Janet Sale Brown Lear

Janet Sale BrownLear 1946 ~ 2003  Janet Sale Brown Lear passed away Oct11, 2003, in Salt Lake City,  after a courageous battle with colon cancer.    She was born January 22, 1946, in Salt Lake City, the fourth of seven children and only daughter of Dr. Moroni H. and Cherry Sale Brown. She married Phillip Wm. Lear June 6, 1968, in the Salt Lake Temple. Janet graduated East High School and the University of Utah. She affiliated with Mu Phi Epsilon professional music fraternity and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She was an elementary school teacher, homemaker, juvenile court volunteer, and assistant editor in the Curriculum Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She performed violin throughout Utah and played most recently with the Mormon Symphony. She was a lifelong member of the LDS Church.   Janet will be remembered for her faith, passion for music, selflessness, gratitude, optimism, dignity, sense of humor, and non-judgmental nature. She was deeply devoted to, and profoundly loved by, her husband, children, extended family, church, and community.   She is survived by her husband, Phillip; three children, Wm. Preston (Angela), Katherine Maxwell (Daniel), Jonathan (Kelly); six brothers, Adam Brown (Loretta), Jesse Brown (Virginia), Dwight Brown (Fredi), Daniel Brown (Cynthia), Lynn Brown, Matthew Brown (Barbara); and one grandchild, Madeline Maxwell. She is preceded in death by her parents.   Funeral services will be held at noon, Wednesday, October 15, 2003; at the Federal Heights Meetinghouse, 1300 East Fairfax Road (300 North Virginia Street), Salt Lake City. Friends may call from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 14, 2003, Larkin Mortuary, 208 East South Temple Street, and 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., at the Federal Heights Meetinghouse. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.    Special appreciation to IHC Home Care and Wade Mitchell.   Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Salt Lake County 3rd District Juvenile Court, 450 South State, P.O. Box 140431, Salt Lake City, UT 84114.