- Date Of Birth: August 16, 1936
- Date Of Death: August 22, 2021
- State: Utah
LaGrand Hadley, born August 16, 1936 in Plain City, Utah, passed away peacefully in his outside chair, on Sunday morning, August 22, 2021 of natural causes. LaGrand had recently celebrated his 85th birthday. LaGrand was born and raised on a dairy farm. At the age of 15, when his father passed away, he took care of the dairy and ran the family farm. On September 30, 1959 he married his lifelong and eternal companion Eleanor Ann Godfrey. This September they would have celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary. LaGrand and Eleanor have six children.
LaGrand loved sports, hunting, fishing and his family. He was a pitcher for the Farm Bureau Baseball league and a member of the Plain City All Church Slow Pitch softball team that won the championship and took second the following year. His hunting friends called him “Goose” for his love of goose hunting. LaGrand drove a school bus for the Weber School District for over 36 years. LaGrand was an avid fan of the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Indians. LaGrand was a graduate of Weber High School, graduating in 1954. He supported his kids and grandkids in their events and enjoyed watching Fremont High School sports.
Being raised and working on a farm his whole life, LaGrand did not take vacations. He would however attend the Eastern Idaho State Fair for the horse races in Blackfoot Idaho and he would take Eleanor to the horse races in Elko Nevada over Labor Day, each and every year. Many family nights were spent learning how to play cards and other games. LaGrand loved the wintertime, because he and his friends would meet every Saturday afternoon to play pinochle. When he would come home and finish milking the cows, he would go out to the Utah Noodle with Eleanor each and every Saturday night.
LaGrand is survived by his wife Eleanor Ann Hadley, his children Leann and Mark Kilts, Fred and Cheryl Hadley, Jan and Tracy Wilson, Larry and Melissa Hadley, and Joe and Kimberly Hadley. He is also survived by his sister Anna Lee DeFries, along with 16 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. LaGrand was preceded in death by his father and mother Ezra Earl and Elizabeth McLean Hadley, LaGrand and Eleanor’s oldest daughter Pamela Hadley, his brothers Durland and Evelyn Hadley, Clyde Hadley, his sisters Isabel Hadley, Lucille and Leon Carnahan, June and Lloyd King and his brother-in-law Lamar “Peter” DeFries.
