Gwen Ellis Stephens

Gwen Ellis Stephens died Dec 13, 2022 in Danville, CA.  She was born Dec 16, 1924, in Standardville, UT, to Asa Lynwood Ellis and Silva Larsen.  Her family moved to Ogden where she attended kindergarten through high school, graduating from Weber High in May, 1942. 

Gwen married Lee Melvin Stephens on April 4, 1945, in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Gwen was preceded in death by her husband, Lee and sister Jeanne Ellis Frost (Chauncey).  She is survived by her brother, James Lynwood Ellis (Dorey), her four children Dale Scott Stephens (Joanna), Kathleen Harvey (Edward), Lynette Larson (James) and Mark Ellis Stephens (Robin), 15 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. 

She was a woman of Christ-like service and will be greatly missed. 

Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at Leavitt’s Mortuary 836 36^th Street, Ogden, Utah.