L. Victoria Whitehouse March 02, 1938 - September 18, 2023 (age 85) Victoria Whitehouse was a sassy, intelligent, stylish, musical, and fiercely audacious woman.
Her family was bewildered by her ability to live to age 85 (given her dipsomania, two breast cancers, and two hematological cancers). Victoria was the youngest of six children raised by an appointed LDS patriarch and homemaker, who together ran a grocery store on the corner of Capitol and Harrison in Ogden, Utah.
Victoria loved music, cooking, games, and technology, along with her three-legged dog Anna. She studied violin, sang in a choral group, played piano at church, enjoyed a broad playlist, and created ringtones for those she loved. Reading cookbooks like novels allowed her to create delicious and artistic recipes to share with her biological and spiritual friends and family. She was a technological genius who liked to quiz Geek Squad technicians as a hobby. (When a young University of Utah technician could not pair a new computer to a printer, he was directed to call Victoria, who provided instructions over the phone.) Playing computer games and card games kept her mind sharp, while walking her beloved dog, Anna, kept her body active, until she lost her dog last year.
After graduating from Ogden High School, Victoria obtained her nursing degree from Weber State College, following in the footsteps of her two older sisters, also nurses. Victoria worked in Labor and Delivery at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden for seventeen years. She personally delivered fifteen babies, due to a doctor’s inability to get there in time or a baby coming too quickly. Victoria worked for over fifty years in different nursing settings, including diabetic education, geriatric psychiatric units, substance abuse, sales, and hospice.
Victoria had three children, five grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Her last breaths were taken surrounded by her three children and her two oldest granddaughters. She adored her spiritual teacher, card-playing friends, and neighbors with whom she had snarky conversations. She was a neon spark in this world.
