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- The Deseret News
June 3, 1997
Rhoda Myrtle Stay Wixom, age 79, died at her daughter's home June 1, 1997 in Salt Lake City after a long illness. She was born May 16, 1918 in Salt Lake City, to Wilford Valentine and Rhoda Deseret Gunn Stay. She married Blaine Jackson Wixom on her birthday, May 16, 1940 in the Salt Lake Temple.
A mother devoted to her four children, she made draperies in her home to finance their missions and education. Later, as a library research assistant for the University of Utah, she pursued her lifelong love of learning. Her dream of an occupation was to have all the great books at her fingertips. To her, reading, travel, square dancing, and the associations she and her husband, Blaine, made through their years with the Sons of the Utah Pioneers and friends were joys of her life. She loved to serve and did so in community, church and educational matters.
As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served in all of its auxiliaries and loved to study and discuss its doctrines. Inseparable from her husband, she cherished the time they served together as missionaries in East Texas.
She is survived by her mother, Rhoda Stay, Salt Lake City, three sisters, Mrs. Walton L. Rice (Fern) Murray, Mrs. C. Edwin Bailey (Betty) Holladay and Mrs. Otho Straight (Valois) West Valley City, three brothers, Bill Stay (Norma) Palm Springs, California, Val Stay (Phillis) Salt Lake City, Dennis Stay (Maxine) Orem and two daughters, Mrs. Richard E. Black (Pam) Sandy, Mrs. Lane Wallace (Rhonda) Columbus, Ohio, two sons B. Jackson, Jr. (Rosemary) Salt Lake City and Gary A. (Christine) Sandy, 23 grand children and nine great-grandchildren. Mrs. Wixom was preceded in death by her father and her husband.
Burial will be at the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
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