Mary Alice Hansen

Mary was my 2nd Cousin through her Mother, Lizzie Broadhead Pace. Mary passed away peacefully at her home at 1972 East Garfield Avenue in Sugar House, Salt Lake County, Utah of Causes Incident To Age at the age of 103 years old. She was born in Nephi to Alexander Elijah Pace and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Broadhead. She was the fourth to arrive in a family of nine, three boys and six girls. She married her sweeetheart, Arthur Duke Hansen on September 15, 1924 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Arthur preceded her in death on December 29, 1967. She attended school in Nephi until 1917 when the family moved to Price, Utah to be closer to her father's sheep business. Following graduation from Carbon High, she went to work for Western Union. In two years she saved enough to attend Beauty College in Salt Lake City. After graduation she worked in Helper and Price until her marriage in 1924. She was involved in the beauty business for years in both Utah and Arizona becoming president of the Cosmetology Association of Utah in 1951.

Mary Alice and Arthur moved to Phoenix, Arizona in May of 1952, to go into the retail business with his sister and brother-in-law. While there, they made wonderful eternal friends. In 1980 she moved back to Salt Lake City into her mothers home on Garfield Avenue. Mary Alice was a very active member of the LDS Church and held many positions. She served a mission with her husband in the Phoenix area ubtil his death in 1967. She was called as a hostess for the main lobby in the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City in 1986 and served there until January of 2006 at age 102. Mary Alice had a great love for genealogy and her family ties. She traveled to England as a representative of the Pace Family, to do research on her grandfather's line. Her great grandfather, William Broadhead was the first person in the British Isles to be baptized a member of the LDS Church. She made other trips to many lands. She made a special trip to the Holy Land gave the oportunity to walk where Jesus walked. She was a very positive person, always looked for the positive in any situation. Her home was always open to family and friends. She gad a strong desire to serve the lord.

Funeral Services were held on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:00 AM at the Larkin Mortuary located at 260 East South Temple Street in Salt Lake City. A Viewing was held for Family and Friends on Friday Night from 6 to 8 PM and on Saturday from 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM Prior to Services. Graveside Services followed at the Vine Bluff Cemetery in Nephi, Utah where she was buried in the Pace/Broadhead Family Plot. REST IN PEACE.

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