Great Grandma Salisbury

Travis's Grandma Salisbury passed away. She was such a sweet lady, she will be missed!

Our beloved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Margaret (Peggy) Russell Salisbury, 87, of Pasco, Washington, passed away peacefully on September 26, 2012. She was born on March 29, 1925, in Leominster, Massachusetts to Chester Gray Russell and Grace Edith Hill. She graduated from Leominster High School in Leominster, MA in 1943. In high school, she was a member of the Honor Society and played basketball and lacrosse. She also served as a class officer and worked on the yearbook. Upon graduation, Peggy secured a good job as a secretary to the Manager of the USO club just outside Fort Devens, MA. She worked there until just a few months after the war ended. That is where she met a handsome, wavy-haired, red-headed soldier boy from Utah, Lyman B. Salisbury.

They were married January 24, 1947 in Newton, Utah. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Logan Temple on February 2, 1949.

She and Lyman lived in Logan, UT while going to college. Afterwards they moved to various locations in southern California. In 1956, Lyman’s name was drawn out to select a farm in the Columbia Basin Project. Peggy did not want to move but she was told by her husband that he was going with or without her. They moved to Block 19 and Peggy later became active in the Block 19 Homemakers Club. They cleared away sagebrush and rocks and began farming. She drove a school bus for many years while the farm was getting established. She worked long hours on the farm and yard and did her best to raise her family and teach them sound principles and values.

Peggy was a convert to and became an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and Lyman served two missions to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. They served in the office in the Tampa, Florida Mission, and Beehive Clothing in Pasco. These missions blessed their family as much as it did those they so lovingly served.

Peggy had a great love for music, genealogy, ice cream and gardening. She would often be found playing the piano for her own enjoyment or accompanying someone else who was singing. She gave many piano lessons to her children, grandchildren and neighbors. She loved to work in her yard and would plant a garden every year. She liked to make cookies and was never too full to eat one or more. She was also very proud of all of her grandchildren's accomplishments.

She is survived by five children, Mark (Sherri), Basin City, WA, Scott (Terri), Kennewick, WA, Karen (Gary) Miller, of Pasco, WA, Jane (Scott) Boyle, Kaysville, UT, and John (Krista), Basin City. She is also survived by 22 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by husband, Lyman; parents, her step-fathers, her brother, Walter, and wife, Grace, a son, Kent, and two granddaughters, Alicia and Rochelle.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, October 4, 2012, at 10 a.m. at the Basin City LDS Church, 160 Bailie Blvd. Friends and Family may visit Wednesday, October 3, 2012, from 6-8 p.m. at Mueller’s Greenlee Funeral Home, 1608 W. Court in Pasco, WA or Thursday, 9:00-9:45 a.m. at the church. Interment will be at the Basin City Country View Cemetery.