Lyle Glen Evertsen

A beautiful soul, Lyle Glen Evertsen, completed his 88 year earthly journey and is on to his next chapter of adventure, helping others, meeting and accepting new, interesting people, laughing, and reuniting with deceased family members and dear friends. Lyle truly is one of the “special ones” and leaves a legacy of sheer goodness in his wake.

Lyle was born on September 20, 1935 and grew up in Northern Utah but loved working with his grandpa on his ranch in Rockland, Idaho. If you ever spent any time with Lyle, you knew you were accepted, loved, respected and you wanted to be your best, kindest self and authentically serve others like he did. It was truly just second nature to Lyle, and he never thought twice about it.

Like many young adults growing up in the 1950’s, Lyle got married right out of high school and had three children with his first wife, Chyrrel. They later divorced and then Lyle met his true eternal love of his life, “Sandy Flash”….a.k.a. “Sanner.” They married in 1973. Like the Brady Bunch, they blended families and then added four more little monkeys to the bunch. Lyle and Sandy are a 50-plus-year force of pure kindness, hard work, positive influence on others and just plain FUN! Lyle and Sandy are role models of how to infuse a big crazy family of “his, mine and ours” with love, service, humility and humor. And REALLY good food.

Lyle was a hard worker and always wanted to work independently because he had so much ambition and curiosity and wanted to pay himself. In addition to owning a service station (where he met Sandy by working on her car!), a long and meaningful chapter in Lyle’s life were the years of the iconic Sandy’s Fine Foods. Lyle and Sandy took a risk and opened the restaurant in 1976. So much more than delicious food and homemade pies came out of that 40-year era. If you were lucky enough to work at “Sandy’s,” you know it was the most fun working environment with a dose of humor and hard work and that you were part of our family.

The most important thing to Lyle was his gratitude for all the blessings poured out on him and he truly loved the Lord. He served in many callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but his favorite and most challenging one was being the bishop of his church for 7 years. Lyle and Sandy also loved serving missions together in Anchorage, Alaska, and Orlando, Florida.

He especially loved working with the youth and taking them on all kinds of adventures like rafting, camping, skiing, snowmobiling, 4 wheeling, hiking, swimming, and more. Lyle and Sandy’s home has always been welcome to all, and they loved people just dropping in to visit or go swimming or have him help them fix something. Lyle could fix anything and loved doing so.

Lyle’s loving legacy will live on through so many. He glowed with the pure light of Christ and showed kindness to all. He exemplified what a “well lived life” truly is through is his generosity, work ethic, love for others and his community and his love of nature. We will miss you sweet Lyle, but we know you are getting to work on the next fun chapter.

Preceding Lyle in his journey are his parents, Jack and Lila Evertsen, his two brothers, Gary and Doug Evertsen and his son, Mike Olsen Jr. His spirit lives on with his wife Sandy; son’s Brook Evertsen, Brett Evertsen, Todd (Kara) Evertsen) and his daughters Lisa (Brad) Kimes, Kym (Peter) Buttschardt, Tiffany (Ron) Nash, Suzy Evertsen, Kristen (Rich) Magoni, 25 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are his sisters: Sue Lundquist, Pam (Craig) Hanni, Mazie (John) Nalder and Pat Evertsen.

Our family expresses sincere gratitude to the caring staff of Bristol Hospice, especially Shasta and Morgan.

Friends are invited to join us in celebrating Lyle’s life on Friday, June 21st, from 6-8 pm or Saturday, June 22nd, 2024, from 10:30-11:30 am at LDS meetinghouse 5855 Skyline Drive, Ogden, UT. Lyle’s funeral service will begin held at 12:00 pm in the same location on Saturday, June 22nd. Interment immediately following the funeral service will be at Leavitt’s Aultorest Memorial Park, 836 36th St. Ogden, UT.