Agnes W. Aamodt, 89


Agnes Wortley Aamodt, 89, of Harrisonburg, Va. (formerly of Silver Spring, Md.), passed away on July 10, 2009, at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community.

Agnes, the oldest child of Lawrence and Deborah May King Wortley, was born in Garland, Utah, Oct. 3, 1919.

She graduated from Holy Cross Hospital School of Nursing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then joined the Army Cadet Nurses’ Corps. Agnes received the Linda Richards Award for most outstanding nurse of the year in 1949. She became an obstetrical nurse at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, Jersey City, N.J.

She married Leonard Corbett Aamodt of Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 26, 1951. They lived in Manhattan, N.Y., while Agnes continued to work at Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital. They then moved to Provo, Utah, where both Agnes and Corbett taught at Brigham Young University, Agnes in the nursing department.

In 1956, Agnes and Corbett made their home in Silver Spring, Md. She was a devoted wife and mother and served actively in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly in children and youth programs. She continued to volunteer with the American Red Cross.

She is survived by her five children, Leonard W. Aamodt and his wife, Sylvia, of Harrisonburg, Va., Deborah Hart and her husband, Grant, of Orem, Utah, Suzanne Gathro, and her husband, David, of Jacksonville, Fla., Kristine Simmons and her husband, Gary, of Midland, Texas, and David C. Aamodt and his wife, Kathy, of Kansas City, Mo. Agnes also is survived by 35 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard Corbett Aamodt; her sisters, Elizabeth Fulmer, Ruth Schneiter and Alice May Buxton; and a brother, Lawrence Wortley.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 25, 2009, at 11 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 500 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, Md., with Bishop Timothy Willis officiating. The family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the service. Burial will follow at Norbeck Memorial Park in Olney, Md.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the National Parkinson Foundation at www.parkinson.org.

Online condolences may be sent to the Aamodt family by visiting www.kygers.com.

Arrangements entrusted to Kyger Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc. in Harrisonburg, Va., and to the Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home in Silver Spring, Md.