Mary Alexis (Black) Hall died unexpectedly in Salt Lake City, Utah, on December 21, 2018.
Alexis was born May 19, 1979, to parents Laird and Jennifer Black in Denver, CO. The family, with older sister Marisha, moved to Roseburg in 1980. Alexis attended grade school in Roseburg. After her parents divorced, she and Marisha spent time in Roseburg with their father and in Newport and Portland with their mother, Jennifer. Alexis attended high school in Roseburg and graduated from Roseburg High School. After high school, she moved to Utah, where she lived the rest of her life. She attended the University of Utah where she studied photography.
In 2004, she gave birth to her son, Josiah. She entered nursing school at Westminster University and graduated in 2007. She held several nursing positions, the last being at the Cardiac Critical Care Unit at the University of Utah Medical Center.
Alexis loved being a nurse and her patients in the CCCU received the love and care they needed. She loved Utah and skiing and hiking with Josiah and their dogs and her friend, Chris. She loved skiing with Josiah. Their last great hike was 18 months ago in the Moab area.
Alexis is survived by her son, Josiah; her father and stepmother, Laird and Ronnie Black of Roseburg; her sister and brother-in-law, Marisha and Eric Elkins of Corvallis, OR; and her mother Jennifer (Nan) Black of Pueblo, Colorado; her friend, Chris; also, by her dogs, Oscar and Indy. Oscar was her constant companion. She is also survived by aunts, uncles and cousins.
Friends and family are invited to a viewing on Thursday, December 27, 2018 from 5:00-8:00 pm at Larkin Sunset Lawn, 2350 E. 1300 S., Salt Lake City, Utah 84108.
Something out there is calling me:
I hear it in the mewling of the gulls
The tattered signal flags of clouds
The line of foam a wave lays on the beach
Then whispers back across the sand
Into the deep
It fills me with wonder
But it is big and I am small
So Ill go back to the world I know
And wait, and grow, and someday, understand.
- Gram 12-5-83
