4 Nov 1941 – 7 Jul 1986
2nd-Great-Granddaughter of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Great-Granddaughter of Thomas Barthelemy Cardon and Lucy Smith
Granddaughter of Philip Vincent Cardon and Leah Ivins
Daughter of Lucy Elizabeth Cardon and Calvin Lewellyn Rampton
SILVER SPRING, Maryland-Margaret (Meg) Rampton Munk, 44, a Salt Lake City native, scholar and author, died of cancer on July 7, 1986, at the family home in this suburb of the nation’s capital.
Born November 4, 1941, to former Utah Governor, Calvin L. Rampton and Mrs. Lucybeth Cardon Rampton. Mrs. Munk graduated from Highland High School in 1959, and the University of Utah in 1963, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Mortarboard and Beehive, and was class valedictorian. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in government from Harvard University, which she attended on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She taught political science in three countries; at the Sophia University in Tokyo, the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and American University in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Munk was a musician and widely published essayist, poet and short story writer. A book of her poems, “So Far”, was published earlier this year. she married Russell L. Munk of Montpelier Idaho, December 29, 1965, in The Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mr. Munk is Bishop of the Kensington, Maryland Ward and an assistant general counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department. Mrs. Munk served in many L.D.S. Church leadership roles, including President of both the Primary and Relief Society in the Kensington Ward.
Survivors include: her husband; one daughter, Laura, 16; two sons, Daniel, 13, and Andrew, 7; her parents; two brothers, Anthony, and Vincent; and one sister Janet Warburton, all of Salt Lake City.
Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, July 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the Kensington Ward Chapel, Washington D.C. Memorial services will also be held on Friday, July 11, at Noon in the Parley’s First Ward Chapel, 2350 So. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery. Friends may call at the Parley’s Ward Chapel one hour prior to services. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society, Funeral Directors, Eastman’s Evans & Early.
-Published in The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, July 8, 1986, Page 2C (20)
-Published in The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, July 9, 1986, Page B7 (15)
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Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, Plot: West 7 72 3E
