Betty Gorbutt Low

July 8, 1926 – March 28, 2016

Betty Colleen Gorbutt Low died March 28, 2016, in Layton, Utah. She was born to Mearl C. Gorbutt and Martha Ann McArthur in Lovell on July 8, 1926. She spent her early years in Lovell, graduating from Lovell High School, and she often spoke of her many fond memories of Lovell as well as family and friends.[caption id="attachment_11078" align="alignright" width="174"] Betty Gorbutt Low[/caption]She served an LDS mission in the Eastern States Mission in 1947–1948 and then on June 13, 1952, she married James Call Low in the Mesa Arizona Temple. They made their first home in California while James completed his internship and residency to become a doctor in family medicine.Betty enjoyed serving in many callings in the LDS Church, many of which called for the use of music, one of Betty’s passions. She was a choir director and music chairman in many of the wards and stakes that they lived in through the years and developed and taught conducting classes. She had the privilege of conducting the choir for the Logan Temple rededication and the Bountiful Temple dedication. She also served as a choir director for a small secular choir in Preston, Idaho, that received requests to perform all throughout the area. In addition to her talents as a choir director, Betty also enjoyed singing and played the piano, organ, guitar and saxophone.Another of Betty’s passions involved anything to do with the LDS Church and more specifically, family history. She served as an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple for many years, spending the last three of those years as a supervisor. Following her husband’s retirement, they were called to serve as family history missionaries in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.She is survived by her four children, Cydney Cox, Jeffrey Low, Scott (Leah) Low and Stacey (Aaron) Workman; 10 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; sister Merry (Ted) Asay and sister-in-law Dionne Gorbutt.She was preceded in death by her husband, Jim, her parents, brothers Richard, Bruce and Newton and son-in-law L. Lamoine Cox.There will be a viewing at Larkin Mortuary at 260 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, on Saturday, April 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held in Lovell on Monday, April 4, at 10 a.m. at Haskell Funeral Home, followed by burial in the Lovell Cemetery.