Cumorah Gordon Holdaway left this earth on August 10, 2020 at 4:53 AM. She turned 91 years old this year. She was born January 9, 1929 in Orem, Utah, to Curtis E Gordon and Minnie Elizabeth Crandall. She was the seventh child of seven girls and one boy. She and her sisters and brother lived on a fruit farm working shoulder to shoulder alongside their parents. Their dad made the early morning picking fruit fun by singing all the time. She loved playing softball. She played her best game at age 60, when in one inning she made all three outs.
Cumorah attended school in Orem at Spencer Elementary and then Sharon Elementary then to Lincoln High School. She met Robert Eugene Holdaway the first day of seventh grade. They knew each other and were friends and did things together in their boy/girl groups, but did not officially date until the football banquet in the 11th grade. She was involved in musical programs and singing in a sextet all through High School. She and Robert graduated together at Lincoln High School seminary and High School. They both attended BYU, Cumorah for only one year. She worked for Dr. Richins as the receptionist and bookkeeper until she and Robert were married and sealed on August 17, 1949 in the Salt Lake Temple.
They lived in Vineyard all of their lives and loved being there. Cumorah loved being on the farm with Robert and his dad, driving the truck and harvesting crops. She loved gardening. She served in the PTA and served in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in many callings. She was Stake Young Women's President for nine years.
She enjoyed singing, especially with two of her sisters, Jenny and Libby, known as the Gordon sisters. She accompanied her father on the piano when he sang for funerals, weddings, building dedications, etc. She always enjoyed being involved in music.
She loved all her friends and good people in the Farm Bureau organization. She and Robert loved to travel with her friends to conventions and took extended trips to many countries.
She dearly loves her siblings Alta, Susie, Maxine, Jenny, her only brother Dee, Libby, and her sister Dixie. Dixie is the only one alive still. Cumorah and Robert have 5 children and their spouses, Karen Stewart, Brent (deceased) and Reta Holdaway, Keith and Joni Holdaway, Sherrie-Kaye and David Miller, and JaNae and Nate Riley. Cumorah has 32 grandchildren and 75 great grandchildren. She dearly loves each and every one of them.
Cumorah loves America. She is one of the best flag-waving Americans you will ever meet.
Cumorah Gordon Holdaway has an incredible testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She loves our Savior.
A visitation for both will be held Friday, August 14, 2020 from 5:00 – 8:30 pm at Walker Sanderson Funeral Home, 646 East 800 North, Orem, Utah. Funeral Services will be held Saturday, August 15, 2020, 10:00 a.m. at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theater, 600 South 400 East, Orem, Utah. Masks are encouraged along with Social Distancing. Interment will be in Provo City Cemetery. Condolences and memories may be offered to the family at www.walkersanderson.com