Lynda Daly Bauman
Lynda Daly Bauman
23 May 1951 ~ 11 July 2024
Lynda was born May 23rd, 1951, the fourth of five daughters of Tom “CT” and Amelia (Matheson) Daly. She grew up in Cedar City, Utah surrounded by several generations of family and many close friends. She often said she had so many loving people around her as a child that she didn’t really know who was family and who just felt like they were. As a teenager her family moved to Lander, Wyoming where she graduated from the Fremont County Vocational High School in the class of 1969.
Lynda attended Southern Utah University and Brigham Young University and graduated with a degree in Library Science. She was working as a librarian in Provo when she met John Bauman through a coworker. John was in the Navy when they met and their courtship was mostly through letters and phone calls. They were married in the Provo Temple on July 30th, 1976.
The Navy took John and Lynda to San Diego for a few years, then they returned to Provo where John finished his schooling and their first two daughters were born. The Navy then took them to the Naval Weapons Center in Ridgecrest California. Their first son was born while they lived there. In 1985 John resigned from the Navy and they moved to Santa Clara, California where they lived for twenty years. Two more sons and another daughter were born.
Lynda was an amazing mother. Home cooked meals with two vegetable side dishes were the norm. She attended PTA meetings, sewed costumes, volunteered at schools and sporting events, was a Cub Scout leader, drove endless miles in station wagons and minivans, and somehow was always there to answer when her kids walked into the house and yelled “Mom!”
Lynda was an even better Grandma “Boppi”. She taught herself to pattern and sew stuffed animals and elaborate Halloween costumes, repaired anything her grandkids brought her to fix, and cooked delicious meals of whatever her grandkids wanted. Her grandkids would often say “Grandma is my favorite guy!”
Lynda was a life-long learner with many quiet accomplishments. She had a Real Estate License, studied Irish Gaelic, and was an expert at reading Old World handwriting and calligraphy. She could run a telephone switchboard, took cooking lessons from a famous Chinese chef in the Bay Area, studied for a pilot’s license, took many art and theater classes, and was a bat whisperer. She loved and studied archaeology (secretly wishing she could have been an archaeologist), was an expert at water aerobics, and was a professional driver for a small California car dealership. She took pride in her spelling, grammar, and penmanship. She took her own health and nutrition very seriously and became informed and educated so that she could assist others as well. When her children were in elementary school at John Sutter Elementary in Santa Clara, Lynda was able to use her library skills to volunteer many hours at the school library where the kids affectionately referred to her as “library lady”.
Lynda was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Over the years she served in many callings including Relief Society and Primary President. She served others tirelessly. Her favorite calling was as the ward chorister in the Lawrence Station Ward in Santa Clara. In her later years Lynda volunteered for several service missions including; helping to run a a regional Family History Center at Utah Valley University, working with the records digitization program at the Family Search Remote Operations Center near her home in Pleasant Grove, and serving in the baptistry at the Mount Timpanogos Temple.
Lynda loved music. She played the piano and guitar, sang, and led music. Her first calling as a chorister for her congregation was when she was eleven years old.
Lynda had many challenges in her life. She faced her challenges with faith, determination, humor, and a resolve to serve those around her. She passed away peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family.
Lynda was predeceased by her parents and one sister. She is survived by three sisters, her husband, her children and their spouses, and eleven grandchildren.
Because Lynda had many charities she loved and supported we ask that in lieu of flowers you donate to a charitable cause you feel Lynda would have loved.
Funeral services for Lynda will be held on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 10:00 am in the Mount Mahogany Stake Center Chapel, located at 1548 North 900 West, Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062. Family and friends are invited to attend a gathering Saturday morning from 9:00-9:40 am prior to services at the church. Graveside services will then follow at Pleasant Grove City Cemetery.