Viona (Remund) Stabenow
Marriages
Sydney Myron Pace, Robert Marion Stabenow
Obituaries
Daily Sentinel page 5C - August 15, 2021
The Daily Sentinel page 5C - August 15, 2021
Viona Remund (Pace)
Stabenow passed away
August 7, at the Larchwood
Inns in Grand Junction,
Colorado.
Born April 29, 1927, to Joseph Hyrum and Frances
Chandler Remund in Snyderville, Utah (Park City),
the youngest of three children, she cross-county skied
to school (uphill both ways) in her early years. Later
the family moved to the Salt Lake Valley, Murray/
Cottonwood area. Growing up, she preferred helping
her dad in all aspects of dairy farming above all else.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1949 from
Utah State University. While attending, USU she met
and married her first husband, Sidney Myron Pace.
There were two children from this marriage, Joe and
Jacque. They lived in Phoenix while Sidney received
his Master’s Degree and then to Chicago for six months
while waiting to receive his Air Force commission. They
moved to Roswell, New Mexico for his active duty. In
1954 they made the decision to move back to the Pace
family ranch in Utah/Colorado where Joe and Jacque
were raised. Vi was the chief cook, bottle washer, and
fill in ranch hand (loved every minute of it) until they
were divorced in 1974.
She went to work at Mesa County Social Services
afterwards and stayed there until she retired at 79 after
32 years.
In 1980 Vi married Robert Marion Stabenow in
Grand Junction, Colorado, and moved to his residence
where she was able to stay until late January of this
year. They put many miles on their pickup and camper
while travelling the US.
Vi was a lifetime member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints and held many callings
as well as organist/pianist for meetings and countless
funerals for over 86 years. She started playing piano in
Primary meetings at eight and then Sacrament/Sunday
School meetings at 12 years old. There is hardly a hymn
in the hymnals that she couldn’t play from memory. She
was 93 when she played in her last service.
Vi always had beautiful yards and gardens with plenty
of flowers, rocks, and ornaments, whether on the ranch
or in town. Her favorite “rock” was petrified wood.
Vi attended all things involving her kids and
grandkids; school functions, sports, dance, rodeo, plays,
concerts, everything she could physically attend.
An avid seamstress, she made school clothes, prom
dresses, costumes (Halloween and dance), knitted,
crocheted, and embroidered.
Vi and Bob’s sports passion was baseball, baseball,
baseball! If a game was on, it was next to impossible to
carry on a conversation with her.
Vi enjoyed cooking wonderful homemade cakes,
cookies, breads, cinnamon rolls, candies, jams, jellies,
and Grandma sauce.
She was preceded in death by her parents; Sidney
Pace; husband, Bob Stabenow; brother, Junius Remund,
and sister ,Beaulah Remund Doutre.
Survivors, in addition to son, Joe (JoDee) Pace,
and daughter, Jacque (Pace) Bevan, (Gary Clifton),
include seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren,
and many others assimilated into the family who have
been like sons and daughters, especially Rudy Bevan
(Pam Hawkins), Diane Fugate, Kasey Rowland and
kids Seth, Zander, and Cane Rowland, as well as many
nieces and nephews and a plethora of other close friends
and extended family members too numerous to list.
However, she will never forgive us if we didn’t list her
posterity of whom she was so proud: grandkids, Will
(Emily) Pace; Deena Pace Kaneakua; Levi (Amber)
Bevan; Tess (Travis) Metzker; Troy Stabenow (Andrew
Yale); Janis (Trevor) Horman, and Heather Hawkins
(Austin Brown); great-grandkids, Keilani, Keola, and
Kainoa Kaneakua; Liam and Luca (arriving any day)
Pace; Aidan and Ethan Bevan; Jacqueline , Oryan,
and Zane Kuchyt; Keira Metzker; and Colin and Alex
Horman, and many kids and adults in addition to her
immediate family. The number of people referring to
her as Grandma Vi are far too many to list.
Funeral service Monday, August 16, 2021, 11:00 a.m.,
in the Grand Junction West Stake Center Chapel at
2542 G Road, Grand Junction, CO. Viewing and family
reception in Relief Society Room starting at 10:00 a.m.
Dedication of the grave and burial will be in the New
Elmwood Cemetery in Fruita, CO, immediately after
the service.
The family offers sincere thanks to all those who
helped with the care of Vi over the past few months,
specifically her doctors, nurses, Larchwood and PARC
staff, and many friends and associates.
If desired, in lieu of flowers, you may donate to a
charity of your choice in her name.
