Linda Kay Christensen Johnson

On Saturday, August 13, 2022, our beloved mother, Linda Kay Christensen Johnson, 75, passed away peacefully in her home in Orem, Utah from end stage renal failure. She was surrounded by her family at her passing.

Linda is the daughter of Donnell Christensen and Grace LaRue Hansen Christensen Carter. She was born on February 27, 1947, in Provo, Utah. She met her husband, Lloyd Johnson, when she worked at Frosty's as a carhop as a senior in high school. After a short courtship and engagement, they were married in Orem, Utah on July 1, 1965. They were later sealed in the Manti Utah Temple on December 5, 1970. Together they made their home in Orem, Utah. She is the proud mother of six children and grandmother of thirteen grandchildren.

Linda was blessed and fortunate to be a stay at home mother while raising her children. She was a devoted wife and mother, and exemplified the role of motherhood. She was an excellent cook! Her family loved coming home to the smell of fresh baked bread, homemade soups, and applesauce chocolate chip cookies.

Linda loved spending time with her family and together with her husband, they took the family camping and on many exciting and memorable vacations. She could pack the trailer in a moment's notice and be ready for the next adventure. Linda also loved going on cruises with her husband and getting to see new and exotic places.

In 1990, Lloyd and Linda purchased a vacation home in Fountain Green Utah, and loved taking their family and friends to the country on weekends, holidays, and extended trips in the summers. Together, they taught their children the value of hard work. They were able to connect as a family and built many family bonds that strengthened and shaped who they became from this experience. Linda always loved going to Fountain Green with her children and grandchildren and treasured every moment she spent there.

Linda became a young widow after her husband died suddenly of a heart attack on February 28, 1998. She still had four children living at home at the time. She quickly learned her husband's heating and air conditioning business and kept it going with the help of her sons for many years. One year after his death, Linda went to work for Central Bank in Orem. She enjoyed working there for 15 years and made many lifelong friends. Linda retired early in January 2014 when one of her granddaughters was born 10 weeks early and needed extra loving care from her grandma, so her daughter could go back to work.

While Linda only gave birth to six children, there are many, many more that call her "mom". She raised and nurtured many neighborhood children, coworkers from the bank, cousins, and anyone else that needed a little extra love. She always had more love to go around, and opened her home and heart to those she loved.

Linda served in many presidencies and leadership roles in many of the organizations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints throughout her life. She especially enjoyed working with the young women and provided a loving and nurturing influence in their lives. Linda created deep bonds with many of the young women she served that have extended beyond her years of serving them.

Linda was highly involved with her children's education. She served on the PTA in many capacities for all the years that her children were in elementary school, and made more homemade meals for the teachers for parent teacher conferences than anyone could count. She could always be found at the kitchen table helping a child with homework. Later, when her daughters became teachers, Linda spent many hours cutting out lamination, coloring pages, and helping with all the endless school projects.

Linda was very detail oriented and had the amazing ability to plan and carry out large events and parties. She put on many family reunions, ward parties, school carnivals, work events and girls camp experiences. Linda always made sure that whatever she was planning and working on became a family affair. She included her family in whatever she was doing and taught them to love and serve others.

Linda loved to read! She always had a book that she was reading and found pleasure in getting lost in a good story. She also loved going to the theater and watching different musicals and plays with her family. Linda attended all of her children's and grandchildren's concerts, performances, plays and events that she was invited to and loved seeing their talents grow. She always said that every performer needs an audience, and she was happy to be in that audience.

Though her family and friends will miss her dearly, we know that she is happy and reunited again with her dear husband, Lloyd Johnson, her parents, Donnell Christensen and Grace LaRue Hansen Christensen Carter, her stepfather, Clifford Carter, and her brother, Richard Christensen.

She is survived by her children, Mark (April) Johnson, Scott (Laura) Johnson, Shelly Johnson, Kristen (Mark) Baumgarten, David Johnson and Nathan (Marisa) Johnson; thirteen grandchildren; her aunt Cora Hansen Cooley; and many cousins and relatives that she loved with all her heart.

Services will include a viewing on Friday, August 19, 2022, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the church building at 225 East 200 North in Orem, Utah. An additional viewing will be held on Saturday from 9:30 - 10:30 am, with a funeral service to follow at 11:00 am at the same location. The funeral will be broadcast on the Walker Sanderson website at https://www.walkersanderson.com/webcast. Interment will be at the Orem City Cemetery.