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Elise Brown
1933 - 2025
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Elise Brown Obituary
Elise Brown
1933 - 2025
- Elise (Elyse) Lamoreaux Brown passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family at the age of 92 on November 24, 2025. Elise was born on May 3, 1933, in American Fork, Utah, to Thelma Williams Lamoreaux and David James Lamoreaux. She was the middle child of five siblings. The first four children were born close together, and they did many things together when they were young.
Her family moved frequently, living in several homes in Salt Lake City before moving to Spanish Fork when Elise started 6th grade. At Spanish Fork High School, Elise excelled academically and enjoyed music, speech, drama, and school dances. She had many close friends.
The summer between her junior and senior years of high school, she lived with a relative in Salt Lake City to earn some money for her senior year. On her way home from work one day, a car with three young adult men, including Lloyd, pulled up to talk to her. She went out dancing with the three of them that night, and later Lloyd asked her out on a formal date. They dated that summer and fall, sometimes with Lloyd picking her up in Spanish Fork and then having her stay with his family in Salt Lake City for the weekend. They became engaged in November 1950 and were married in the Salt Lake Temple on April 26, 1951, about one month before Elise graduated from high school.
They were blessed with five children. Elise was very young, only 18 years old, when their oldest daughter was born. It was a difficult adjustment at first, but she loved being a mother and embraced the role as the four later children were born. She often couldn't do everything she wanted to do because of health challenges, including arthritis, three back fusions, breast cancer, autoimmune problems, and knee and hip replacements.
Elise was a fiercely independent and determined woman. She threw herself into many creative projects and a wide variety of self-learning, such as floral arranging (including making arrangements for the RV shows for Lloyd's business). She loved organic gardening, landscape planning, sewing, canning, quilting, health and nutrition, and studying many topics. Even her novels were underlined and highlighted!
In addition, she served in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, planning large activities for the M Men and Gleaners as well as the Laurels and Explorers, creating spectacular road shows, and serving on the Service and Activities Committee for the Ward. She also served in ward and stake Young Women presidencies. In addition to supporting Lloyd through many Church leadership callings and business ups and downs, they also served together as senior service missionaries at the St. George Temple Visitor's Center and Historic Sites.
She absolutely loved to travel. Elise and Lloyd traveled all over the world, often with family. Her favorite places included England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and Australia. She also enjoyed playing cards and golfing. For many years, she organized and took annual family trips to Lake Powell (which were filled with fun and games and delicious meals and desserts, including ice cream puffs stored in a repurposed military blood bank-AKA, the Lake Powell deep freeze).
Elise lived a very full and active life as a younger adult, but as her health declined, she did less and less, particularly during her last twenty-five years.
Elise is survived by her loving and attentive husband, Lloyd; their five children, Shauna (Renard) Richter, Brad (Peggy) Brown, Blake (Diana) Brown, Lisa (Clark) Roper, and Tricia (Jeff) Peterson. They have 35 grandchildren; 60 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Marie, and her brothers Dee and Larry; only her brother Bill survives her.
Funeral services will be held Friday, November 28, 2025, at 12:00 pm at the South Cottonwood Ward Building, 5605 South Vine Street, Murray, Utah 84107. A viewing will be held at the same location before the funeral on Friday, November 28, 2025, from 10:45-11:45.
Interment will take place on Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 11:00 am at Utah Veterans Cemetery & Memorial Park, 17111 1700 W, Bluffdale, Utah 84065.
The family would like to thank Holly and Laura at True North Hospice as well as Mele, Pam, Karoline and her other end-of-life caregivers.
Services will be streamed live at https://jenkins-soffe.com/obituaries/elise-brown-2025
1933 - 2025
- Elise (Elyse) Lamoreaux Brown passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family at the age of 92 on November 24, 2025. Elise was born on May 3, 1933, in American Fork, Utah, to Thelma Williams Lamoreaux and David James Lamoreaux. She was the middle child of five siblings. The first four children were born close together, and they did many things together when they were young.
Her family moved frequently, living in several homes in Salt Lake City before moving to Spanish Fork when Elise started 6th grade. At Spanish Fork High School, Elise excelled academically and enjoyed music, speech, drama, and school dances. She had many close friends.
The summer between her junior and senior years of high school, she lived with a relative in Salt Lake City to earn some money for her senior year. On her way home from work one day, a car with three young adult men, including Lloyd, pulled up to talk to her. She went out dancing with the three of them that night, and later Lloyd asked her out on a formal date. They dated that summer and fall, sometimes with Lloyd picking her up in Spanish Fork and then having her stay with his family in Salt Lake City for the weekend. They became engaged in November 1950 and were married in the Salt Lake Temple on April 26, 1951, about one month before Elise graduated from high school.
They were blessed with five children. Elise was very young, only 18 years old, when their oldest daughter was born. It was a difficult adjustment at first, but she loved being a mother and embraced the role as the four later children were born. She often couldn't do everything she wanted to do because of health challenges, including arthritis, three back fusions, breast cancer, autoimmune problems, and knee and hip replacements.
Elise was a fiercely independent and determined woman. She threw herself into many creative projects and a wide variety of self-learning, such as floral arranging (including making arrangements for the RV shows for Lloyd's business). She loved organic gardening, landscape planning, sewing, canning, quilting, health and nutrition, and studying many topics. Even her novels were underlined and highlighted!
In addition, she served in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, planning large activities for the M Men and Gleaners as well as the Laurels and Explorers, creating spectacular road shows, and serving on the Service and Activities Committee for the Ward. She also served in ward and stake Young Women presidencies. In addition to supporting Lloyd through many Church leadership callings and business ups and downs, they also served together as senior service missionaries at the St. George Temple Visitor's Center and Historic Sites.
She absolutely loved to travel. Elise and Lloyd traveled all over the world, often with family. Her favorite places included England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and Australia. She also enjoyed playing cards and golfing. For many years, she organized and took annual family trips to Lake Powell (which were filled with fun and games and delicious meals and desserts, including ice cream puffs stored in a repurposed military blood bank-AKA, the Lake Powell deep freeze).
Elise lived a very full and active life as a younger adult, but as her health declined, she did less and less, particularly during her last twenty-five years.
Elise is survived by her loving and attentive husband, Lloyd; their five children, Shauna (Renard) Richter, Brad (Peggy) Brown, Blake (Diana) Brown, Lisa (Clark) Roper, and Tricia (Jeff) Peterson. They have 35 grandchildren; 60 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Marie, and her brothers Dee and Larry; only her brother Bill survives her.
Funeral services will be held Friday, November 28, 2025, at 12:00 pm at the South Cottonwood Ward Building, 5605 South Vine Street, Murray, Utah 84107. A viewing will be held at the same location before the funeral on Friday, November 28, 2025, from 10:45-11:45.
Interment will take place on Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 11:00 am at Utah Veterans Cemetery & Memorial Park, 17111 1700 W, Bluffdale, Utah 84065.
The family would like to thank Holly and Laura at True North Hospice as well as Mele, Pam, Karoline and her other end-of-life caregivers.
Services will be streamed live at https://jenkins-soffe.com/obituaries/elise-brown-2025
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
Published by Deseret News from Nov. 24 to Nov. 25, 2025.
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