Margaret-Wilde-Obituary

Margaret Larson Wilde

Salt Lake City, Utah

1945 - 2014

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Sept. 3, 1945 - July 27, 2014Margaret (Maggie) Larson Wilde died peacefully in her home in South Jordan on Sunday, July 27, 2014. Maggie was defiant to the end, surviving cancer long beyond expectations and embracing life through these last eight tumultuous yet precious years.Maggie led an...

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I am very late to this party but only this morning decided to look for your mom on Facebook and was led to this.

Although I was two years older she and I were joined at the hip in college (and your father was also a very good friend.) We were the two black sheep of Alpha Chi, invited to smoke cigars int he living room of the house to convince rushees the house wasn't a chapter of the local ward, and were in the Journalism School and on the Chronicle staff together. I was usually the...

November 4, 2014
Dear Mom,
As I grappled with writing your obituary, I was reminded of the movie “Big Fish”. In trying to summarize and memorialize your life, I remembered vividly so many of the stories you told me. I remembered you telling of standing on Ticaboo's bare back to pick apples at the ranch, killing rattlesnakes, and when you drove Grandpa Hazen's Cadillac into a ditch. I remembered your tales of glory, fun and mischief in college. I remember it all--each and every story...

If you lived in Utah, you could no more be unaware of Maggie Wilde than you could be unaware of Mount Olympus. She was miles ahead of most of us in her understanding of what women needed to do, but she always led with wit and wisdom rather than impatience. Sincerest condolences to her family and all who loved her. ~~Elouise Bell

I spent many summers with cousin Maggie at our grandparents ranch. She is my friend and I miss her.

Ken Wright, Salt Lake City, Utah

Maggie's response, on hearing someone's good news, was to break into a wide grin and exclaim: "That's . . . so . . . BIG!" She remains so more than 35 years after my wife Robbie and I left Salt Lake to live and work in Washington. I realize now that Maggie was one of the first people I met who was fully capable of creative, joyful mischief. She definitely . . . was . . . so . . . BIG!

I was so sorry to hear of Maggie's passing away. I am sure she fought a valiant fight as she always approached life. I knew her as a little girl through college and am proud to call her family and to known her parents and grandparents as well. I wish your family the very best and know that she will be with her family again. She will always be remembered with fond thoughts of her growing up years.

Girl Scout Troop 72, Brighton, UT, Feb. 6, 1960. "Marg" Larson is front row, center.

I've known Maggie since junior high school. She has been Margaret Larson, Marg Larson and Maggie Wilde to me. We were even in Girl Scout Troop 72 together! Her mom Lola was one of our leaders.

Later Maggie was my “boss” in the Public Affairs Office at the Department of Natural Resources. She has been a good friend through it all. I will miss you, Maggie.

Maggie was the girl that I always looked up to. She was so beautiful and I wished I could be her. Growing-up my favorite clothes were her hand-me-downs. I could still describe some of them! As an adult Maggie amazed me with her intelligence. Lucky me.... I had Maggie as a cousin. You will be missed.

Who can forget that grin, all that it represented, all that was going on behind the scenes in that brain of hers. That's our friend, Maggie, always and forever, the Wilde One!