. Her annual Thanksgiving card went to hundreds, always with a personal note.
She opened her home to anyone who needed a place to stay, took a keen interest in their lives and never forgot a single detail. She held passionate opinions about everything from politics to religion, music, movies and the latest fashions and was never reticent about sharing them.
Rosemary was born smiling on April 10, 1925, the second child of Wallace Foster Bennett and Frances Grant Bennett and talked very shortly thereafter.
At East High School in Salt Lake City, Rosemary joined many clubs, was on the yearbook staff, sang in the A Capella and was secretary of the Girls Association. At the University of Utah, Chi Omega Sorority sisters became her dearest companions, some of whom still meet monthly for lunch.
After two years at the U, Rosemary went to Boston University to study music and fell in love with a shy, handsome MIT student named Robert C. Fletcher. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on Sept. 6, 1945 and made the East Coast their home for most of the next 50 years. Rosemary surrounded her eight children with love, laughter and music from Broadway to classical.
While folding laundry, she talked on the phone for hours, trying to make the world better one conversation at a time. A devoted, lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rosemary served in many leadership positions but rarely did things by the book because she treasured people over programs.
She prayed and even wrangled with Mitt Romney while serving as a stake Relief Society President in Boston. She had a special talent with teens. She offered them candid assessments of life's problems, yet provided spiritual solutions in language they could understand.
In Salt Lake City, Boston, Summit (New Jersey) and Albuquerque, she embraced people who felt left out and loved her neighbors of other faiths and no faith. After her children were grown, she volunteered with Meals on Wheels, read to the blind, and played piano by ear for the first grade at Bennion School in Salt Lake City.
Rosemary is survived by her husband of nearly 64 years; children Kathryn (Robert) Fowles, Robert Bennett (Gail) Fletcher, Peggy (Mike) Stack, Tina (Doug) John, David Wallace Fletcher, Frances Carol (Clark) Young, Elizabeth (Victor) Patrick, and Russell Grant (Debora) Fletcher; 41 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by four siblings, Wallace Grant (Marie) Bennett, David Wells (Bonnie) Bennett, Frances (Lawrence) Jeppson and Robert Foster (Joyce) Bennett, as well as numerous nieces and nephews who adored her. She was preceded in death by her parents and two granddaughters, Camille Elizabeth Stack and Claire Linda Gail Sheffield.
Funeral Services will be held on what would have been her 84th birthday, Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12 noon at the Monument Park Stake Center, 1320 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City. Friends may call at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, on Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Stake Center on Friday.
Published in the Deseret News from 4/9/2009 - 4/10/2009.
Rosemary was a woman who gathered friends of every age and carried them with her wherever she went especially via her weekly family letter. Her annual Thanksgiving card went to hundreds, always with a personal note.
She opened her home to anyone who needed a place to stay, took a keen interest in their lives and never forgot a single detail. She held passionate opinions about everything from politics to religion, music, movies and the latest fashions and was never reticent about sharing them.
Rosemary was born smiling on April 10, 1925, the second child of Wallace Foster Bennett and Frances Grant Bennett and talked very shortly thereafter.
At East High School in Salt Lake City, Rosemary joined many clubs, was on the yearbook staff, sang in the A Capella and was secretary of the Girls Association. At the University of Utah, Chi Omega Sorority sisters became her dearest companions, some of whom still meet monthly for lunch.
After two years at the U, Rosemary went to Boston University to study music and fell in love with a shy, handsome MIT student named Robert C. Fletcher. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on Sept. 6, 1945 and made the East Coast their home for most of the next 50 years. Rosemary surrounded her eight children with love, laughter and music from Broadway to classical.
While folding laundry, she talked on the phone for hours, trying to make the world better one conversation at a time. A devoted, lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rosemary served in many leadership positions but rarely did things by the book because she treasured people over programs.
She prayed and even wrangled with Mitt Romney while serving as a stake Relief Society President in Boston. She had a special talent with teens. She offered them candid assessments of life's problems, yet provided spiritual solutions in language they could understand.
In Salt Lake City, Boston, Summit (New Jersey) and Albuquerque, she embraced people who felt left out and loved her neighbors of other faiths and no faith. After her children were grown, she volunteered with Meals on Wheels, read to the blind, and played piano by ear for the first grade at Bennion School in Salt Lake City.
Rosemary is survived by her husband of nearly 64 years; children Kathryn (Robert) Fowles, Robert Bennett (Gail) Fletcher, Peggy (Mike) Stack, Tina (Doug) John, David Wallace Fletcher, Frances Carol (Clark) Young, Elizabeth (Victor) Patrick, and Russell Grant (Debora) Fletcher; 41 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by four siblings, Wallace Grant (Marie) Bennett, David Wells (Bonnie) Bennett, Frances (Lawrence) Jeppson and Robert Foster (Joyce) Bennett, as well as numerous nieces and nephews who adored her. She was preceded in death by her parents and two granddaughters, Camille Elizabeth Stack and Claire Linda Gail Sheffield.
Funeral Services will be held on what would have been her 84th birthday, Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12 noon at the Monument Park Stake Center, 1320 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City. Friends may call at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, on Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Stake Center on Friday.
Published in the Deseret News from 4/9/2009 - 4/10/2009.
Rosemary Bennett Fletcher, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, musician, compassionate volunteer, crossword puzzle whiz and visiting teacher extraordinaire, died on April 6, 2009 of ovarian cancer.
