Eleanor W. LeBaron

The long, beautiful life of Eleanor W. LeBaron ended on 8 February 2026. She died peacefully in her sleep, an example of life-long success as a wife and mother.

She was the offspring of a large, active L.D.S family and always held sacred the faith she developed as a child. Her notion of how Church members should comfort themselves guided virtually all her daily actions. Her children always respected the way their mother chose to live her religion.

Eleanor’s life was blessed with four years of adventure abroad: two in England and northern Europe and two in South America. Most of her adult life, however, rolled past while living on the “Island” in Logan. A quilting hobby and L.D.S. Relief Society callings at Ward and Stake levels connected her to personal struggles and heartaches of other women. They found Eleanor to be tender-hearted and reliant upon mercy and grace first, while always attempting to be fair and just. In a similar vein, being a Primary and Sunday School teacher and Young Women’s advisor touched the lives of a large number of neighborhood children and young families. (Her Chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter chocolate squares are still legendary with Generation X-ers from the Logan Thrushwood and Cliffside area.)

As Allen was often away on U.S.U. assignments, it fell upon Eleanor to manage household affairs and be a major influence upon how six offspring learned to govern themselves.

Frugality and hard work; patience and making the best of hard situations, are what they learned. It's quite possible that her example was important in helping all six to work themselves into successful careers. 

Eleanor eventually became the matriarch of quite a few grand and great grandchildren, all of whom felt her nurturing love. Unfortunately, many of these descendants only knew her during advanced years, when ill health governed her daily routine. But still they got to embrace an interesting lady who loved playing games with young persons. As Eleanor grew more and more reliant upon a wheelchair, she became a voracious reader and eventually knew a little bit about a lot of things, so she could keep up her end of most conversation (especially if a good joke was involved.) She would remember and try to tell jokes to the family right up to the very end.

Eleanor was self-effacing, self-deprecating, demure, never prideful or vain, or self-aggrandizing or presumptuous. She was an example of character and integrity. While she had much to be proud of, her own humility sometimes prevented her from seeing what so many around her could plainly see: she was an amazing woman and human being.

A graveside service (arranged by Broomhead Funeral Home) will be held at Utah Veterans Cemetery & Memorial Park, 17111 So. Camp Williams Road, Bluffdale (east off of Redwood Road) at 10:00 am, Thursday, February 19, 2026.