Alma Dawn Anderson Orrock, born October 31, 1930 in Salina, Utah to Alma Adolph Anderson and Venice Foote Anderson, passed away on May 25, 2020 from causes incident to age. She entered this world on a day that everyone celebrates with an abundance of candy, and made her exit on a day that is celebrated with an abundance of flowers. Sweet timing, Mom!

Dawn married Scott G. Orrock in the Salt Lake Temple on June 8, 1949. They raised their children in Provo, Utah, Pomona, California, and Tuba City and Page, Arizona. They retired to St. George, resided in American Fork, and months before Scott’s passing in 2006, settled in Springville, Utah.

Prior to her passing, all eleven children were able to gather and express to our beautiful mother our gratitude for raising us in homes filled with love, kindness, compassion, and good manners and where we learned the proper way to clean a bathroom and keep a white carpet stain free.

Mom loved people. She made friends in the wards and neighborhoods where she lived as well as grocery store lines where she stood or doctor’s offices where she waited. She loved serving her sisters during the four times she served as Relief Society President.

Mom loved all things outdoors and passed this love of nature on to her children and grandchildren. The smell of petunias brought her to tears, the scent of pine stopped her in her tracks, the approach of an oncoming storm thrilled her, and she could watch trees sway in the wind for hours. And how perfect that her beloved lilacs were blooming outside her window during her last days on earth.

She also passed down to her posterity her love of reading. Mom was a voracious reader of the scriptures, history, biographies, mysteries, and a good, clean romance. Now that she is on the other side (and can remember everything she has read), she could put us all to shame with the knowledge she has acquired through this favorite pastime.

We will miss listening to beautiful music and watching her favorite movies together. We will miss the excitement she expressed when looking over a well-designed floor plan or garden space, receiving any gift she was given, and enjoying rides we took her on.

Our angel mother was taken care of so tenderly and capably by our sister Kathy and her daughter Jackie whose goal was that their mother and grandmother would “want for nothing.” It is impossible to express our overwhelming gratitude to Kathy and Jackie, whose tireless service made that happen.

Dawn is survived by her 11 children: Lana Putman (Parrish), Lynne (Kim) LeBaron, David (Julie) Orrock, Susan (Jon) White, Kathy (Dave) Pruett, Carol (Dan) Stephan, Jim Orrock, Diane (Larry) Justice, Kristen (Shawn) Brittain, Sandra (Byron) Marquez, Steven (Amanda) Orrock. Also surviving are 53 of her 54 grandchildren, and 113 of her 115 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Scott, her sister, Jean Keller, and her infant brother, John Horner.

A family-only graveside service will be held at East Lawn Memorial Hills.

Interment

East Lawn Memorial Hills