IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Larae Rollins

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Gulliford

October 2, 1925 – February 27, 2020

Obituary

LaRae Gulliford passed away February 27, 2020 at age 94 at Southgate Senior Living in St. George, Utah.

Vivian LaRae Rollins was born October 2, 1925 in Minersville, Utah, the eldest of five siblings born to Truman V. Rollins and Hester Carter Rollins; LaRae, Boyd, JoAnne, Clark and Jeanette.

The family moved to Cedar City, Utah in the spring of 1939.

LaRae married Garn Seegmiller shortly after high school graduation in 1943. They later divorced.

LaRae met Owen J. Gulliford who had moved to Cedar City after after WWII where his family had relocated from Colorado. LaRae and Owen married February 2, 1947 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They had two children, daughter Christine (Chris) and son Gary Owen.

LaRae worked for a while at Utah Poultry in Cedar City processing turkeys, also at her uncle Ward Carter's grocery store, and as a cook at the Cedar City North Elementary School. Later she was one of the original employees working for many years at State Bank of Southern Utah.

LaRae and Owen moved to St. George in 1990 where they could be near to daughter Chris and near to LaRae's aging parents.

LaRae loved to landscape (and re-landscape) the yards of the several properties where she lived over the years.

LaRae was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother Clark Truman Rollins and daughter Christine (Alger) Chamberlain.

LaRae is survived by her brother Boyd Carter Rollins and sisters JoAnne Thorley and Jeanette Slack; by granddaughter Danielle Alger Dickinson, great granddaughter Baylee Alger; by granddaughter Toni Alger King, great grandson River King, great granddaughter Tyler King; by son Gary (wife Judy Taylor Gulliford); granddaughter Gina Lee Gulliford Serna, great grandson Gavin Serna, great granddaughter Chloe Serna; granddaughter Sara Lynn Gulliford-Gosnell, great granddaughter Elliot Gosnell, great granddaughter Breannyn Gosnell.

In accordance with her instructions, LaRae was cremated by Metcalf Mortuary in St. George, Utah and there will not be a memorial service.

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