Our beloved sister and friend Pamela Rae Tupa was born on August 10, 1957 in Torrance, California. Angels accompanied her home on June 10, 2021. Many in heaven rejoiced to see them arrive.
Pam moved her family to their precious Ogden when she was 10 years old, where she lived for most of the next 20 years and intended to return after retirement.
Although she was born in Southern California, she considered Ogden to be her hometown. She attended her final two years of elementary school at old Lynn Elementary, where her favorite teacher was Mr. Glen Cottle.
She began her secondary education at Highland Junior High and finished it at Kearns Junior High School. Then it was back to Ogden and her proud years of preparation at Ogden High. For the rest of her life, the dedicated Tiger graduate took great pride in attending the same school as her grandfather, mother and many other relatives.
For college, she attended Stevens Henager and honed the skills she would apply throughout her 45 year professional career. Pam worked for a number of companies in Ogden and Salt Lake before finding her final position at the Win-Mark Company in Salt Lake City, where she worked for 31 and a half years.
Her other activities included participating in music productions. She earned a spot on the cast of “The Music Man” on a show in Salt Lake City in 1986. She also belonged to a theater company in the Salt Lake City area for several years and filled several quarters, including helping with writing and starring in an original show.
She also devoted herself to worship and served in her fifties as a temple worker in the West Bank for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She lived in Roxborough Park Ward in West Valley City for more than 30 years until her death. She loved her many colleagues and friends there, and served faithfully in many callings.
In 1990 Pam took care of her mother during a long battle with cancer. Pam would survive breast cancer twice in 1998 and 2007 and endure other major health challenges, but would work full-time for up to a week before she died. She didn’t have a car and walked about a mile and a half to bus and train stops every weekday to get to and from work.
She loved her extended family in the Saunders clan in northern Utah and the Tupa family in Texas. She also loved America and Disneyland and Broadway musicals and lots of other things.
But the gospel and family have always been high on their priority ladder.
Her mother, Karlene (Saunders) Tupa, father Jerry James Tupa, maternal grandparents, paternal grandparents, beloved aunts Barbara (Saunders) Watkins and Sharon (Saunders) Fuhr, uncle Mark Eugene Saunders, uncle Henry Tupa, and aunt Judith left her in death. advance Tupa and many other relatives and friends.
Survivors include her brother Mike Tupa from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Uncle Larry Saunders (Sandy) from Saratoga, Aunt Carol Bigler (DeeJay) from Mapleton, Uncle Read Saunders (Colleen) from Arizona, Aunt Sylvia Steffek (Jimmie) from Texas, and Auntie Wilma Schäfer (Richard) from Texas.
She also survived from Aunt Angie Winkler from Texas, Great Uncle Darrell Saunders from Ogden, and Great Uncle Glen Saunders from the Ogden area, as well as many cousins and friends.
Their services are scheduled for Thursday at 11am in Aaron’s morgue on the 24th and Adams in Ogden. A visit is scheduled at 10 a.m.
Published by Aaron’s Mortuary and Crematory – Ogden June 15 to June 16, 2021.
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