Gene passed away on August 7th 2004.  He lived in Taylor, and was a farmer.  A job that he loved.  He married Lee and had 3 boys and I girl. He said that he had 4 children by blood and 104 by love.  His wife said that the farm seemed to draw other children to them.  He gratuated from Weber State with a degree of Master Farmer.  He raised prize winning cows.  He won the U.S. Jaycee's Outstanding Farmer for the State of Utah, and was reconized National.  He also recieved an Award of Valor from the Weber County Sheriff's department for saving the lives of two girls who had overtured their jeep in a ditch full of water.  He felt that his greatest accomplishment was his children, all 108 of them.