Patricia Ann Allred

RIVERTON - Patricia Ann Bundy (Miller) Allred has completed her earthly journey and has joined her loved ones in heaven. She passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of September 22, 2024, after prolonged health issues. Patricia, better known as Trish or Trisha, was the eldest child born to Vanord Orin Bundy and Gloria Lucy Kimball on July 13, 1950, in Hurricane, Utah. She would become the eldest child of a large, extended family of full-, half- and step-siblings. Trisha was born with a neurological disorder called Neurofibromatosis. While in her teens, Trisha was finally and accurately diagnosed with N.F. Her mother refused to treat Trisha as anything but a ‘normal’ person, nor did her brothers and sisters. Our mom never catered to her ‘difference’ and therefore, Trisha never saw herself as anything but the same as others, although her simpleness was evident, as the years passed. Trisha most certainly possessed an independent, willful and stubborn spirit. Trisha attended public grade schools and graduated from Junior High School in Vernal, Utah. She went on to attend the New Life Training Center near Vernal, for handicapped/challenged individuals where she was proud to say she was more of a teacher than a student. In her early twenties, she was granted a driver’s license and eventually owned more than one vehicle of her own, during her life. Trisha’s greatest desire in life was to have babies. To say she ‘loved’ babies was an understatement. When her youngest brother, Michael, was born, her mother was very ill so, Trisha assumed complete ‘mother duty’ with him during the first year of his life. Trisha married Dale Otho Allred June 19, 1972. Although, they both longed for children of their own, they were never blessed with any. But not to worry, Trisha had many nieces and nephews, on both sides of the family and was allowed her to ‘mother’ all of them on a regular basis. For nearly the first twenty years of her marriage, Trisha operated a small daycare service in her home. Then, in later years, she worked at Multi-technology Inc and Sorenson Bio-Science. But her love was, and always has been, caring for small children. After she retired, she returned to work part time in a daycare facility, located in West Valley City, where she worked until her health declined a few years ago. She was elated to be called ‘Grandma Trish’ by many of the children she cared for there. We have truly been blessed to have you, Trisha, in our lives as a big sister, a surrogate mother, an aunt, a great aunt and as a friend. Thank you for all you’ve shown us, taught us, and joined in doing with us. You will be missed and, yet, we will forever have the fondest memories of your long sojourn here with us, upon this earth. They will be bittersweet memories at first but they will become joyous to our hearts, in the years to come. Trisha is preceded in death by her husband, Dale Otho Allred, her parents, Vanord and Gloria, her step-father, Max Miller, her brother, Jim, her step-siblings, Stan and Danna. She is survived by her siblings, Kenneth, Neileen, David, Cindy and Mike, and step siblings, Bill and Dennis. As Trisha’s family, we wish to express our gratitude to Steven and Cathy Allred. We cannot thank them enough for the countless hours and tremendous effort they provided in taking care of Trisha, since her husband, Dale’s, passing. Especially, and most undoubtedly, during the last eighteen months or so. Thank you so very much! Serenity Funeral Home in Bluffdale, will be providing the mortuary services. Graveside Service for Patricia Ann Allred will be held on September 27, 2024 at Taylorsville City Cemetery at 1:00 pm. (4567 S. Redwood Rd). Interment at Taylorsville City Cemetery. Sweet Ramona’s Flowers is a Miller family owned and operated business. If you’d like to support them, flower arrangements can be ordered at: srflwrs88@gmail.com or Tina Miller – 801-824-9740.

Patricia Ann Allred

July 13, 1950 - September 22, 2024