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Lois Carter Pierson
Beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother, Lois Carter Pierson, completed her earthly mission and returned to her Heavenly Father on June 30, 2007, in Beaver, Utah, at the age of 92.
Lois was born seventh of 10 children to Hayward and Inez Carter on Aug. 22, 1914 in Minersville, Utah. She lived in Minersville her entire youth and graduated from the Minersville School in 1932. After graduation Lois traveled to California where she met and married Joseph Thomas Pierson on July 21, 1939. Their marriage was solemnized in the St. George Temple in 1972.
They were married for 32 years and were the parents of two children, Marcia Anne (John) Waggoner of Cedar City, and Joseph Rollin (Laura) Pierson of Las Vegas.
Even though grandma Lois and grandpa Joe only had two children they left
behind a large posterity of seven grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.
Lois lived in southern California during the early years of her marriage and then she and grandpa Joe moved to Las Vegas where Lois worked as a medical insurance specialist and became the president of the Medical Secretaries Association for the state of Nevada.
After the death of her beloved husband, Joe, in 1971, grandma Lois moved to Southern Utah and lived with her widowed sister Nettie Carter Myers in Minersville.
Lois continued her work in the medical insurance profession working at the Graff Medical Clinic where she became a hero for the elderly as she expertly navigated Medicare's rules and regulations to ensure that older patients got the medical benefits they were entitled to.
For many years Lois lived with her daughter Marcia (John) Waggoner in Cedar City. During these years she worked in the family clothing store business, traveled with her sisters to many foreign lands, held many church callings, did temple work in the St. George Temple, served an LDS mission in Hawaii with three of her sisters, always ate dessert first, and grew beautiful flower gardens, but most of all grandma Lois loved to help her entire family whenever she was needed.
Grandma Lois devoted her life to the service of her family and we will cherish forever the memories of her devotion. We hold grandma Lois near to our hearts and will always treasure the beauty and love she created in everything she touched.
Her mother and father, Inez and Hayward Carter, and her siblings and their spouses, Leona and Lester Roberts, Frank and Drucilla Carter, Addie and O'Thello Smith, Nettie and Victor Myers, Darwin Carter, Sheral and Lelia Carter, Rex Carter, Anna Rae Carter, Chester Cusick, her husband Joseph Thomas Pierson and great-granddaughter Josie Ann Waggoner precede Lois in death.
Her brother Max R. Carter and sister Bertha Jane Cusick, and sister-in-law Carol Myers Carter survive her, as well as her two children Marcia Anne Waggoner and Joseph Rollin Pierson, their spouses, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Services were July 3, 2007 at the Minersville 2nd Ward Church in Minersville, Utah. Viewings were July 2 and July 3 in the Minersville 2nd Ward Church.  Interment was in the Minersville Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. Online condolences can be sent to www.southernutahmortuary.com.

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