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Submitted: 8/21/11 • Approved: 8/21/11 • Last Updated: 6/12/20 • R48054-G48054-S3
I was born to Ernst Paul Heinrich Bondiek and Mathilde Elizabeth Christine Bartels on August 17, 1925, in North Bergen, New Jersey. I had one sister, Inge Martha Carla Bondiek Otten Roemer who was four years older than I.
My family was loving and close. My parents had immigrated from Germany in 1923, therefore we had no other relatives in the USA. In 1935, Mom and I went to Germany and I enjoyed visiting the few relatives there were on both sides of the family. Both parents have died.
Most of my childhood was spent in Fairview, New Jersey where a home was bought. I graduated from Emerson High School in Union City, N.J. and in 1946 graduated from the Hackensack Hospital School of Nursing in Hackensack, N.J. I worked as a nurse in various hospitals and as a school nurse in Port Jervis, N.J., and graduated from the University of Utah in Nursing in 1963. I then taught in the St. Mark's Hospital School of Nursing for eight years.
In 1970 I became the Public Health and School Nurse in Wasatch County for 18 years, then, the afternoon nurse on the Children's Unit at the Utah State Hospital in Provo, Utah for 2 ½ years before retiring. I loved nursing and it gave me great joy to be able to help people whether as patients in hospitals or in other walks of life. I was able to ‘walk in their moccasins' as the Indians say. I never learned to relate well with those who became angry frequently. I would "freeze" and try to tolerate in with no meaningful communications until on one occasion I exploded saying something hurtful, which I so much regret to this day. I pray, now that I am gone, forgiveness is there.
Temple Square in Salt Lake City is a special place where I first heard of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There was knowledge that I as a Lutheran did not have. It was wonderful. Elder Garald W. Bowie taught me the Gospel and baptized me as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 6 June 1959 in Schenectady, N.Y. My testimony is strong regarding the truthfulness of the Church that Jesus himself restored to the Earth through the prophet Joseph smith. I am so grateful for all that Jesus did for me. I have been active in various positions in the LDS Church. August 14, 1963, Alma Frederick Durtschi and I were married in the Salt Lake Temple for Time and all Eternity. I was the third wife that was sealed to him, the first was Vivian Nisonger who died of a rheumatic heart; and the second was Jane Peel who was killed in a car accident. We lived in Midway, Utah. He had two sons, Fenton and Gerald, their wives and children.
We enjoyed taking trips throughout the west. Alma died July 12, 1984. I served an 18 month mission in the Geneological Library in SLC; and as an usher on Temple Square for 2 ½ years. These were glorious times for which I am so grateful. During this time I lived with Helen Haugan in SLC after which she moved in with me. In 1997 we moved to LaVerkin, UT. She died in 2004 at 102. I died February 15, 2011, in St. George, Utah, at the age of 85.
Survived by sister, three nieces, one nephew, Helga Kahrs, (Klaus) Alfstedt, Germany; Matin Otten (Carol Ann) Hilton Head Island, S. Carolina; Bettie Bennet (Bob) Otego, N.Y.; Melanie Manis (Jack), Scotts, Michigan, and their children; eight grandchildren and descendents. She is also preceded in death by Alma's two sons, Fenton (Margaret), Ogden, Utah; Gerald (LaRae) Bountiful, Utah.
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Funeral Services:
Funeral services will be held Monday, February 28, 2011 – 11:00 AM in the LaVerkin LDS Stake Center, 481 North Main Street, LaVerkin, Utah. Viewing will be on Saturday, February 26 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM at Olpin-Hoopes Funeral Homes, 288 North Main Street, Heber City, and on Monday from 9:30 – 10:30 AM prior to the services in the LDS Church. Private Interment will be in the Midway City Cemetery, Midway, Utah.
Contributed on 8/21/11 by wasatchcemetery
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