Wilma June Spriggs

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Created on Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:13

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Wilma June Durtschi Spriggs passed away Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Sitka, at the age of 91.

A viewing will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at Prewitt’s Funeral Home.

Wilma was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 30, 1924, to Earnest and Nellie Amanda Durtchi. She graduated from Granite High School in Salt Lake in 1941. She earned her pilot’s license,  and loved flying as a young woman.

Wilma married the love of her life, Max A. Spriggs of Coalville, Utah, at the Salt Lake City LDS temple on Dec. 21, 1945. They lived in Salt Lake for several years before moving to Orem, Utah, and then to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1964 where their four children finished their schooling.

Wilma worked in the Las Vegas school system and retired from J.D. Smith Junior High having served as secretary to the school principal.

After retirement, Wilma and Max moved to Alaska to be closer to their children, who had migrated to Alaska.

Wilma always loved and was interested in music, and directed many choirs and plays. She wrote and directed several road shows and plays and wrote and directed the Easter and Christmas extravaganzas. She was still directing and writing into her 80s.

She was preceded in death by her husband Max; son Randy; daughter Janelle; and son-in-law Warren Vaughn (Maxine).

She is survived by her sister Elsie Durtchi Macbeth of Salt Lake City; daughter Maxine Vaughn of Sitka; daughter Marianne Willard (Calvin) of Ventura, Calif.; 17 grandchildren; and 28 great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at the Hoytsville, Utah, LDS Chapel at 1 p.m. Nov. 16, 2015, with viewing at 11:30 a.m. preceding the funeral. Burial will be at the Hoytsville Cemetery.

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