Obituary- Verona Morrison Creer

The Salt Lake City Tribune - Verona M. Creer
Verona M. Creer, 99, died peacefully January 7, 2002 at her home of 64 years in Salt Lake City. She was born April 12, 1902 in Richfield, Utah the tenth child of James Bruce Morrison and Caroline Amanda Foutz Morrison. After graduating from Richfield high School and attending the University of Utah, she taught school for one year in Burville, Utah. in 1922, she moved to California where she began a career as a milliner. By 1931 she owned and operated millinery concessions in Los Angeles, Alhambra and San Marino. In 1930 she met historian Leland Hargrave Creer while vacationing at fish Lake, UT. They married in 1931 ad she moved to Seattle where he was on the facility of the University of Washington. they moved to Ogden, UT in 1935 when her husband became president of Weber College, and then to Salt Lake City in 1937 when he joined the faculty of the University of Utah. He died in 1968. Verona was a member of the LDS church and very proud of her pioneer heritage. Active in university affairs, she served as president of the University of Utah faculty Woman's club and attended courses well into her 80's. An artistic person, she had a flair for clothes, was an excellent seamstress, and enjoyed countless hours outdoors painting landscapes. She loved to travel and made trips to Europe, the middle east, the Soviet Union, Asia and North Africa. nothing was more important to her than family. She was a loving and devoted mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.