Jan. 27, 1932-Aug. 19, 2024
Norene Sylvia Carter Page, age 92, passed away in her home on Aug. 19, 2024, in St. George, Utah. She was born Janu. 27, 1932, in Ogden, Utah, a daughter of Herbert Webb Carter and Violet Ruby Tiffen. In her early years, she lived in Draper, Utah, and later the family moved to Ogden, Utah. She graduated from Ogden High School in 1950. She graduated from Weber State College in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. She did postgraduate work from 1972-78. She acquired a social service worker license from the state of Utah in 1984. Norene taught third grade students for 10 years and worked as a music supervisor for special needs students for three years. She was also employed by the Department of Aging, Weber County for 10 years.
Norene married Jay Golwyn Page on June 23, 1950, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They met at Ogden High School and have sung duets and been in several choirs throughout the West for many years. Norene and Jay also sang with a special double-mixed quartet called “The Ogden Choral-Aires.” Norene sang with the Weber State A Cappella Choir while attending college. She has been involved in music for 80 years. (singing solos, duets, trios, and quartets.) Norene and Jay are the parents of three daughters: Kathleen Tiffeni, Shelley Norene and Valerie Jayne, and one son Lindsay Carter Page. They were heard singing throughout the Ogden area as the “Page Family Singer.s” Norene and Jay have 13 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. They enjoyed many vacations including hundreds of trips to Disneyland and Disney World.
Norene was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has served as a teacher, music director, choir leader, YW President, ward and stake, and gospel doctrine teacher and has written dozens of Christmas and Easter scripts for her ward choir. Norene and Jay served and volunteered in the St. George Temple for 12 years and served two missions together.
Norene was very talented in art, drawing, poster making, tole painting, cross-stitching, playing the ukulele, teaching music conducting, making scrapbooks, photo albums, drama, sewing and completing 13 volumes of her life’s journals. She loved people and working with them. Her nine years of professional teaching and 10 years of social work with the elderly brought her a great deal of enjoyment and satisfaction as well as compassion and growth. She enjoyed her labors at both ends of life’s continuum.
Norene is survived by her three children Kathleen (Mark) Flygare, Shelley Child and Lindsay (Denise) Page. She was predeceased by daughter Valerie Smalley.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 1 p.m. at the Morningside Stake Center, 881 S. River Road, St. George, Utah. The viewing will be from noon-12:45 p.m. at the same location. Internment will be in the family plot at Washington Heights Memorial Park, Ogden, Utah, on Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 3 p.m.
The family would like to thank Dixie Hospice Care for all of their kindness, exceptional care and tender love: Dabrei, Macie, Amy, Rachel, Des, Liz, Brittney and Kylie.
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