Donna Harbertson (Persinger)

Donna Harbertson Persinger - Leona Sully's obituary.

Ogden - Leona Marie Sully was taken back to live with Heavely Father  on November 27, 1996.

She was born on April 26, 1944 to Lawrence C. Sully and Florence P. (Williams) Sully in the Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah.  She graduated from Ben Lomond High School in 1962.  She then graduated from St. Benedicts X-Ray school in 1964.  Later she got her B. S. in Radiology at Weber StateCollege in 1982.  She was a Radiology Technologist for over 30 years.

She was very active in Church and has held many positions.  The last being the Gospel Doctrine gteacher in Sunday School.  She served a LDS Mission in Australia in 1970 to 1972,

She loved camping, horseback riding, and gardening.  At the time of her death she was Director over Radiology Services at  McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden.  She has earned many awards and recognition both in church and her career.

She is survived by her Mother, one sister Mrs. Myrtle (Rudolph) Gamble of Ogden.  One brother John (JoAnn) Sully of Ogden and two  nieces and one grand-niced who she treated like her own.

She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

Sandra Bramwell (Terry)

I talked to Leona on the phone from her hospital room just the day before she died.  She had no thoughts of dying, was full of life, had cancer, but thought it was defeated.  Leona gave to others every day she lived.  Especially young people in church loved her and would laugh about their experiences with her.  Leona was raised on Harrisville Road, just north of Five Points, with older sister, Myrtle, and younger brother, John.  Her mother was a wonderful homemaker, and her father worked someplace but would come home and take the kids hiking or something.  I remember going to Camel's Cave first with them, and I remember Mr. Sully being the first person to show me arrowheads discovered on the Ogden mouintains in the soil from ancient times.  Leona was a wonderful friend, and four of us in the neighborhood were quite close, including Charlene Price and Ruth Ann Young.  Those were good days, walking home from Mound Fort Jr. High basketball games together, stomping on Lucky Strike cigarette packages before the other, and watching all the neat 1950 cars coming along the roads with their newest competitive styles.  Leona's passing was a shock to her family and all of us.  She was diligent getting her X-Ray Technician Degree and later her Batchelors Degree at college.  She became the manager over approximatly 50 employees in the Saint Benedict Hospital X-Ray Department.  I've often wondered if she developed cancer in her chest from her occupation.  She was a natural leader wherever she went.  But Leona's legacy lives on with her many friends, especially from the north part of Weber County and Farr West Stake, who still remember and love her.