Ida Mae Farrington Park

Funeral services for Ida Mae Park will be broadcast live on Saturday, October 24, 2020 beginning at 11:45 AM. To watch this service, please click on the link below.

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Ida Mae Park , 97, of Murray, Utah, Wife, Mom and Grandmother, died peacefully at home October 18, 2020 with her family at her side. She was born in Pima,Arizona, daughter of Clifford J. Farrington and Ida Dove Stinson Farrington. She graduated from Ft. Thomas High school in Ft. Thomas, Arizona. She then attended business school in Phoenix, Arizona and took classes at the Flight School in Safford, Arizona.

She grew up in Ashurst, Arizona on a farm owned by her father. On February 17, 1943 she married Virgil Clive Park while he was on leave from the Navy during World War II. She worked as a waitress and telephone operator during the time her husband was at war. They moved to Morenci, Arizona in 1948 where they lived until 1963. She worked at Kopper Kettle Cafe and Estes Drug store and a few other jobs there.

In 1963 they moved to Murray, Utah. Their marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple on December 19, 1963. In Utah she worked for Hammonds Tots and Toys in the children’s clothing department in Cottonwood Mall and then worked at JC Penney in the same mall until she retired at age 86.

She is survived by four children: Terry (Paulette) of Weston, Idaho, Tracy (Steve) of West Jordan, Richard (Lynn) also of West Jordan, and Randy of Murray. She had 14 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, and 4 great great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Virgil C. Park, on June 4, 1995, and by her eight siblings.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2020, at 12:00 noon at the Millcreek 8th Ward, 4558 South 600 East, Murray with a viewing prior from 11:00-11:45 a.m. The service will be lived-streamed on Facebook. The link for the services will be provided Saturday morning on her obituary. She will be interred at Elysian Gardens in Millcreek, Utah.

The family wishes to send a special thanks to the staff of Aspire Hospice Care and to Shelly and Judith for the loving care they provided in her last days.