Betty Ann Bruce Cornia

Betty Ann Bruce Cornia, age 83, passed away Sunday, July 27, 2025, at Evanston Regional Hospital after battling multiple health issues for many years.

Betty was born on January 2, 1942, to Clarence "Red" and Betsy Longhurst Bruce in Salt Lake City, Utah.  She was the oldest living sibling to Bob, Judy and June.  Her stomping grounds growing up were north Evanston and Almy.  She met Scott Cornia on an impromptu date on June 18, 1959, when she agreed to go to a drive-in movie with him so he wouldn't be the third wheel to the other couple.  This introduction was made with curlers in Betty's hair but obviously that didn't matter.  Scott and Betty went on to be married exactly one year later after an April Fool's proposal backfired on him.

Scott and Betty began married life in Randolph where they raised their family.  They've been two stepping through life for the last 65 years.

Betty was a very talented seamstress, sewing hundreds of wedding dresses, brides maids dresses, cheerleading and drill team outfits and alterations.  She loved to make western shirts, making matching shirts for the family and even a ventriloquist.  One of her greatest sewing accomplishments was winning the Grand Champion State Fair for a suit coat she made for Scott.  She was so proud when he wore it.

Some of her other talents included woodworking.  She made clocks for wedding gifts and loved to refinish old furniture as well.  Quilting was another love and the quilts she made are too numerous to count.  She loved both a vegetable garden and a flower garden.  She was an avid crocheter and many friends and family members received her hot pads or dish rags to be cherished.  Knitting was not her favorite thing but she still completed a sweater for Brian.

Betty was a 4-H leader for several decades.  She led many clubs.  Everything from sewing to small engines, tractors, woodworking, shooting sports and we are forgetting many others.  Many cold nights were spent at 4-H camp in an old Army tent.  Betty also taught hunter safety, along with Scott, to several Randolph and Woodruff kids and adults.  She could out shoot any of her students with open sights and a pump Remington .22 gun.  She was also a Cub Scout leader.

Cooking was another past time she enjoyed.  You could often smell the aroma of her homemade bread and with her raspberry, chokecherry and currant jams, it was the best in Rich County.  She made the worlds best raspberry pie.

Betty was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She held callings in all of the church organizations but her favorite calling was being a visiting teacher.  Again choosing their special date of June 18, they were sealed for time and all eternity in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple in 2010 on their 50th anniversary.  

She will be missed by her loving husband Scott Cornia, daughters, Wendy (Stewart) Cook, Suzy (Stuart) Holmes, Karen (Robert) West, and Terri (Steve) Knudsen; son Brian (Karrin) Cornia, brother, Bob Bruce and sister, June Morris.  She is survived by 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren as well as several nieces and nephews.

Betty is preceded in death by  a daughter, Jeannie Kay, her parents Clarence "Red" and Betsy Bruce, a sister Judy Morris, brother Billie Bruce, and in-laws Dodge and Lillie Cornia.

Family meant every thing to Betty.

Funeral Services will be held Monday, August 4, 2025, at the Randolph LDS Chapel, at 11:00 am.  Viewing will be Sunday evening, August 3, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm and prior to service Monday, from 9:30 to 10:45 am both at the Randolph Chapel.  Interment will be in the Woodruff Cemetery.