Roy Eldon Tew passed peacefully from this life while at home with his wife on February 26, 2018. Roy was a descendant of Mormon Pioneers. He was born of goodly parents, William Thomas Tew Jr. and Jennie Maud Houtz Tew at their home in Fillmore, Utah on March 6, 1924. When he was about one year of age his family moved to Mapleton, Utah where he spent most of his youth. He loved growing up in the beautiful small town of Mapleton, that had a population then of about 650. It was mostly farms and orchards during his youth. Roy worked on the farm for most of his youth for about $1 per day hoeing and topping beets. His father served as Mission President for the East Central States Mission. During that period Roy and his family lived in Louisville, KY. He attended the World's Fair in both 1939 and 1940. Roy graduated from Springville High School in 1942. He loved his dogs: Champ, Ring, and Buster. He loved fishing and also hunting. He admired his father's long octagon barreled 30-30. He bought his own rifle while he was still young. For a short time he worked on the construction of the Geneva Steel plant in Orem. For a period of time during the early days of WWII he worked at Hill Field repairing OX5 inline airplane engines as well as radial engines from WWI. Roy and three of his High School classmates later volunteered to join the Army Air Corps (WWII) where Roy served until being discharged in November of 1945. About two years were spent in training. He graduated second in his class of 637 Cadets from Navigation School for which he received the LaRoche Memorial Trophy. After graduating from Navigation School he was sent overseas to Guam where he served as a Navigator on a B-29. He and his crew flew 25 bombing missions over Japan. Each mission was 12 to 16 hours long. While flying these bombing missions two of his crew of eleven were killed. The crew was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for recognition of heroism under fire. The Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clusters were also received. He also had many other near fatal experiences during the war. Even before going overseas while training at Pyote, Texas his plane had two engines quit immediately after takeoff and they had to crash-land at night with wheels up in the sagebrush desert carrying practice bombs, which fortunately were not yet armed. After the War, he attended BYU where he met the "love of his life", Verna Vee Lynn. They were married in the SLC Temple on April 13, 1949. They traveled the Alcan Highway to Alaska for their honeymoon. He and his beautiful wife enjoyed a great life together for nearly 69 years. They loved to travel and have visited every state in the Union, and every Providence of Canada except two. They also traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico, and particularly in Russia. Roy graduated from BYU in 1952 with a Major in Mathematics and a minor in Chemistry. He was awarded membership in the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Shortly after graduating he and his wife and three children moved to Richland, WA where he worked as a mathematician for General Electric Company at the Handford Atomic works. Opportunities presented themselves for advancement that would have meant living back east and/or in San Francisco and traveling the world. Roy and Verna Vee decided they wanted to live in Utah. Roy loved the Mapleton Mountain (Spanish Fork Peak or Sierra Bonita). He loved to hunt deer there as a boy and as a man. He and his boyhood friends spent time at Oak Springs, swimming in the canal, ice skating on the "Big Hollow", and climbing the mountain. In the early years of Roy's marriage he worked as a plant manager for Alaska Concrete Company in both Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska. He and his young family would travel the Alcan Highway when it was just a dirt and gravel road and spend the summers working there. Roy loved Alaska. Roy started the Roy Tew Construction Company. He spent the next 50 years building homes and apartments in Utah. As a building contractor he built over 350 homes and 56 apartment units. In addition he did some remodeling and other work over the years. He built as far south as Fillmore, Utah and as far north as Bountiful, Utah. He developed a fine reputation for honesty and providing value to his customers. For over 25 years Roy enjoyed fun with family and friends at the cabin he built East of Oakley, Utah at Pine Mountain. It was a favorite gathering place. Roy and Verna Vee had groups of close friends and wonderful neighbors that they loved to be with throughout the decades. Roy was loved as a husband, father, son, brother, grandfather, uncle, cousin and a friend to many. Periodically he reunited with his friends and crew from WWII. Roy was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He fulfilled many callings. Neighbors, friends, and customers knew him for his many acts of service and generosity. His favorite scripture was 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 about love. Preceding Roy in death were his parents Jenny and William Tew, his in-laws LaPrele and Orin Lynn, his siblings: Merlene (Tom) Calarusso, Naoma Rowan, Helen (Lee) Stirland, Thirl (Dorothy) Tew, Dean (Myrna Lee) Tew and brother-in-Law Robert Welch. Roy is survived by his wife Verna Vee Tew, his four children (Lynda Tew, Bliss Tew, Chris Tew, and Marcy Woodley), 9 grandchildren (Adrienne Miller, Ryan Tew, Peter Tew, Collin Tew, Lara Reed, Hanna Woodley, and Jesse Woodley--two grandchildren, Ashley Forrest Tew and Adam Roy Woodley preceded him in death), 9 great grandchildren (Kiara Tew, Brooklyn Tew, Cody Gappmayer, Arthur Miller, Ethan Tew, Lilly Tew, Olivia Tew, Jack Tew, Kennedy Tew), and one great, great grandchild, Maci Marie Gappmayer. He is also survived by his brother Ronald Kay Tew (Farris) and sister-in-law, Arlene Welch, sister-in-law Yolande Tew as well as numerous nieces, nephews and others.