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Melvin Joseph Stanford

Jan 25, 2022

Melvin Joseph Stanford (89) died 22 January 2022 at Payson, Utah. Born 13 June 1932 at Logan, Utah to Joseph Sedley Stanford and Ida Pearl (Ivie) Stanford. Class of 1950, Logan High School. Married Frances Yvonne Watson, Twin Falls, ID, 1951; divorced, 1956. Married Linda Barney 1960 in the Salt Lake Temple. Graduated from Utah State University, 1957, Harvard Business School 1963, University of Illinois, Ph.D., 1968. Professor at Brigham Young University, Dean of the College of Business at Minnesota State University-Mankato. He enriched his classes with current research and encouraged his students to work to their highest level of ability.

Mel served in many church leadership capacities in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including as Bishop of the Mankato, Minnesota Ward. He and Linda served together two full-time missions and as ordinance workers in four Temples.

During the Korean War, Mel served in the U.S. Air Force. Later he was commissioned in the U. S. Army reserve. In the year of his military retirement Mel was selected for promotion to Colonel.

Mel is survived by his wife, Linda, and children Joseph (Kathleen Barnett), Ted, Emily (David Schultz), Charlotte (Benjamin Pratt-Ferguson), Charles (Jennifer Hillman) and Sarah (Jared Eastley), two sisters: Marie (Wayne) Williams, and Diane Jastremsky, 32 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great grandchildren. Preceded in death by parents, brothers Theodore, Stephen and Glen Stanford, sisters Vesta Stanford, Katherine Staples and Elaine Brockbank, and by daughters Elisabeth Stanford, Connie Tendick and Cheryl White.

Funeral services will be held at the LDS chapel at 1555 North 1350 West, Provo, Utah on Thursday, January 27 at 10 a.m., and streamed online by the Sundberg-Olpin Funeral Home. Visitations from 9:00 to 9:45 AM at the chapel prior to the funeral, and from 6 PM to 8 PM Wednesday January 26, at Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 495 South State Street, Orem, Utah. Burial with military honors in Logan, Utah City Cemetery Thursday January 27 at 2:30 p.m. Condolences may be expressed to the family at SundbergOlpinMortuary.com.