After a life of love and quiet grace, Marsha Loveridge of South Jordan, UT has passed.
These few paragraphs cannot hold a life, but they may carry a memory.
Marsha held deeply to the Latter-day Saints faith — and was, by all accounts, loved by those who knew her best.
Those who live by belief leave a different kind of mark.
Marsha Ann Bishop Loveridge 1951-2026 Passed away May 2, 2026 at her home in South Jordan, Utah due to illness. Born Nov 6, 1951 in Delta, Utah to Anna Kathryn Reynolds and Gordon Taylor Bishop, Marsha was the 8th of 15 children. While growing up she lived a few years in Logandale, NV then moved back to the farm near Delta and then to Main Street in Hinckley, Utah.
After graduation from Delta High she attended Career Academy in Milwaukee to become a dental technician. She found a job with Salt Lake Dental Lab and rented a room with some other young women in the neighborhood of her future husband Dennis Thorup Loveridge.
Attending church for the first time on October 7th 1973, Dennis spotted this cute girl on the back row and after services hurried to meet her in the foyer just outside the Bishop's office. After getting her name and number Dennis went out to the car where his family was waiting impatiently, he told them he had to stop and see the "Bishop".
Their first date was to a Carpenters concert at BYU on October 12th 1973. Two weeks later they were engaged and then married less than 3 months later in the Salt Lake Temple on January 11th 1974. She is the mother of 6 children, 20 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. She loved each one completely and loved little children and loved people for who they are, mostly she loved her Savior Jesus Christ and desired to serve him by serving others.
She was talented in painting, crocheting and all types of crafts, she particularly enjoyed using napkins to create beautifully decorated bottles and plaques and used air dry clay as well to decorate them with. Her favorite calling in the church was serving on the activities committee & decorating for ward socials, at one event she hand cut over 1,000 paper snowflakes to decorate the cultural hall.
She had a green thumb and had beautiful gardens and flowers, she loved to arrange flowers and placed flowers on the pulpit at church each week. She served as a temple ordinance worker at the Jordan River Temple and served a mission with her husband in Palmyra, NY from 2016-2017 as FM missionaries living in the Martin Harris home. She planted and maintained the vegetable garden at the Smith farm house.
Survived by her husband Dennis, children: Dave (Dorothy), Dan (Johanna), Rob (Sabrina), Tim (Joey), Anjuli (Ryan Chamberlain), Richard (Cortni) plus her grandchildren and their spouses and great grandchildren, siblings: Eccles (Devone), Dale (Susan), Mary Ellis Montiereth, Paul (Gloria), Melanie (Sidney Vestal), Colleen (Dennis Polanshek), Linda (Brad Green) & Cindy.
Preceded in death by her siblings (and living spouses): Darnall, Don (Rosemary), John, Barbara & Kent Gaufin, Gary Montiereth, Max (Patty), Alma (Wanda)
Thanks to the wonderful doctors and nurses at Huntsman Cancer Center and hospice workers from CNS who so tenderly cared for her.
Viewing will be held Monday May 11, 2026 6-8 pm at Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary 1007 W. South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan.
Funeral services Tuesday May 12th at 11:00 am at the LDS chapel next to the Jordan River Temple with viewing from 9:30-10:30 am.
Interment at South Jordan City cemetery.
For those unable to attend, the Funeral Service will be streamed live and remain available for viewing at: https://jenkins-soffe.com/obituaries/marsha-loveridge
