Beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, daughter, colleague and friend, Virginia Lynn Clark Callister left mortality at her home in Provo, Utah on 17 of August 2024, at the age of 81. She died peacefully and looked forward to being reunited with her eternal companion Reed Richards Callister and our Savior Jesus Christ.

A favorite poem of hers by Dayle King Searle which she often shared with her children is:

"You're crazy," they said, "to aim for the

stars.

The stars are much, much too high."

"You're silly!" they shouted. "Look at

yourself;

You're human, you can't even fly."

And so as I jumped and sprang and

leaped,

Laughing they all stood around.

I did not reach the stars, as they said,

But at least my feet left the ground.

She was born on 19 of October 1942 in Washington, DC while her father served as secretary to Arizona Congressman John R. Murdock. She was the fifth of six children of Harold Glen CLark and Virginia Louisa Driggs. In 1946, her family moved to Utah, where her father became the first Dean of the Division of Continuing Education at Brigham Young University. Her mother died of cancer when Lynn was seven years old. Mary Deane Peterson Gilbert became her bonus mother when she married Lynn's father in December 1950. Mary Deane brought her two children, Paul and Lark, from her first marriage into the family, and a daughter, Rebecca, was born to them in 1953.

From an early age, Lynn knew for a certainty that one of the spiritual gifts she was sent to mortality with was the gift of nurturing and she LOVED developing that gift! She attended schools in Provo, Utah, graduating in nursing as magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1964. She married William Harris Scott on 30 June 1964 in the Salt Lake Temple and they became the parents of one son and four daughters. When their marriage ended, she went back to graduate school. Because of her great love for maternal newborn nursing she pursued advanced degrees, earning a master's degree at Wichita State University in 1988, and a PhD at University of Utah in 1993.

On 18 August 1989 she was sealed to Reed Richards "Dick" Callister in the Provo Temple. They brought together their eleven children and she joyfully loved his six children as her own. Through the years she happily nourished their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was privileged to nurse family members and friends in their final hours. She had the bittersweet and tender experience of caring for Dick in the final years of his life until he left mortality on 21 February 2018.

Her nursing career included becoming a professor of nursing with the title of Endowed Healer's Art Professor at BYU. How she loved mentoring young women and men in their formative years of learning the healer's art. In 2003 she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. In 2004 she was a Fulbright Scholar in St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation. In 2008 she was a visiting professor at the University of Jordan School of Nursing in Amman, Jordan. For 25 years she conducted cross-cultural studies of childbearing women globally. Her research has been widely published in professional journals. Some of her most treasured memories were giving culturally diverse childbearing women a voice and focusing on the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality. She gratefully received multiple national and international professional awards for her scholarly work, including the 2017 Collegium Aesculapium Foundation Nightingale Award. But for all her titles, she loved being called wife, mother, and grandmother the best.

All of her life she sought to exemplify her love of her Savior Jesus Christ by being an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She endeavored to faithfully serve as Primary and Relief Society president, stake Relief Society president in both Kansas and Utah, Seminary and Institute teacher, and Gospel Doctrine teacher. From 2005-2010 she served with her eternal companion Dick in the Provo Utah Missionary Training Center Russian Branch, and one year with the international missionaries in the MTC. From 2012-2013 they served a mission together in the Ukraine Kyiv Temple. This was a fulfillment of a dream they had to serve a mission in Eastern Europe.

She was preceded in death by her father, both of her mothers, siblings Carol Jean Ottesen, Lark Gilbert Cheesman and Harold Clark II, her eternal companion Dick, daughter Lucianne Losee, and her grand-daughters Anna and Hannah Scott.

She is survived by her siblings: Mary Louise Perry (Bob), Donald Driggs Clark (Mary), Paul Ensign Gilbert (Susan), Joseph William Clark (Marilee), and Rebecca Knudsen (Kurt). She is survived by her children: Stephen Callister (Kristine Bornais Rhodas), Mark Callister (Colette Williams), Carolyn Bailey (Bret), Gregory Callister, Suzanne Hooper (Lawrence), William Jared Scott (Heather French), Jonathan (Jenni Murdoch), Christine McDonald (Taylor), James (Kirsten Glazier), and Jenilynn Frizell (Duane), and 56 grandchildren (privileged to attend some of their births), and 14 great-grandchildren and more to come!

Family members will welcome visitors on Friday 23 of August, 2024 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Walker Sanderson Funeral Home , 646 East 800 North, Orem, Utah. Funeral services will be held on Saturday 24 of August, 2024 at 11:00 am with visitation from 9:30-10:30 am at the Sharon East Stake Center, 1060 East 2400 North, Provo, Utah. Interment will follow the funeral at Provo City Cemetery, 610 South State Street Provo, Utah.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Lynn Clark Callister Endowed Scholarship, Brigham Young University College of Nursing, would be appreciated.

Lynn would like to thank the nurses at Aspen Ridge of Utah Valley and Symbii Hospice for their compassionate care. You exemplify the healer's art. She'd also like to thank her family, friends and neighbors for their continual love and support.