Jack Stephan Bailey

Jack Stephan Bailey passed away on September 25, 2014 in West Jordan, Utah. He was born January 10, 1944 in Ogden, Utah to Walter Shaw Bailey and Margaret Harding Bailey. He spent his school years in Burley, Idaho, and graduated from Burley High School. He was proud of the fact that he was a starter on a small-town high school basketball team that beat much larger rivals to take second place in the state championship in 1962. He attended Ricks College, where he was honored as the “Outstanding Viking Scroll Staff Member” of the college newspaper. He served an LDS mission in the North British Mission. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from BYU in 1969, and was honored as “The Outstanding Student in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management”. He was married to Beverly Parker, and they are the parents of six children. They were later divorced. In 2003 he married Maria da Gracas Varela Dantas. He worked for thirty years for Utah Job Service (now the Department of Workforce Services) and was the manager of the Clearfield Office for several years. Jack was the author of three books: Inside a Mormon Mission; Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled; and Genuine Mormons Don’t Shoot Seagulls. He loved writing, painting with watercolors, photography, and playing basketball and golf when he was younger. He also enjoyed maintaining a well-kept yard, and his blue and white 1969 Chevelle Malibu. He served in various LDS church callings including: Elder’s Quorum President (twice); Assistant Executive Secretary to the Stake President, and Young Men’s President of the South Davis Region Handicapped Mutual. He is survived by his wife, Gracie Bailey, West Jordan, Utah; his father, Walter Bailey, North Ogden, Utah; his brothers Robert (Brenda) serving a mission in Budapest, Hungary; and Kent (Bonnie) North Ogden, Utah; his sister, Ann Brinkerhoff (Roy) Orem, Utah and his six children and their spouses: Stephanie, (Dr. Michael Wilcox) Farmington, Utah; Valerie (Dr. Nathan Hamaker) Kansas City, Missouri); Shawn (Andrea) Logan, Utah; Jeffrey (Ruth), Layton, Utah, Natalie (Mark Cottle) Cincinnati, Ohio; and Devan, Ogden Utah. He is also survived by nineteen grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Friday, October 3, 2014 at the Heritage 6th Ward chapel in West Jordan. Interment was at the Ben Lomond Cemetery in North Ogden.

Jack Stephan Bailey

January 10, 1944 - September 25, 2014