24 Sep 1921 – 4 Dec 2015
Wife of James Grant Pace
Agnes Mae Owens Pace, 94, cherished wife of the late James Grant Pace, passed away Friday, December 4, 2015 at the Latter Day Assisted Living Facility in Santaquin, UT. She leaves behind her six children, Mike (Gina), Steve (Sandi), Jeff (Mary Ellen), Jennifer Crossley (Merlin), Kendall (Shari) and Robert (Shawna), 35 grandchildren and 55 great grandchildren. She also leaves behind a sister, Helen Jean Blake, and a brother, Grant Shumway Owens.
Agnes was born September 24, 1921 in Walsenburg, Colorado to Stephen Lester and Isadore Shumway Owens. She was the second of five children. She spent her growing up years in Arizona and was president of her senior class in high school. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Elementary Education. She met her future husband, Grant, on March 19, 1944 at a dance where he was playing in the band. She said that “it didn’t take long to know that he was the one I wanted to marry”. Three weeks later they were engaged and two months and a day from the day they met they were married in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple.
They lived in San Diego while Grant was stationed in the Navy. After the war, they lived in Silver City, New Mexico where Grant finished a college degree. Then they moved to San Francisco, California where he attended dental school and she taught school. After graduation from dental school they moved to Merced, California and set up his first dental practice. From there they moved to Redwood Valley, then Vacaville and finally to Davis where they lived until retirement. From there they moved to Paradise, California where they lived until Grant’s death in 2002. Agnes then moved to Spanish Fork, Utah to be closer to her daughter. She lived in her own home until 2014 when she had a serious fall that prevented her from living on her own. The last 21 months of her life were spent in assisted living facilities.
Agnes was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She enjoyed playing piano and singing with her husband and doing genealogy and quilting. She was a wonderful wife and mother. She was cheerful, uplifting, encouraging, a hard worker and made each person she met feel good about themselves. She will be greatly missed. We take comfort in knowing that after 14 years on her own, she is once again with her eternal companion.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at the LDS Chapel located at 1167 South 1700 East, Spanish Fork, Utah. Family and friends may visit at the church from 9:30-10:45 a.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, Plot: 83-37-14
