LaDell Guy Brown

This young man is turning 80!
LaDell Guy Brown will be celebrating his 80th birthday on Sept. 23, 2017. An open house honoring LaDell will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 2-4 p.m. at the Garden Cove LDS Chapel, located at 1925 West 9000 South West Jordan, Utah 84088. Come join us in celebration of this milestone! Refreshments will be served. No gifts please. Just bring your memories of LaDell.
LaDell was born in 1937 to Guy Adelbert Brown and Mary Jane Jones, in Huntington Utah. He graduated from North Emery High School in 1955, and served an LDS mission to the Southwest Indian Mission. He married Eleanor Nielson in the Manti Temple on July 16, 1960. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from BYU in 1963 and his Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Utah in 1966. He began his career as a Clinical Social Worker in Price Utah, for the welfare department. After a move to Bishop, Calif., he became administrative director of a new mental health clinic. He then took a job in Tooele Utah as director of a newly organized mental health clinic. He retired from this clinic at the end of 1999, after a total of 36 years of service.
LaDell served as an LDS Bishop in Bishop, Calif. and later as a Bishop of the Erda ward, in Erda Utah. He also served as President of the Grantsville Utah Stake and most recently as Branch President of the Glendale Branch, which is located in a Federal halfway house in Salt Lake City.
In June 1994, LaDell was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. In a Priesthood Blessing, LaDell was told that he would go into remission and live a long and productive life. The promises pronounced in that blessing have been realized.
LaDell raised his family mostly in Erda, located in Tooele County. He and Eleanor have recently moved to a retirement community in West Jordan Utah. His hobbies are puttering around in the yard, reading, Genealogy, and spending time with his seven children, 37 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren, with one more expected in October 2017.
Happy 80th birthday LaDell! We love you!