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Esther Brown Tait - 10/31/2005

Class of 1936

MT. CARMEL - Esther Brown Tait was born March 13, 1918 in Kanab, Utah to James Arthur and Pearl Edna Pugh Brown. She slipped quietly from this earthly life on October 31, 2005 at the Kane County Skilled Nursing Center at the age of 87. Esther has now joined her beloved husband, parents, grandson Kris Jerry Glover, three brothers James Arthur (Viola) Brown, Norris Pugh (Maude) Brown and a stillborn infant, and six sisters Emily (George) Brinkerhoff, Vola (Melvin) Rider, Zelda (Doin) Boardman, Afton (Milton) Ray, and Elizabeth and Lucille Brown who both died in childhood. Esther was the tenth of the eleven children. Her older sister Alice B. Tait is the only surviving child.

Esther graduated from Kanab High School with the class of 1936. Following graduation she worked at the Parry Lodge as a waitress. She met her sweetheart Lamond V. Tait and they were married in the Kane County Courthouse on March 30, 1937 with many WPA workers peering on. Following the marriage they moved to Mt. Carmel where she resided until her recent placement in the care center. Esther's marriage was solemnized in the St. George Temple on June 11, 1964. Three children were born to the marriage; Deanna Pearl (Jerry) Glover of
Kanab, Arthur L. (Roma) Tait of Cedar City, and Dell Mond (Meriann) Tait of Mt. Carmel. Esther is a grandmother to nine living grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

Esther was an industrious individual learning how to work when she was nine years old by turning on the Kanab City Lights each evening and extinguishing them each morning. She would accomplish the work riding her bike in the summer and on horseback in the winter. Her work continued as a waitress at the Mt. Carmel Jct. Thunderbird Caf‚ and the Clear Creek Caf‚. She was a school lunch cook in Orderville and cooked at the Long Valley Senior Citizen's Center for a number of years. Esther also worked as a clerk at the Crofts Store in Orderville and the Glendale Mercantile in Glendale, Utah. She loved caring for her family, and enjoyed working beside her husband in the garden and on their farm. She took great pride in her home. She loved to feed migratory birds and watch them through her living room window.

Esther was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and gave many hours in the service of the Lord. Of notable interest: she and her husband gave more than twelve years of service in the Kanab Family History Center and in excess of fifteen years doing Spanish Name Extraction at the Extraction Center in Orderville and later in her home.

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