Susan Elise Evans Hatch

Susan Elise Evans, born 11 June 1942 at Los Angeles, California, the second of two children of Frances Barbara Fields and Jack Mosby Evans, was raised at their San Marino, California Ashbourne Drive family home with summers spent at the family West Ocean Front beach home in Newport Beach, California.



Susan attended Stoneman Elementary School, Huntington Middle School, South Pasadena Junior High School and graduated from San Marino High School in 1960. She received a bachelors degree at Brigham Young University in 1965 majoring in Political Science. There she was a member of the Tokalon Social Unit and served as Vakhnom Culture Unit President. Graduate work at the University of Southern California led to a teaching credential she used throughout her life, first in the Los Angeles Unified School District at Charles Drew and Southgate Junior High Schools and later as a substitute teacher in the Gallup-McKinley County (New Mexico) School District at Gallup High School as her children attended there.



Raised in the Catholic Church, at age 18 she followed the conversion of her parents and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in which she faithfully participated throughout the rest of her life.



Upon the death of her father, she enjoyed the parenting of her stepfather, Harold Pratt Morgan, also of San Marino. Loving travel, Susan studied the German language at Goethe-Institut in Bad Aibling and Berlin in 1962. Life-long travels saw her in Hawaii, throughout Europe, North and South American and Japan.



While living at Marina del Rey, California, she met Richard Argyle Hatch of Springville, Utah in 1971 and they married 27 June 1972 at Manti, Utah. They made their home in Newport Beach while he completed optometry school in 1974 when they moved to Gallup, New Mexico. In 1977, the now young family moved to Provo, Utah, and in 1986 to Chinle, Arizona, then back to Gallup in 1989. Upon her husband's retirement in 2006 they served 17 months as volunteer missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Japan. Her diagnosis of cancer prompted return to their Provo home for treatment where she passed away 24 March 2009. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment and legacy are her dedication and success as a mother of five and her tireless example of cheerful service and unconditional, enduring friendship.



Now deceased are her mother, father and stepfather. Surviving are her brother, Daniel Mosby Evans and his wife, Carol, of South Pasadena, California; her husband and children including Elise Hadley with her husband, David, and children, Aiden Richard and Sylvie Anne of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Maxanne Hatch of San Marino; Richard Evans Hatch and wife, Claire, of Albuquerque; Rachel Elizabeth Hatch of Houston, Texas; and Westin Russell Hatch of Palo Alto, California.



The accompanying picture is of Susan standing by flowers, of which she was particularly fond, in 2008 during her missionary service in Tokyo. Burial was at the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville, Utah, 28 March 2009.