Arnold Joseph Peart was born in Murray, Utah on June 29, 1929. He was born to Albert Boulter Peart and Mary Beatrice Orton Peart. He had two older brothers ‚ Byron and Merlin and a younger sister Marilyn Peart Corsetti.
Their family had a home in Draper, Utah and that is where Arnold grew up. Arnold attended Utah State Agricultural College for a year. He was called on an LDS mission to the Central States Mission. After his mission, the Korean War had begun and Arnold decided to join the Navy rather than be drafted into the Army. He was trained in the Navy as a photographer and while stationed in Hawaii his job was to take pictures of the training shots that were taken from one ship to a target on a ship out in the ocean.
It was while he was stationed in Hawaii that he went to church in the Pearl City branch, and it was there that he met the group of men that were to become some of his lifelong friends. There has been a bond between these men that has lasted 65 + years and they mean so much to Arnold.
Arnold has served in many callings in the LDS church beginning in his youth as a Home Teacher, he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ, was a Counselor in the Pearl City Branch, and also served as a Counselor in a Bishopric at the Utah State Prison. He later served as a clerk in several of the wards and stakes where he lived. He taught classes in the various organizations and he could always be counted upon by his leaders to fulfill those callings and to magnify them in all the ways he could. He served as an Ordinance Worker in the Jordan river Temple for 12 years. A service mission for 18 months in West Jordan, Utah Deseret Industries.
After the navy service he went back to Utah State to finish his education. He earned a B.A. in the math and chemistry areas. It was during those years that he came home to Draper and began to date Dorothy Ann Allsop, who later became his wife. Arnold and Ann first moved to Logan and then moved to Murray, Utah and then from there to Draper where they raised their family of five boys and one daughter- Michael, Steven, David, Kathy, Bryan and Jared.
He worked various places: As a teacher in both the Jordan and Granite School Districts. He worked at the U. of U. in the Pediatric Dept. doing medical research work. He worked for the State of Utah Health Department as an Industrial Hygienist. After retiring from the State of Utah he worked for Thiokol Chemical Company as their Radiation Control Officer.
Arnold loved his family and was a great husband and father. He was always willing to help with any projects that his in-laws had going. He saw that his widowed mother was taken care of and that her home was in repair. He tried to instill in his children honesty and integrity in their dealings with others.
Arnold's most obvious love was the love he has for his Heavenly Father and for Jesus Christ. He bore testimony of their divinity and gave thanks to Them for his many blessings. He has been the patriarch of his family and has given us examples to follow as he set high standards for us to reach. He loved us and we are blessed to be his family.
We are happy as a family that he is now free from the terrible Alzheimer's Disease which has held him captive for so many of his later years. We look forward to seeing him again one day on the other side of the veil and to see how his work for the Lord has gone forward.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at Larkin Sunset Gardens Mortuary, 1950 East Dimple Dell Road (10600 South) in Sandy with a viewing held 1 hour prior to services at the mortuary. Interment at Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery.
