Genevieve Hegsted Twitchell Wayment
OGDEN –Genevieve (Gen) Hegsted Wayment born May 14, 1919 in Joseph, Oregon, died at her home in Ogden with her husband and family at her side November 28, 2008.
As a little girl Gen moved with her prospector father and family from Joseph, to Lewiston, Idaho to Quincy, California then to Ogden which she loved.
Gen was married to Ernest Twitchell from 1936 to his death in 1968 and was married to Rollo Wayment from 1983 till her death, two wonderful marriages in one beautiful lifetime.
Except for some colorful years living in a sheep camp or on railroad sections in Lucin and Lakeside Utah, her married years were spent in the same lovely and charming Ogden neighborhood.
Friend, Wife, Sister, Mom, Aunt and Grandma, Gen was a poem of womanhood, old school tough as nails and loving, tender and spiritual in all her thoughts, ways and actions.
Gen, one of our best examples of the greatest generation, forged in the great depression, case hardened by conditions we cannot imagine, lived her life in every measure at a level above and beyond our common understanding of duty and devotion, whether caring for members of a large extended family, tending a dying aunt or brother, donating to the needy, or thrilling at the site of a quail in the front yard.
Gen worked in canning factories, in several of Ogden’s stores, in the hospital as a nurse’s aid, and at HAFB from which she retired in 1985.
Consider yourself fortunate if you knew Gen, or someone like her, because they enrich your life.
Preceding Gen in her death are her first husband Ernest Twitchell, a great-grandson, Cort Elliott and her brothers and sisters Marie, Kenneth, Josephine, Neilsena, Keith, Carl and Melvin.
Surviving are Gen’s husband Rollo Wayment, sister Lorraine Garcia, daughter Tamara Twitchell and her daughters Amber and Tiffany, son Roger Twitchell and his wife Kara, their daughters Marty Elliott and husband Chris, and Carley Reynolds and husband Alex. Marty is the mother of Gen’s great grandson Wyatt (4yrs old) and is pregnant with Gen’s great-grand twins; Carley is pregnant with Gen’s next great-grandchild and by late spring Gen will have four great-grandchildren on the Twitchell side. Rollo is blessed to have five surviving children who have also been Gen’s children for the past 25 years, Steve Wayment and his wife Noreen, Dave Wayment and his wife Jillene, Bryan Wayment and his wife Linda, Lynnette and her husband Sheldon Harris and Craig Wayment. Rollo’s children are blessed with many children, grand children and great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Blvd. in Ogden. Friends may call at Myers Mortuary on Wednesday, December 3rd from 6 to 8 p.m. and on Thursday from 10 to 10:45 a.m.
In lieu of flowers please donate to the Humane Society, 4242 South 300 West Murray, UT 84107, www.utahhumane.org. Adopt a pet, or feed the birds this winter.
Internment, Ogden City Cemetery.
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