Elaine Tucker Harston

Our beloved Mother, Elaine Tucker Harston, passed away on June 12, 2021, in Draper, near Salt Lake City, Utah due to incidents of age, at 97 years old. Elaine was born April 9, 1924, in Emblem, Wyoming to Asahel Andrew Tucker and Orva Irene (Perry) Tucker. She was raised in the home of a beekeeper during the Depression. She attended the University of Wyoming and became an elementary school teacher in Cowley, Wyoming during World War II.  She met and married Clive Richards Harston in the Salt Lake Temple August 17, 1944.
Elaine and Clive resided in Bozeman, Montana for several years where Clive was a Professor at Montana State University. Together they moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina where for five years Clive taught graduate students the principles of agricultural economics and marketing under the foreign aid programs of the US Department of State. Elaine would accompany Clive on similar assignments in Barbados, Fiji, China, and other third world countries over a span of forty years. The Harstons moved to Bryan, Texas where Dr. Harston was a Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. They resided in Bryan from 1970 to 1993.  After Clive’s death in 1993, Elaine resided in Holladay and South Jordan, Utah.
Family and friends will remember Elaine as soft spoken, graceful, kind, generous, warm, artistic, with a clever wit.  Elaine was happy at home with her family, surrounded by music, painting, gardening, and keeping track of her posterity. She was an artist, a hostess, a piano teacher, and a wonderful cook. She was a faithful daughter of God and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many teaching, service and temple callings.
Elaine was preceded in death by her husband Clive and son Dr. Craig T Harston in 2018.  She is survived by her son Dr. Dennis T. Harston of Draper, Utah, daughters Linda L. Harston of South Jordan, Utah, Susan K. Morgan of Houston, Texas, and Annette Gardner of Hurricane, Utah.  She is also survived by her sister Elsie Lynn Gold of California. Elaine has 23 grandchildren and 51 great-grandchildren. The family would like to thank her daughter, Linda, who remained at her side throughout her life.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at the River Ridge 8th Ward, 1409 West Shields Lane, South Jordan, Utah with viewing at 10am and service at 11am.  Interment will be in the Memorial Holladay Cemetery, 4900 South Memory Lane, Holladay, Utah, under the direction of Memorial Holladay-Cottonwood Mortuary.
Service Information
Viewing June 19, 2021 at 10:00-10:45 AM
1409 West Shields Lane, South Jordan, Utah





Funeral Service
June 19, 2021 at 11:00 AM
1409 West Shields Lane, South Jordan, Utah