Marjorie Ann Clark (Stout) Ridgeway Obituary (1935 - 2019)

Marjorie Ann Clark (Stout) Ridgeway, 83, passed away on Friday, August 2, 2019. Marjorie was born to Florence and Jonathan Clark on November 2, 1935, in Hyde Park, Utah, and was the fourth of seven children. She grew up in Hyde Park and Logan Utah, Grass Valley California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. She married Richard Dale Stout in the Salt Lake Temple on August 16, 1957. They moved frequently, living in Salt Lake City, Tabiona and Delta, Utah, and Ely, Nevada over the next 10 years, and had six children. Summers were often spent in Provo or Logan, Utah as Richard pursued a master’s degree. Following Richard’s death in 1968, she lived in South Salt Lake and raised six children under the age of 9, including a newborn. She married Gary Lamar Ridgeway on May 18, 1973, who brought four additional sons to the new family, moved to Murray, Utah, and had another daughter. Following Gary’s death in 1995, she stayed in Murray. Marjorie was an active and faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints all her life, serving at least once in every possible calling. Service in the Church she once said was more satisfying than school. She was on the high school swim team and loved to hike. She also loved to sing and she sang with many different groups in high school and in the Church, including a female barbershop quartet in her 30’s. She played the piano and taught piano as a young mother and widow to provide for her family. She graduated in 1957 with a degree in elementary education from the University of Utah and taught in several elementary schools starting in the Nebo school district. Later in life she taught a variety of subjects for many years at the Mount Vernon Academy in Murray Utah. Marjorie is survived by her children, Niel (Johanna) Stout, Sandra (Sid) Stock, Karen Burton, Carla (Steve) Tenenbaum, Shauna Williams, Lorin (Jennifer) Stout, and Diana Ridgeway, stepsons Brent (Melanie) Ridgeway, Brian (Rose) Ridgeway, Curt (Kris) Ridgeway, 51 grandchildren, and 40 great grandchildren, sister Florence Smith, brothers, Weldon Clark, Justin (Barbara) Clark, Gary (Judy) Clark, and brothers-in-law Jack Lambson and Glenn Eames. She is preceded in death by her parents, sisters Jean Lambsen and Marlene Eames, husbands Richard Stout and Gary Ridgeway, step-son Craig Ridgeway, brother-in-law Hollis Smith, and sister-in-law Audrey Clark. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 10, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Murray Little Cottonwood Stake Center, 6180 S Glenoaks St. in Murray, Utah. A viewing will take place on Friday, August 9, 2019, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Jenkins-Soffe Funeral Home, 4760 S. State Street, and Saturday from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment: Elysian Burial Gardens. Online condolences may be shared at www.jenkins-soffe.com