Lynell Vander Meide Obituary (2026)

Lynell, our beautiful Mother, wife, sister and Great Grandmother was welcomed to her eternal home and family after passing away from complications due to an accidental fall and failed surgeries to repair her broken femur to hip. Lynell was the first born of four children on May 12, 1941 at Cottonwood hospital in Murray, Utah to Matthew Devine Madsen and Delsa Maud Nielson Madsen. Lynell was raised mainly in the Salt Lake City and Murray, Utah area. At the age of 8, May 4, 1950 she was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Lynell graduated from Murray High School, and worked different jobs in the area. She worked with her father painting houses and at Harmon's Kentucky Fried Chicken and Salt Lake Hardware store. She met the love of her life at church, Peter Cornelis Vander Meide, they were married and sealed for all time and eternity in the Salt Lake City LDS temple on June 9, 1960. Their first child Thomas was born March 13, 1961, then Kenneth was born in July 1963 when they lived in Salt Lake City. After a move to Murray, two more children were added to their family, Lisa and Deborah. As a wonderful leader Lynell served in several different auxiliaries of the church. She enjoyed being a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts and was a very talented Home making leader in several different wards as they moved around. She lived in Salt Lake City, Murray, Bountiful, Fillmore, Utah then moved to Boise, Idaho and then went to Oregon living in McMinnville, Tigard and Beaverton. But it didn't take long for them to move back to Utah living in West Valley City, South Salt Lake and Cove Fort, Utah. Then finally Pete and Lynell moved to Idaho to live with their daughter Lisa and her husband Brett Furniss. Her artistic talents flowed when she helped her Mother run a ceramic store in their basement in Murray living next to her on Germania Ave. She was a very successful Tri-Chem sales lady, stepping up the ladder to a Regional leader when she lived in Murray and Bountiful. She is survived by her husband Peter C. Vander Meide and her children Kenneth, Lisa (Brett) Furniss of Blackfoot, Idaho and Deborah (Dale) Huntsman of Richfield, Ut; siblings Marcha Wilde of Nampa, Id, Kendra (JH) Merritt of Thayne, Wy, Shauna (John) Groberg of Magna, Ut, 10 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, a son, Thomas, and his wife Lola, brother-in-law Howard Wilde, and a grandson Dustin Furniss. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday, June 22, 2026 at Neil O'Donnell Funeral Home, 372 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, Ut. Family and friends will gather from 6-8 p.m. Sunday June 21, 2026 at the funeral home and for one hour prior to the service. Burial will be at the Memorial Redwood Cemetery in West Jordan, Ut.