Linda Jean York Reid

Linda Jean York Reid, age 82, of Uintah, Utah passed away peacefully July 26, 2025 at her beautiful home surrounded by loved ones. Linda was born December 29, 1942 in Orem, Utah to Zina M. and John W. York. She spent much of her youth in Provo and Orem. At age 12, Linda was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

When she was 16, her best friend arranged a blind date with a handsome young man named Fred Reid. After a brief courtship, he wasted no time proposing to her and they were married and sealed for time and all eternity in her seventeenth year on June 24, 1960 in the Manti, Utah Temple. Their love was instant and everlasting.

After they were married, they started their lives together by moving to Page, Arizona where Fred was employed working construction on the Glen Canyon Dam. As Linda was a high school senior, she related that Fred had to sign her report cards as her adult guardian which the family found quite amusing. In March of 1963, she gave birth to her first child, a beautiful baby girl who they named Page (after her city of birth).

Once the work on the Dam was complete, they moved their young family to Springville, Utah where Fred entered Brigham Young University to further his education. While living in Springville, in 1965, she gave birth to a son who they named Charles (Chuck). Fred graduated with an accounting degree in 1966 and he accepted employment with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where he was assigned to the San Francisco, California office. They moved to the San Francisco Bay area of California, where in 1968, Linda gave birth to her final child, a boy who they named Ryan. Fred and Linda lived in the Bay area for approximately 6 years when Fred was transferred to the Salt Lake City, Utah IRS office. They moved their family to Pleasant Grove, Utah where they built their first home. In 1974, Fred left Government service and accepted a position with an accounting firm in Ogden Utah. The Reid family moved into the 60th ward of the Burch Creek Stake in South Ogden where they made many lasting friendships.

Linda had a strong and fervent testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She loved the Lord, sharing her testimony passionately, without fear or reservation. Linda served in many church callings where she loved working with and teaching the youth. She served in various positions in her ward, working in the Relief Society, as an advisor in the Young Women’s organization, leader in the Primary, Stake Missionary, Genealogy, and Extraction worker. Her favorite calling was teaching in the Junior Sunday School.

Linda had a special talent and a great passion for working on her family genealogy. She spent many hours at the Salt Lake City Genealogy Library researching family history. She interviewed both her and Fred’s parents to memorialize their family histories. She loved worshiping in the temple. She adored her family and was supportive of all their worthy endeavors. Linda was a talented seamstress, sewing most of her and Page’s clothes, creating many of them without patterns. When Page married, Linda created and sewed her wedding dress and all the mothers’ and bridesmaid’s dresses. She did amazing work with her hands and kept a lovely yard and elegant home. She took the utmost pride in anything she was determined to accomplish.

In 1994, She and Fred sold their home in South Ogden and moved to their current home in Uintah, Utah on the banks of the Weber River. Together they created a beautifully landscaped yard and an elegant home where the spirit of God was always felt, and all were welcomed. Her children and grandchildren loved to visit Grandma and Grandpa where they could always count on being treated with ice cream and a hostess twinkie. Linda had a passion for a good Tony’s Pizza, a 50-year love affair. She had everything she needed in this life; a warm and beautiful home, a passionate loving husband, her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. She was very proud of and humbled by her accomplishments.

Linda had the ability to see the good in everyone. She loved visiting with neighbors and meeting people anywhere she happened to be. She took interest in and was a friend to everyone she met.

Linda is survived by her husband of 65 years, Fred, daughter, Page Harding (Scott), Chuck Reid, (Janet), Ryan Reid, nine grandchildren, Steven Harding, Lindsay Johnson, Elise Lewis, Connor Reid, Heather Godfrey, Sierra Whittemore, Rhett Reid, Randi Reid, Karissa Fifield. Also surviving is her sister, Carole Martinez (Manny), She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers William (Josie) and Jerry (Bonnie Kay, Janet), and her father and mother in law, Charles and Monta Reid.

A memorial service will be held at a time and place to be determined. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Missionary fund, or a charity of your choice.

Linda’s remains will be interred in the Uintah City Cemetery also at a date to be determined.