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- The Deseret News
July 20, 2011.
Fay Louise Hemmingsen Woodbury died July 17, 2011 in Austin, Texas.
She was born October 17, 1924 to Hemming Andreas Hemmingsen and Anne Louise Sorensen in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from Granite High School in 1942 and attended St. Mark's nursing program before marrying Charles Eugene Woodbury on August 10, 1945 in the Salt Lake Temple and raised six children.
She served in many church callings including Relief Society President, temple worker for the Houston and San Antonio Temples, and a LDS mission with her husband to (then) Zaire, Africa.
Among her many talents, her drawing and painting, cooking (esp. her cinnamon rolls and sweet soup), crocheting, and lessons she learned during the Depression such as how to swim and play the piano will be greatly missed.
She is survived by six children, Charla Woodbury, Salt Lake City, Utah; Carol (Dave) Dowding, Loveland, Colorado; Vern (DeeDee) Woodbury, Austin, Texas; Sandra (Gerry) King, Rogers, Arkansas; Brian (Dana) Woodbury, Gilbert, Arizona; Kevin (MaryEllen) Woodbury, Everett, Washington; twenty-four grandchildren; and thirty great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband Charles (April 20, 2006), her parents, two sisters (Marjorie and Marion), and one brother (Arnold).
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