LOUAINE HADFIELD
American Fork, Utah – Louaine Hadfield passed away peacefully at her home in American Fork, Utah, on Thursday morning, November 24, 2005.
She was born in Malad, Idaho, on August 30, 1921, to Rosa Ella Jones and Charles James Lowry. She was the eighth of eleven children. When she was about five years old, her family moved to Kansas City, Kansas, where her dad owned and operated the Overland Bus Company. She started kindergarten there. They only lived in Kansas City about six months before they moved to Los Angeles, where she attended the first four grades of school. She enjoyed going to the beach with her family.
In 1932, they moved back to Malad. Louaine started working for the Mountain States Telephone Company as a telephone operator while still in high school.
During her high school years she met and dated her eternal companion, Ralph William Hadfield, whom she married on April 5, 1942. They were the parents of two sons, Larry and Lynn. The Peck Place in Malad was their first home.
They lived there and farmed for three years until the war was over. A business opportunity opened up in Lava Hot Springs, and they moved there in the spring of 1946, and Ralph managed a UTOCO service station. Louaine was kept busy raising two boys and managing the cabins they rented.
Eleven years later, in 1957, they returned to Malad, where Ralph managed the Ford Automobile and New Holland Farm Implement Dealership in partnership with his brother. Louaine returned to work at the telephone company where she remained until Malad converted to the direct dial system and the telephone office was closed. They retired and remained in Malad until 2003, when because of Louaine’s declining health, they moved to American Fork, Utah, to be closer to their sons and their families.
Louaine was a very loving and kind wife, mother and friend. Throughout her life, she was always concerned for the thinking of others above herself.
She particularly enjoyed cooking a find Sunday dinner and sharing it with friends and family.
Louaine was an active member of the LDS Church and served in many positions, including Primary teacher and librarian. She especially enjoyed visiting with her Relief Society sisters as a visiting teacher. She was sealed to her husband to time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple on November 30, 1989.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles James and Rosa Ella Lowry; five brothers: Clifford Lowry, Kenneth Lowry, Gordon Lowry, Tom Lowry, and Charles James Lowry; four sister; Iva Bell Lowry, Nadine Gessner, Helen Louise Kmetzsch, and Elva Inez Henkel; and a grandson, Jason Lynn Hadfield.
She is survived by her husband, Ralph William Hadfield; a sister, Faye Tubbs; her two sons, Larry William Hadfield and Lynn James Hadfield; eleven grandchildren: Angela Dawn Conover, Lacey Anne Fugal, Blaine Hadfield, Mackenzie Jaye Hadfield, Fredrick Walter Woodward, Arlene Marie Arnold, Carol Ann Lindley, Clifton Warren Williams, Aaron Edmond Williams and Celeste Leigh Spangler; 16 great-grandchildren and many loving nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were scheduled Tuesday at noon in the Malad LDS Third Ward Chapel. Burial was in the Malad City Cemetery.