Vila Ponsonby (1920-2018)

[Paul Theroff]

Vila R. Ponsonby, peacefully passed away in her home on Friday January 12, 2018 at 9:40 p.m., just 5 days after her 98th birthday, in Redondo Beach, California. Vila was born on January 7, 1920 in Elmo, Utah to Alma Christopher Mortensen and Maggie Burgess. She gave birth to five living children but an infant son LeRoy and a precious daughter Gladys Laursen have preceded her in death.

Vila married in 1936 to Closs Merlin Guymon but he passed away the following year and their daughter, Merlene was born just four months after his passing. Vi married again two years later to John Llewelyn and they had two children, LeRoy and Gladys. The marriage ended in divorce, and in 1946 Vi took her two girls and moved from Utah to Southern California. A few years later she met and married David Ponsonby and they had two sons, Rodger, and Christopher. Vila and David Ponsonby were married for nearly 55 years until cancer took David’s life in 2007.

...Vila is survived by a daughter Merlene Stockman, her sons Rodger and Christopher Ponsonby, ten grandchildren, five step grandchildren, eighteen great- grandchildren, nine step great-grandchildren, nine great-great-grandchildren and nine step great- great-grandchildren. She was a devoted wife and mother, as well as a beloved friend to everyone she met.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday January 20, 2018 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 501 N. Rowell Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California. The viewing will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and the funeral service will start at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel. She will then be laid to rest in the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/torrance-ca/vila-ponsonby-11731308


Vila Roxana Mortensen Llewelyn Ponsonby
Birth
7 Jan 1920
Elmo, Emery County, Utah, USA
Death
12 Jan 2018 (aged 98)
Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, USA

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/284861573/vila-roxana-llewelyn_ponsonby

[Paul Theroff]

In case anyone does not have full information onher husband's death, Netty Leistra posted on Nobiliana in 2007 that an obituary was in the "Daily Breeze" on 13 June 2007. He died 9 June 2007.