1936
Stanley
2019
Stanley Carpenter Jorgenson
June 16, 1936 — July 12, 2019
Stanley Carpenter Jorgenson passed away on the evening of July 12, 2019, at the age of 83. He is survived by his brother Sherrell, by his daughter, Tamara, and by his grandsons, Jeremy (m. Jessica, child: Tristen), Brandon (m. Caralee, children: Colton, Boston, Branson), and Christopher (m. Amber, children: Emersyn, Ayva). Stan was born on the 16th of June, 1936. He was one of 5 children in the Hyrum Willis and Pearl La Rue Carpenter Jorgenson family. Stan was raised in the small community of Peoa in the Wasatch Back surrounded by mountains and foothills and clear running streams. Paradise for a growing boy with a love of the outdoors and a thirst for adventure. He developed an early love for hunting and fishing. He wandered the nearby streams chasing fat trout and explored the nearby hills in search of deer and elk.
As a young man, Stan enlisted in the army serving as an army cook in Texas. He quickly earned an excellent reputation. Many high-ranking officers visiting the mess hall for their meals asked for him by name. While in the army, Stan met and married his first wife, Rosalie Fitches, on February 14, 1955. Together they welcomed their daughter Tamara into the world. Though the marriage was not destined to survive, Stan’s pride in his daughter never wavered.
Upon his discharge from the army, Stan returned to Utah and worked as an orderly at the VA hospital in Salt Lake City. It was at the hospital that he worked with and fell in love with Ida Mockli who would be by his side until her death three months prior to Stan’s passing. They married on January 15, 1960. Stan and Ida were friends, companions, fellow adventurers, public servants in their communities, and each faithful in his or her own way to their religion. Inseparable in their lives during fifty-nine years of marriage, in death, by the grace of god, they are reunited.
As Stan and Ida began their life together, Stan was also beginning a twenty-seven year career as a police officer. As an officer for the Salt Lake City Police Department, Stan worked in a SWAT unit, served as a motorcycle cop, and finished his career in the motor pool. He remained an avid motorcycle rider throughout his life and one of his proudest possessions was his BMW bike that had originally been ordered by the actor Harrison Ford. However, Stan’s blood must have been blue because, after retirement, he spent another ten years with the police department as a civilian employee preparing cases for prosecution.
Stan hunted most of his life. He harvested numerous deer and elk for the dinner table and was a crack shot on upland game including multiple Dakota trips for pheasant hunting. Stan was a fixture in the trap shooting community for decades. His home was littered with championship trophies from local and regional shooting competitions throughout the West during his forty-six years of competition. His induction into the Utah Trap Shooting Hall of Fame was a testament to his dedication to his sporting community and to his skill with a smoothbore long gun.
Stan will always be remembered as a family man. He remained devoted to his daughter Tamara, his three grandsons, their wives and their children. Among their childhood memories were trips to Brown’s Park to explore untamed places similar to those that were so important to Stan in his youth.
Stan’s life was enriched through his many friends, neighbors, members of his ward, and colleagues, including so many who were there to offer unselfish help during his latter years when the insults of age finally slowed him down. Lucky are those who also knew him when he was young and full of grit.
A viewing will be held at the Canyon Rim 2nd Ward (3100 E 3000 South, SLC) on Wednesday, July 17, 6:00pm-8:00pm, and Thursday, July 18 10:00am-10:45am. Funeral services will follow at 11:00am.Service Information
Viewing July 17, 2019 at 6:00-8:00 PM
3100 E 3000 S, Salt Lake City
Viewing July 18, 2019 at 10:00 AM
3100 E 3000 S, Salt Lake City
Funeral Service
July 18, 2019 at 11:00 AM
3100 E 3000 S, Salt Lake City
As a young man, Stan enlisted in the army serving as an army cook in Texas. He quickly earned an excellent reputation. Many high-ranking officers visiting the mess hall for their meals asked for him by name. While in the army, Stan met and married his first wife, Rosalie Fitches, on February 14, 1955. Together they welcomed their daughter Tamara into the world. Though the marriage was not destined to survive, Stan’s pride in his daughter never wavered.
Upon his discharge from the army, Stan returned to Utah and worked as an orderly at the VA hospital in Salt Lake City. It was at the hospital that he worked with and fell in love with Ida Mockli who would be by his side until her death three months prior to Stan’s passing. They married on January 15, 1960. Stan and Ida were friends, companions, fellow adventurers, public servants in their communities, and each faithful in his or her own way to their religion. Inseparable in their lives during fifty-nine years of marriage, in death, by the grace of god, they are reunited.
As Stan and Ida began their life together, Stan was also beginning a twenty-seven year career as a police officer. As an officer for the Salt Lake City Police Department, Stan worked in a SWAT unit, served as a motorcycle cop, and finished his career in the motor pool. He remained an avid motorcycle rider throughout his life and one of his proudest possessions was his BMW bike that had originally been ordered by the actor Harrison Ford. However, Stan’s blood must have been blue because, after retirement, he spent another ten years with the police department as a civilian employee preparing cases for prosecution.
Stan hunted most of his life. He harvested numerous deer and elk for the dinner table and was a crack shot on upland game including multiple Dakota trips for pheasant hunting. Stan was a fixture in the trap shooting community for decades. His home was littered with championship trophies from local and regional shooting competitions throughout the West during his forty-six years of competition. His induction into the Utah Trap Shooting Hall of Fame was a testament to his dedication to his sporting community and to his skill with a smoothbore long gun.
Stan will always be remembered as a family man. He remained devoted to his daughter Tamara, his three grandsons, their wives and their children. Among their childhood memories were trips to Brown’s Park to explore untamed places similar to those that were so important to Stan in his youth.
Stan’s life was enriched through his many friends, neighbors, members of his ward, and colleagues, including so many who were there to offer unselfish help during his latter years when the insults of age finally slowed him down. Lucky are those who also knew him when he was young and full of grit.
A viewing will be held at the Canyon Rim 2nd Ward (3100 E 3000 South, SLC) on Wednesday, July 17, 6:00pm-8:00pm, and Thursday, July 18 10:00am-10:45am. Funeral services will follow at 11:00am.Service Information
Viewing July 17, 2019 at 6:00-8:00 PM
3100 E 3000 S, Salt Lake City
Viewing July 18, 2019 at 10:00 AM
3100 E 3000 S, Salt Lake City
Funeral Service
July 18, 2019 at 11:00 AM
3100 E 3000 S, Salt Lake City
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