Priscilla Pearl Layton Hansen Wallace
Priscilla Pearl Layton Hansen Wallace, 93, longtime Moses Lake resident, passed away peacefully at her home in the presence of many family members on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Moses Lake Stake Center, 1515 So. Division Street with Bishop Reid Baker conducting. Interment will follow in Pioneer Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are in care of Kayser's Chapel & Crematory, Moses Lake.
Viewing will take place at the funeral home on Tuesday, Oct. 3, from noon until 7 p.m.
The family will greet friends at the funeral home on Tuesday evening from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. and at the church on Wednesday morning from 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 a.m.
Pearl was born April 9, 1913 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of James Myron and Sarah Sherwood Layton.
She was raised along with her younger brothers and sisters on her parent's farm in Glenwoodville. Pearl served an LDS mission in the Northwest States Mission.
She married Willard Glen Hansen on March 31, 1937 in Kalispell, Mont., and over the next twenty years was blessed with eight sons and six daughters. In 1954 the family moved from Cardston, Alberta, Canada to Moses Lake where the last three of her fourteen children were born. Several years after Glen's death she married Wayne Corliss Wallace.
She was an active member of the LDS Church. She enjoyed loving and patiently nurturing her family and taught them the love of music, service, forgiveness and sacrifice for others. Other things she enjoyed were fabric painting, knitting, crocheting, and sharing her meals with impromptu guests and friends.
She was loved and respected by all who knew her for her humility, faith, integrity, ability to endure and for her unconditional love, loyalty and friendship. Pearl will truly be missed by all whose lives she touched.
Surviving Pearl are her 14 children Glenroy (Helen) Hansen of Redmond; Willard (Brenda) Hansen of West Jordan, Utah; Phillip Hansen of Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Karen (Paul) Isaacson of Wendell, Idaho; Raymond (Sandi) Hansen of Moses Lake; "Sunny" (Mike) Oaks of East Wenatchee; Howard (Mary) Hansen of Mesa, Ariz.; Priscilla Verner of Redmond; Shannon (Walt) Denton, West Jordan, Utah; Morgan (Roberta) Hansen of Moses Lake; Janine (Richard) Mecham of Salt Lake City, Utah; Don Hansen, Moses Lake; Ron (Mary) Hansen of Renton; Sarah Lou (Dean) Dudley of Walden, N.Y.; along with numerous grandchildren, great grand-children and great-great grandchildren.
She is also survived by her sister Gila Bunnage of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and her two brothers, Lowell (LaDean) Layton of Moses Lake, and Golden (Virginia) Layton of Glenwood, Alberta, Canada,
Besides her husbands and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, a sister and several grandchildren.