Jeanette Royle Monson, Sisters Reunion, September 2009
It is with sadness that we advise you of Jeanette Royle Monson's passing early this morning, February 5, 2010. Many of you will remember her from our mission days and many others from our Sisters Reunions over the years. My first memory is of her beautiful voice singing at one of our missionary meetings in Brazil. She was a terrific missionary. I could always count on her being at the Bangerter reunions over the years and some one I could visit with. Last Friday, Virginia Walker Hansen and I met Jeanette at the Mount Timpanogos Temple. She took my arm in the Celestial Room as we moved to the nearest sofa to visit a while. The three of us lunched for a couple of hours and then visited for another couple at the Bangerter's in Alpine. She was her typical vibrant self. We had many lembranças to share.
Anticipating she would be leaving this life in the near future she and her children had a wonderful week in Boston and Connecticut visiting familiar places from their twenty years there. The last item in her "bucket list" as she called it was a Disney Cruise with all her children and grandchildren. She did it all and faired well.
Jeanette had a great battle with cancer over the past three years. She loved teaching in the elementary grades, especially teaching U.S. History and taking many of her students to Washington, D. C. She was awarded Teacher of the Year. The last two years of her teaching were facilitated by wonderful students and their parents as she rotated from chemo therapy days to teaching days in typical Jeanette class and style. Of significance these past months has been her bishop, Bishop Paulo Bangerter and the physician on call in the emergency room one night when she arrived last summer, Dr. Neeleman--yes, Rose and Gary's son. These men were a timely and wonderful help to her.
Jeanette was remarkable and we'll miss her.
Her obituary will be published in the Deseret News and Provo Herald Wednesday and can be accessed at www.legacy.com. We send this advance notice in the event you might miss it in the papers.
Anticipating she would be leaving this life in the near future she and her children had a wonderful week in Boston and Connecticut visiting familiar places from their twenty years there. The last item in her "bucket list" as she called it was a Disney Cruise with all her children and grandchildren. She did it all and faired well.
Jeanette had a great battle with cancer over the past three years. She loved teaching in the elementary grades, especially teaching U.S. History and taking many of her students to Washington, D. C. She was awarded Teacher of the Year. The last two years of her teaching were facilitated by wonderful students and their parents as she rotated from chemo therapy days to teaching days in typical Jeanette class and style. Of significance these past months has been her bishop, Bishop Paulo Bangerter and the physician on call in the emergency room one night when she arrived last summer, Dr. Neeleman--yes, Rose and Gary's son. These men were a timely and wonderful help to her.
Jeanette was remarkable and we'll miss her.
Her obituary will be published in the Deseret News and Provo Herald Wednesday and can be accessed at www.legacy.com. We send this advance notice in the event you might miss it in the papers.
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