Gerald “Jerry” ValJean Larsen, 90, of Pleasant View, Utah, died peacefully on July 23, 2021 in the presence of his wife Lois in North Ogden, Utah.
Jerry was born on May 9, 1931 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Earl ValGean and Norene Althea Lewis Larsen. He grew up in Salt Lake City, Ephraim, and Pleasant View, Utah, and graduated from Weber High School in Ogden, Utah in 1949.
During the Korean War he served as a third class sergeant in the United States Navy and was stationed in the Pearl Harbor submarine fleet in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1952 to 1955.
Jerry graduated from Utah State University with a degree in civil engineering in the spring of 1962. On October 12, 1962, he married Lois Rasmussen in Latter-day Saints’ Logan Temple. Together they raised a family with five children.
Jerry spent a 30-year career with the United States Forest Service in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Washington, DC, first as a firefighter and then as a civil engineer surveying, mapping, and securing the land of the US National Forest.
He has served in Latter-day Saint Church callings, high counselor, member of three dioceses, practical home teacher, and coordinating contractor for new church buildings. He leaves behind his 59-year-old wife Lois, his siblings Myrna Anderson, Sheryl Northern and David Larsen, his daughters Sally (Brian) West and Paula (Sergio) Mamani and the sons Clair, Gary (Angie) and Val (Boni). He is also survived by grandchildren Cameron, Shelby, Norene, Devon, Brody, Courtney, Berkley, Angela, Bradley, Cooper, Kate, Sydney, Sergio Paul, and Jacoba, and great-grandson Grace. He is preceded in death by his parents, his siblings James Larsen and Carol Moses, his son from a previous marriage Steven Brett Camby and his precious grandson Aaron Lowell West.
His family appreciates and thanks the doctors and nurses at Ogden Regional Medical Center, Envision Home Health & Hospice, and The Lodge at North Ogden who looked after him.
Family and friends can meet up for a viewing on Thursday, July 29, 2021, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Aaron’s Mortuary & Crematorium, 496 24th Street in Ogden, Utah. A funeral service will be held on Friday morning, July 30, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. at Mink Creek Cemetery, 7300 North Capitol Hill Road, Mink Creek, Idaho 83263.
Published by Aaron’s Mortuary and Crematory – Ogden from July 27th to July 28th, 2021.
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