Gaylene Gerrard

Gaylene Lucille Milton Gerrard 78 left us on September 21, 2024, from complications following surgery at Logan Regional Hospital. 

Mom was born on December 5th, 1945 in Park View Hospital in Los Angeles California. She was born to Roy Milton and Lucille Lillian Dixson. She and her lifelong sweetheart Victor Leonard Gerrard married on March 31st, 1961 in Tijuana, Mexico at the tender ages of 15 and 17. They later renewed their vows in Las Vegas, Nevada. They decided to follow family and move to Utah in 1969 with their 3 kids and a dog. They wanted to provide a better quality of life for their children. 

In her childhood days, she loved to play baseball, but only if she could be the pitcher, and school only if she could be the teacher. She also always had to be the mother when playing house. Mom was special and saw the good qualities in everyone. She always took pride in her children, home and flower garden. One of the jobs she took was babysitting for others so she could stay home with her children. She helped raise plenty of children which she treated with love. When all the kids were in school she took a job at Comfort Inn Motel in Logan where she worked for many years and made many lifelong friends.

She loved to travel and go on vacations and the beach ones were her favorite. She was on a bowling league and she enjoyed the friendships she made there. Although she didn’t love to go camping, she happily endured it to be with Vic and the kids. She liked to scrapbook and do adult coloring. She always decorated the inside and outside for the holidays. She loved to go for drives and check out her old neighborhood in Wellsville. She enjoyed her trips up to Fort Hall for the day and riding in the car and feeling the sun on her face. Mom liked to have tea parties with the kids and they had a lot of fun. She liked to go to the Brigham City pool and frolic in the water. Oh, and she loved her Jazz Basketball games and her game shows also. She enjoyed her luau rum punch’s on vacations. She looked forward to the little grands and great-grands coming to visit and they loved her toy closet. But mostly she loved their sweet hugs. She loved her sweet tea, mashed potatoes, chips and fajita dip, banana cream pie and her flip flops she wore year round it didn’t matter how much snow was on the ground.

She was what held the family together. She had that nurturing quality, which led to her taking in many people at her home throughout the years from a young newly married age up until the day she passed away. She always cared about you, made you feel special, listened to you and always had a compliment. She was not judgmental and always accepting and sacrificing where needed. You could talk to her about anything and she always listened and had words of encouragement. She always had a great sense of rumor even up until the night before she left us. What a beautiful soul she had. She just wanted to be a mother her whole life and she was the best of the best. We love and miss you mom so much. But we know you are reunited with dad and two of your children, parents, sister, brother, and loved ones. 

Mom was a beloved wife, mother, grandma, nana, sister, aunt, and friend to many. She is survived by four of her six children Victor August Gerrard, Denise (Clinton) Goldsberry, Trisha (John) Lofthouse, and David (Melissa) Gerrard 

Her 17 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren and 1 great great with another due in November. Her sister in laws Michelle, Sue and Chris and many nieces and nephews. 

Mom was preceded in death by her Sweetheart Victor Leonard Gerrard, daughter Tammie Lynn, son Nicholas Caine, sister Virginia Gronberg, brother Kenny Milton, and her parents.

No words can express how much it hurts to have her gone, she loved us and we will always love her. 

A viewing will be on Friday, September 27, 2024, from 10:00 AM -12:00 PM at the White Pine Funeral Home, 753 South 100 East in Logan.  A graveside service will follow at 1:00 PM at the Hyrum Cemetery, 525 East Main St. in Hyrum. Services are under the direction of White Pine Funeral Home in Providence Utah.