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Show 294 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER became the first president of the Denver [Littleton] LDS Temple.) Kimball praised Madelyn's unselfish devotion to Harold and their children; her leadership positions in the American Association of University Women, Parent-Teacher Association, English-Speaking Union, Friends of the Denver Public Library, Adult Education Council, Planned Parenthood, Institute of International Education, Goodwill Industries, Central City Opera House Association, Denver Symphony, Red Rocks Festival, and other community organizations; and her work for the LDS Church. He described her as "a sparkling woman." She and Harold had been married thirty-two years. In August 1961, upon what would prove to be her last climb up East Mountain, sensing perhaps an early passing, Madelyn had said she wanted to be buried on East Mountain, and went far as to inquire of the Forest Service if this might be possi ble. She was disappointed in their answer, and so she was buried so in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. She would have been pleased with the weather, which was dry until her burial and then a vio lent rainstorm. Harold erected a monument to her in the ceme tery that bore the inscription "Beloved Teacher." Madelyn's equally between Harold and bequests to her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, brothers and sis estate was divided ters, the Silver Foundation, and various charities. At her death Harold was sixty. Elizabeth was thirty-one and had a son and two daughters. Barnard was twenty-eight and was still unmarried. Judith was twenty-six and had a son and a daughter. Brian, nineteen, was unmarried. After Madelyn's death, Elizabeth earned a master's degree from Denver University in special education and taught in that field until 1992. In 1963 Barnard married Cherry Bushman of Salt Lake City, a graduate of the University of Utah who completed graduate degrees at Boston University and Harvard-Radcliffe. Cherry and Barnard have a son and a daughter. Cherry has been a member of the board of the LDS Relief Society; Barnard has been a general member of the general board of the Sunday School and they both served on the general church committee for members with disabilities. Judith and her husband have eight children. Brian earned a degree in English from Harvard in 1964, was granted |
