Gloria Ann Smith 87 born in Logan, Utah March 18, 1936 passed peacefully into her Heavenly Father's arms on September 5, 2023 in Soda Springs, Idaho.

Gloria Ann Viehweg was born to Carl Owen Viehweg, a Mailman, and Anna Johanna Wilhelmina (Wilma) Venvertloh, a wife and mother, on a cool day in March in Logan, Utah. She is the 3rd child of 5 for them. They moved from Draper, Utah to the farm in Clifton when she was 9 years old, raising sugar beets and hay and cattle.

She said that the greatest gift that she got from the farm was learning how to work hard.She worked in the field with everyone else but at 9 she was actually given the most prestigious chore of being the water girl, and boy did she feel important. She loved working with her family.

Gloria went to elementary and middle school, where she learned to play the Clarinet, in Clifton, Idaho. She went to High School and graduated from West Side High School at Dayton, Idaho in 1954. She then went to Salt Lake City LDS Hospital and completed 1 year of X-ray training but never became certified.

While in Salt Lake City she was looking for a ride back and forth from home and this is where she met Vernal Dale Weeks. They were married and had 6 beautiful loving children, (Jerry, Larry, Danny, Shauna, Donald and Dixie). They were later divorced.
She then met and married Bennie Neil Young in 1983. He passed away in 1987. In 1993 she started dating and married the love of her life, Sherman Burdick Smith in the Logan, Utah Temple. Oh how she loved him and how he loved all of us. Sherm passed away in November of 2008.

Gloria was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was privileged to have many different jobs. She served 12 years in the Cub Scouting, was a Stake Blazer leader and Stake Cub scouting leader, was a District PowWow Chairman, a Sunday School teacher, First Councilor in the Relief Society Presidency and a Faithful Visiting Teacher/minister.

Gloria always loved little children. After high school she was a nanny for a doctor in Salt Lake City. She loved that job. Gloria had several jobs in her life besides being a devoted wife and mother. She worked at Sears Roebuck catalog store, Tupperware, the Trail Cafe, The Senior Citizen's Center, The Caribou County Nursing Home as a CNA (another job that she loved so much), TheBakery at Lew & Dan's (Broulims now), and sold Spudnuts at the Farmer's Market. She loved to serve and volunteered for SEICCA, the Food bank, she made many, many, many quilts and donated them to the SEICCA and humanitarian aid at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She enjoyed Cooking, Baking, Pie Making, Canning, Preserving Foods in all kinds of ways, Camping, Crocheting, Sewing, Quilting, Gardening, Working in her flowers, Walks. But her most precious thing that she loved to do was spend time with her family. She loved her family so very much. She called all of us her most precious jewels. Every gathering we had she would take the kids on a "Bear Hunt". She played bingo games and many other things with all the grandkids, great-grandkids, and all the neighborhood kids that she also considered her family. She had the "bestest" prizes. She loved to serve others in any way she could. She loved going to the Temple, it was her place of peace and joy.

She is survived by her children Jerry (Yvette) Weeks – Grace, Idaho, Larry (Joy) Weeks – Grace, Idaho, Danny (Suzanne) Weeks – Grace, Idaho, Donald Weeks – Soda Springs, Idaho, Dixie (Roy) Dexter – Grace, Idaho. She has 21 grandchildren, and 48 great- grandchildren along with many that she claimed and claimed her.

She was preceded in death by all of her husbands, her parents, brothers and sister, her daughter Shauna Lynn Weeks, Granddaughter Decalyn Kay Weeks, Grandsons Jerry Dee Weeks Jr and Lyle Lynn Hunting, and as well a many friends and family that she loved. She was always an example of Charity and love. She will indeed be missed greatly by many. We wish to express much gratitude to Enhabit home health and Hospice as well as Heritage Senior Living Center for the loving care that they gave her.

We love you Mom, Grandma, and Great-Grandma!!

Funeral Services as follows:
Viewing September 12, 2023, 9:30 am to 11:30 am with services at Noon at the Soda Springs Stake Center (290 3rd West Soda Springs, Idaho) followed by Internment at the Fairview Cemetery in Soda Springs, Idaho.

The funeral will be broadcasted and may be watched by clicking the "watch video" tab below.