Willard Grant Clegg (Grant) was born April 4th, 1929 in the bedroom of the family home in Bench (Grace), Idaho, the first child of Donald Willard and Lucile Winder Croxall Clegg. His first years of education were in the Bench one-room school where he engaged in all sorts of Huck Finn adventures before attending Grace Grade and High School. He became captivated with flight at four years old when he first saw a plane in the sky and asked his mother to buy him one. Before attending Weber College he earned his pilot's license at 17--being one of the youngest pilots in the state of Idaho at the time. This began a lifelong love of airplanes and flying with a history of close calls and miraculous outcomes. He served an LDS mission to the Western States with assignments in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and South Dakota driving many miles on the Indian reservation. Upon return he was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War, where he was a sergeant in the signal core, traveling the front lines and responsible for radio maintenance. Significant events he supported included the troop visit of Catholic Cardinal Francis Spellman and the gratitude speech to the military by first president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, at the conclusion of the war. On discharge at the end of the conflict he was reintroduced to Zan Christensen of Bench and they courted he flying his plane to West Yellowstone where she was working for the summer. They were married in the Logan LDS Temple on November 12th, 1954. After studying automotive electronics in Ogden, they returned to Grace and began rearing a family. In 1958, with two children, they traveled to New Zealand for a year to serve as work missionaries on the LDS Temple. Returning to Caribou County, he began a career of mechanic, millwright, and maintenance work at phosphate plants and mines in the surrounding area. He worked at Central Farmers in Georgetown Canyon, helped build the El Paso plant (now Agrium), and spent 25 years working for the JR Simplot mine in Conda. During this time he also worked on the family farm with his father and brother David. On retiring from Simplot in 1991 he worked managing the church farm in Grace for nine years. Grant was a lifelong and dedicated member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was stalwart and committed and taught his family by example with a love for music, the outdoors, and a devotion to God. His service included Scouting, missionary work, teaching, and temple work. He and Zan served a second LDS mission together in North Carolina in 1998. Grant and his wife Zan raised ten children. Peter of Grace; Paula Webb (husband Gordon) of Raft River, Idaho; Steven & Shannon Clegg of Fruit Heights, Utah; Dan & Jill Clegg of Fruit Heights, Utah; Kent & Mignon Clegg of Grace; Amy Littlefield (husband Shane) of Orem, Utah; Ben & Janet Clegg of Hyde Park, Utah; Virginia Hunter (husband Michael) of Provo, Utah; Don & Greshen Clegg of Soda Springs and Frank & Melissa Clegg of Fruit Heights, Utah. They currently have 50 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. To his family, friends, and neighbors Grant will be remembered for these things: • Hard work - a clip board of tasks to be accomplished and always busy • Innovation - a motorcycle front end, boat trailer backend, and a Briggs & Stratton motor mounted in the middle for a kids go-cart; the universal fix-all kit of a plier belt and baling wire • Outdoors - hiking, camping, boating, and fishing up until six small sons with tangled lines in a row boat exhausted his patience • Adventure - airplanes, snowmobiles, and motorcycles, often to destinations just short of peril • Music - singing in the ward choir; multiple harmonicas and guitars tuned to Hawaiian style to play with his missing fingers • Devotion to following the Spirit and the unquestionable necessity of prayer • An ever increasing appreciation and love for his dear wife of 60 years Grant passed away peacefully on the evening of July 3rd at his home on the family farm, not 50 yards from the place where he was born. Funeral services will be held on Friday, July 10th, 2015 at the Williams Ward LDS Church in Niter, Idaho at noon with a viewing from 10-11:30 a.m. Interment will be at the Grace Cemetery. Listen to service