Rosemary was a woman who gathered friends of every age and carried them with her wherever she went especially via her weekly family letter. Her annual Thanksgiving card went to hundreds, always with a personal note.
She opened her home to anyone who needed a place to stay, took a keen interest in their lives and never forgot a single detail. She held passionate opinions about everything from politics to religion, music, movies and the latest fashions and was never reticent about sharing them.
Rosemary was born smiling on April 10, 1925, the second child of Wallace Foster Bennett and Frances Grant Bennett and talked very shortly thereafter.
At East High School in Salt Lake City, Rosemary joined many clubs, was on the yearbook staff, sang in the A Capella and was secretary of the Girls Association. At the University of Utah, Chi Omega Sorority sisters became her dearest companions, some of whom still meet monthly for lunch.
After two years at the U, Rosemary went to Boston University to study music and fell in love with a shy, handsome MIT student named Robert C. Fletcher. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on Sept. 6, 1945 and made the East Coast their home for most of the next 50 years. Rosemary surrounded her eight children with love, laughter and music from Broadway to classical.
While folding laundry, she talked on the phone for hours, trying to make the world better one conversation at a time. A devoted, lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rosemary served in many leadership positions but rarely did things by the book because she treasured people over programs.
She prayed and even wrangled with Mitt Romney while serving as a stake Relief Society President in Boston. She had a special talent with teens. She offered them candid assessments of life's problems, yet provided spiritual solutions in language they could understand.
In Salt Lake City, Boston, Summit (New Jersey) and Albuquerque, she embraced people who felt left out and loved her neighbors of other faiths and no faith. After her children were grown, she volunteered with Meals on Wheels, read to the blind, and played piano by ear for the first grade at Bennion School in Salt Lake City.
Rosemary is survived by her husband of nearly 64 years; children Kathryn (Robert) Fowles, Robert Bennett (Gail) Fletcher, Peggy (Mike) Stack, Tina (Doug) John, David Wallace Fletcher, Frances Carol (Clark) Young, Elizabeth (Victor) Patrick, and Russell Grant (Debora) Fletcher; 41 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by four siblings, Wallace Grant (Marie) Bennett, David Wells (Bonnie) Bennett, Frances (Lawrence) Jeppson and Robert Foster (Joyce) Bennett, as well as numerous nieces and nephews who adored her. She was preceded in death by her parents and two granddaughters, Camille Elizabeth Stack and Claire Linda Gail Sheffield.
Funeral Services will be held on what would have been her 84th birthday, Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12 noon at the Monument Park Stake Center, 1320 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City. Friends may call at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, on Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Stake Center on Friday.
Published in the Deseret News from 4/9/2009 - 4/10/2009.
Rosemary was a woman who gathered friends of every age and carried them with her wherever she went especially via her weekly family letter. Her annual Thanksgiving card went to hundreds, always with a personal note.
She opened her home to anyone who needed a place to stay, took a keen interest in their lives and never forgot a single detail. She held passionate opinions about everything from politics to religion, music, movies and the latest fashions and was never reticent about sharing them.
Rosemary was born smiling on April 10, 1925, the second child of Wallace Foster Bennett and Frances Grant Bennett and talked very shortly thereafter.
At East High School in Salt Lake City, Rosemary joined many clubs, was on the yearbook staff, sang in the A Capella and was secretary of the Girls Association. At the University of Utah, Chi Omega Sorority sisters became her dearest companions, some of whom still meet monthly for lunch.
After two years at the U, Rosemary went to Boston University to study music and fell in love with a shy, handsome MIT student named Robert C. Fletcher. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on Sept. 6, 1945 and made the East Coast their home for most of the next 50 years. Rosemary surrounded her eight children with love, laughter and music from Broadway to classical.
While folding laundry, she talked on the phone for hours, trying to make the world better one conversation at a time. A devoted, lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rosemary served in many leadership positions but rarely did things by the book because she treasured people over programs.
She prayed and even wrangled with Mitt Romney while serving as a stake Relief Society President in Boston. She had a special talent with teens. She offered them candid assessments of life's problems, yet provided spiritual solutions in language they could understand.
In Salt Lake City, Boston, Summit (New Jersey) and Albuquerque, she embraced people who felt left out and loved her neighbors of other faiths and no faith. After her children were grown, she volunteered with Meals on Wheels, read to the blind, and played piano by ear for the first grade at Bennion School in Salt Lake City.
Rosemary is survived by her husband of nearly 64 years; children Kathryn (Robert) Fowles, Robert Bennett (Gail) Fletcher, Peggy (Mike) Stack, Tina (Doug) John, David Wallace Fletcher, Frances Carol (Clark) Young, Elizabeth (Victor) Patrick, and Russell Grant (Debora) Fletcher; 41 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by four siblings, Wallace Grant (Marie) Bennett, David Wells (Bonnie) Bennett, Frances (Lawrence) Jeppson and Robert Foster (Joyce) Bennett, as well as numerous nieces and nephews who adored her. She was preceded in death by her parents and two granddaughters, Camille Elizabeth Stack and Claire Linda Gail Sheffield.
Funeral Services will be held on what would have been her 84th birthday, Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12 noon at the Monument Park Stake Center, 1320 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City. Friends may call at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, on Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Stake Center on Friday.
Published in the Deseret News from 4/9/2009 - 4/10/2009.
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