Bryce Lamar Adams Dover
January 24, 1931 ~ February 23, 2021
Everything revolves around the Dash!
Loving father, grandfather, brother and uncle, Bryce Lamar Adams Dover returned to the arms of his Heavenly Father on February 23, 2021.
Bryce was born on January 24, 1931 in Cedar City, Utah, named for the unmistakable grandeur of the Bryce Canyons. At the young age of four, he contracted polio, which ravaged his body his entire life, but his toughness prevailed. His father Otto Horace Dover and mother Iva Adams Dover moved their four children to Ogden after a career at Meadow Gold Dairy. His parents later opened the White Cliff’s of Dover Confectionary on Washington Boulevard and 12th Street. Dad worked at the counter learning candy making and serving the multitude of ice cream parlors while attending Ogden High School and graduating from 1950’s class. When he was 18, Papa was drafted into the Korean War. During his hiring, he became the head chef of the Colonels, but more importantly, he became the father of Marianne and Todd Dover. In 1954 he was honorably discharged from the US Army and moved back to Ogden to attend Weber College and work for Meadow Gold Dairy. In 1960 he got a job with the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District and married his best friend and giggle friend Gladys Kay Stitt on August 27th. As if the marriage were not blissful in and of itself, he became the father of three other precious beings, Linda, Alan, and Cate. Now our family was complete. Dad retired from Weber Basin Water in 1985 and served loyally as an exceptional irrigation water expert for 25 years. He knew the exact location of every single switch valve along Davis County’s east bank and made sure that every farmer, rancher, and resident was receiving their fair share of water. He retired in 1985 and became a full-time husband, father, and grandfather. His self-invented gadgets, grocery stores, toys, jumps, trampoline basketball water parks with wheels and horns were enjoyed by young and old.
He married our beloved mother and sealed our family on August 26, 1995 at the Ogden LDS Temple for all time and eternity. In 2013, at the age of 82, he and Betty Adams found each other and spent eight loving, happy years together.
Bryce was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served many and varied callings. Despite kidney failure, he showed his toughness again, selflessly creating significant worth every day. Blessed with those sweet and loving sky-blue eyes, he always said he had an eye on us. You see, he actually slept with one eye open and even napped for a few minutes after a hard day’s work. He enjoyed creating images of the beauty that surrounds us so much, always of the great outdoors. He had always dreamed of owning a log cabin in the woods, a babbling brook right outside the door, and planting that fishing rod in the rushing, ice-cold mountain water.
Glady Kay Stitt Dover died in 2007, without a doubt she prepared a reunion like no other, certainly a sneak attack with a body bomb!
Betty Adams Dover died a few weeks before Dad on February 5, 2021.
Bryce is survived by his children Linda Kay Dunn, Alan and Mary Jane Dover, and Cate and Darrell Burrows. His amazing parents, Iva and Otto Dover, eternal wife Gladys K. Stitt Dover, his wife Betty Adams Dover, and children Marianne Siever and Todd Dover left us all before him, now reunited.
We are blessed to have been part of his Dash!
Services will be held on Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 2 p.m. at Lindquist Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd. Friends can socialize with the Lindquists family on Saturday from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. visit.
Condolences can be shared at: www.lindquistmortuary.com.
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