Lorraine Lois Vincent Nielson

Lorraine Lois Vincent Nielson, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother passed away April 24, 2016.
She was born May 16, 1924, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Clement Leo Vincent and Helen Lois McQueen Vincent. She was married to Dwaine Arthur Nielson on March 21, 1947, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  As faithful members of the LDS Church, their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.
Just turning seventeen, Lorraine graduated from West High School in 1942 and began running an elevator at the Tribune Building.  So she could major in Business at the University of Utah, she worked in the mailroom at ZCMI.  After her sophomore year, she worked full-time for RKO Radio Pictures as a stenographer, and then switched to part-time work so she could complete a Commercial Education course at the U, graduating June 1947, two months after her marriage to Dwaine.  As teaching positions were scarce, she accepted a secretarial position for the State Board of Education.
Lorraine’s life revolved completely around her husband, her children, and her home. Her first two children were born in Salt Lake, where she lived in an unfinished house on a dirt road while her husband Dwaine worked on it nights and weekends after work. In 1953, the young family moved to Denver, Colorado, and rented a small home for a year awaiting the construction of a new home. Living in that new home for a mere eight months, AT&T transferred them to Rock Springs, where she birthed her third child. Transferred back to Denver, Lorraine had her fourth child, and then returned to Salt Lake in time for Christmas of 1963.
A devoted wife, mother to four, grandmother to eleven (all grandsons!), and great-grandmother to seventeen, Lorraine always put the needs of her family foremost, their success and happiness her greatest concern. As an only child, Lorraine was a faithful, loving daughter to her father in his illness, and to her mother in her old age. She nurtured her children in the gospel by her actions, and so valued education that twice a week she drove her children to the library, even through Wyoming snowstorms. She so loved to read that by the age of eight she had begun walking to the library by herself—and she has passed this love to her children. Always was she home when her children returned from school, and always did she support them in their studies. Because of her love for learning, all of her children graduated from the University of Utah. Her husband Dwaine frequently reminded his children that it was her hard work and tender care that turned their house into a home, and a “forever family.”
She enjoyed her various callings in the church, especially the many years she served in the Primary. She served as an indexer for 11 years in the German Extraction Program, and beginning in 1955 attended monthly meetings as a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.
As a child she had taken tap lessons, and her love for dance only grew through the years. She and her husband enjoyed dancing dates in their youth and joined a square dance group in Wyoming, and another in Utah. At Stake dances, the two of them moved with unbelievable grace. They loved to dance along to the Lawrence Welk Show, and even old age found the two of them dancing across the kitchen floor.
Lorraine loved to visit historical sites, and relished the opportunity out-of-town visitors presented to re-visit Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah sites. She loved to travel with her husband and visited many foreign countries as well as many parts of the United States.
A passionate lover of cats and dogs, Lorraine could often be seen walking her beloved Rosie down Wanda Way or singing her songs as the Chihuahua lie nestled in her lap.
Preceded in death by her father, mother, and husband, Lorraine is survived by two daughters Linda Ann (Gilbert) Eppich and Laureen Lois (Steven) Carlson, and two sons Gerald Arthur (Peggy) and David Duane (Paul P. O’Brien).
The family would like to thank Dick and Marilyn Taylor, Rich and Nancy Harper, Kirsten Burt, and Anne Marie Oborn for the years of loving care they gave to Mom. Thanks also to Heritage Place and to Tiersa and Whitney of Envision Hospice for their love and care, and to the Holladay McDonald’s family.
Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, April 30th, 11:00 a.m. at the Holladay Tenth Ward, 4601 South Chapel St. (2565 East), Holladay, Utah.
Friends may call on Friday, April 29th, from 6:00—7:30 p.m. at the Holladay Cottonwood Mortuary, 4670 Highland Drive, Holladay, and on Saturday at the Holladay Tenth Ward at 10:00 a.m. before the service.
Interment will be in the Holladay Memorial Cemetery, 4900 South Memory Lane (2000 East), Holladay. Memories may be shared at www.memorialutah.com
Service Information
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Holladay Tenth Ward, 4601 South Chapel St (2565 East), Holladay, UT





Funeral Service
April 30, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Holladay Tenth Ward, 4601 South Chapel St (2565 East), Holladay, UT