- Date Of Birth: September 11, 1933
- Date Of Death: November 6, 2016
- State: Utah
Rena May Graham Stallings
Our favorite sister, neighbor, friend, and teacher passed away peacefully at Quail Meadow Assisted Living on Sunday, November 6, 2016.
Rena was born September 11, 1933 at the old Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah. She was the second daughter of Orville R. and Olga Smith Graham. She attended school at Valley Elementary and Junior High and graduated from Weber High School in 1951. Her graduating class was the first to attend Weber High for all three years. She then went on to graduate from Weber State, attended BYU, finishing at Utah State with a degree in secondary education with a specialty in home economics.
Rena married Gene Mack Stallings on March 24, 1956 in Eden, Utah. Her father, Orville performed the ceremony.
Rena taught school at Roy Elementary, Bell Junior High, South Junior High, Valley Junior High and then 17 years at Roy High School. She was a member of the LDS Church, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Eden Camp, and the American Legion Auxiliary Post 129. She excelled in dressmaking and loved to quilt. Every baby born in the family was given a quilt handmade by Rena. She was a very giving aunt and always gave gifts of books to all of her nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Rena was preceded in death by her parents, Orville and Olga; sisters Annette Harris and Norene Doxey; nephews Scott Graham and Kris Graham, and her husband, Gene Mack Stallings.
She is survived by one sister, Nelda Price (Lee) of North Ogden; two brothers, Wayne Graham (Lillian) of Livermore, California and Lee Graham (Mary Ellen) of St. George, Utah.
