Loren Clyde Wilde Obituary (1943 - 2017)

Loren “Larry” Clyde Wilde, age 73, returned home to his Heavenly Father on June 30, following a long illness. Larry was born on October 14, 1943 in Montpelier, Idaho, and was the youngest son of Clyde and CeCelia Wilde. Larry was raised in a loving family in the beautiful mountains of Cokeville, Wyoming, where he learned the value of hard work. Larry spent his summers milking cows with his brothers, tending to the sheep, hunting, and riding for miles around Lake Alice on his favorite horse, Chico. Wonderful memories of wintertime include sleighing down the hills to the highway with his mom and sisters. He served an LDS mission to the Central Atlantic States from 1963 - 1965, where he grew to love the Shenandoah Valley. He attended Ricks College and studied Business Management. After school, he travelled to California, where he met and fell in love with his devoted sweetheart and eternal companion, Caroline. He proposed to her with a rose on the grounds of the Los Angeles Temple. They were married in November 1971 and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple the following year. Together, they created a beautiful home in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they raised their 4 children. With Larry’s keen business mind and hard-working hands, he built a tremendous legacy of family, faith and friendship. Those hands often picked mountain lilies and red roses for his beautiful wife. They built a strong family where his children and grandchildren will forever cherish memories of riding horses together, learning to shoot guns, and receiving blessings from those tender hands. Larry’s hands served others in many capacities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those hands enjoyed traveling the world, fishing in Alaska, picking tulips in Holland, and roaming the glens and meadows of Ireland, where he formed lifelong and devoted friendships. Even during his hardest adversities, he continued to exemplify and emulate love, kindness, and generosity, blessing the lives of those around him, leaving us with cherished memories, that we will hold forever in our hearts. He is survived by his wife, Caroline; children, Scott (Sherry) Wilde, Tanya (Morton) Fletcher, Nichole (Dan) Burbank; daughter in law, Angie Wilde; 16 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandsons. He was proceeded in death by his youngest son, Brandon Clyde Wilde, and his oldest grandson, Daxton Scott Wilde. Funeral Services will be held on Monday, July 10, at 11:00 a.m. at the Taylorsville, Utah Stake Center located at 4845 S. Woodhaven Drive (1365 W.) in Taylorsville, Utah. Family and friends may call Sunday evening, July 9 from 5-7 p.m. at Jenkins-Soffe South Valley, 1007 W. South Jordan Pkwy. (10600 S.) and from 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Monday morning prior to the services at the church. Interment will be held at Wasatch Lawn Memorial South Valley Cemetery, 13001 S 3600 W, Riverton, Utah. Online condolences at www.jenkins-soffe.com. We love you and miss you ‘till we meet again.