This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Pugmire, Hemmert, Hirsbrunner Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1583 Message Board Post: Lenard Williams Lenard David Williams, 65, passed away Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005, at his home in Mendon surrounded by his loving family. He fought a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born March 9, 1940, in Montpelier, Idaho, to David Lyndon Williams and Golda Lorena Pugmire. Lenard attended the Montpelier-area schools and graduated from Bear Lake High School. He married Lois Hemmert in the Logan LDS Temple on June 1, 1960. Together they had four children, David, Joyce, Dawn and Daniel. They were later divorced. He married Lora Hirsbrunner Keetch on March 10, 1978, and played an important part in helping raise Lora’s children from a previous marriage. In his younger years, he raced snowmobiles. He enjoyed horseback riding and camping and had a great love for flying his airplanes and helicopters and giving others rides. He received the most enjoyment from helping others around him. Throughout the years, Lenard has been employed in different occupations. He spent several years in a sawmill business in Cache Valley and Heber city. He was employed by Flare Construction and Rees’s Metal Works in Coalville, Utah, as a pipeline welder, until he suffered a back injury in 1989. Lenard was a faithful and devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many callings, including a ward clerk, stake missionary (twice), home teacher and on the activities committee. He is survived by his wife, Lora; children, James (Shellie) Keetch of Coalville, Utah, Dawn (Perry) Berensen of Lincoln, Calif., Danny Schwerdt of Vallejo, Calif., Stacie (Kelly) Wright of Morgan, Utah, and Linda (Russel) Preece of Smithfield. He is also survived by 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters at infancy, his only brother, an infant son, a daughter and a stepdaughter. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, at the Mendon 1st Ward chapel, 20 N. 100 West. Friends and family may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Nelson Funeral Home, 162 E. 400 North, Logan, and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to services Friday at the church. Interment will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the Wardboro Cemetery, Wardboro, Idaho. Condolences may be extended to the family online at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com.