Utah Mothers Association of American Mothers Inc.®

Utah Mother of the Year® Historical


Honored Mothers Through the Years

Past Mothers of the Year, Mothers of Achievement and 2020 Honorees: Back Row: Sandi Suarez (2020 Honoree), Diane Weese (1989 Young Mother), Claudia Eliason (2008 Mother of the Year), Jan Zogmaister (2015 Mother of the Year), Kelly Ballard (2020 Honoree), Wendy McKenna (1991 National Young Mother), Cecelia Benson (1987 Young Mother), Amy Kroff (2019 Mother of the Year), Renee Hawkes (2016 Mother of the Year) Second Row: LouAnn Christensen (2017 Mother of the Year), Heidi Monson (2005 Young Mother), Sharon Lay (2017 Mother of Achievement), Melanie Stoker (2014 Mother of the Year), Karalie Stokes (2020 Honoree), Tamara Taylor (2020 Honoree) Front Row: Dixie Clifford (2009 Mother of the Year), Donna Ross (2020 Honoree), Barbara Beers Hale (2000 Mother of the Year), Tina Cannon (2018 Mother of the Year), Barbara Booth (2020 Mother of the Year), Pat Allred (2004 Ogden Honoree)

2024  Monica Godfrey, Ogden

2023  Meg Johnson – Farmington

2022  Nancy Kennedy – Brigham City

2020  Barbara Booth – Ogden

2019  Amy Kroff – Alpine

2018  Tina Cannon – Mountain Green

2017  LouAnn Christensen – Brigham City

2016   Renee Hawkes – North Logan

2015   Jan Zogmaister – West Haven

2014   Melanie Stoker – Herriman

2013   Judith Cook – Vineyard *

2012   Cynthia Vance Richards – Orem

2011   Sally Ann Fitzgerald Olsen – Orem

2010   Shirley K. Tong – Orem

2009   Dixie Ruth Olsen Clifford – Orem

2008   Claudia Fuhriman Eliason – Ogden

2007   Carol Ann Manzel Stephens – Farr West

2006   Michaelene Grassli – Pleasant View

2005   Jeanne J. Godfrey – Ogden

2004   Yvonne Maddox Roderick – North Logan

2003   Brenda Moore Anthony – North Logan

2001   Sharon Collette Card Healy – Ogden

2000   Barbara Beers Hale – Huntsville

1999   Amelia Samson Hernandez – Ogden

1998   Joan George Erickson – Perry

1997   Fern Holley Wimmer – Ogden

1996   Sybil Shumway Stewart – Logan

1995   Arlea Hope Howell – Ephraim

1994   Roselyn Tanner Christensen – Layton

1993   Betty June Larsen – North Logan*

1992   Kathryn Hunsaker Hadfield – Brigham City

1991   Dorothy Jensen Stoddard – Ephraim

1990   Nadine Matus – Ogden*

1989   Joanne Todd McKenna – Hyde Park

1988   Helen Bailey Dyreng – Manti

1987   Verda Mae Fuller Christensen – Salt Lake City

1986   Anita Nichols Bader – Salt Lake City

1985   Marion Cox Arave – Hooper

1984   Phyllis Dixon Shaw – Ogden

1983   Lydia Fairbanks Yates Burrows – South Salt Lake City

1982   Eileen Robinson Dunyon – Sandy

1981   Amy Y. Valentine – Provo

1980   Norma Clark Larsen – Bountiful

1979   Frances Davis Burtenshaw – Logan*

1978   Margaret Church Callister – Delta

1977   Ruby Timms Price – Layton

1976   Lucile MarkhamThorne – Orem

1975   Elva Acklam Stark – Salt Lake City

1974   Florence Todd Britsch – Orem

1973   Caroline Eyring Miner – Salt Lake City

1972   Virginia F. Cutler – Provo

1971   Cecil Mann Fisher – Orderville

1970   Alta Estella Cutler Rust -Vernal

1969   Elizabeth Peterson McKay – Ogden

1968   Kathleen Smith Farnsworth – Beaver

1967   Marian G. Nielson – Blanding

1966   Irene Thompson Fletcher – Logan

1965   Lorena Chipman Fletcher – Provo *

1964   Lurena E. Warnick – Pleasant Grove

1963   Ora Nelson Anderson – Brigham City

1962   Ethel Dimond Smith – Murray

1961   Nettie Jane Barber Wilcox – Kaysville

1960   Grace Watkins Seneregger – Midway

1959   Eva Leona Hansen Carlson – Richmond

1958   Elsie Richards Kohler – Midway

1957   Genevieve Raine Curtis – Salt Lake City

1956   Luella Adams (Mrs. Harley) Dalton – Parowan

1955   Lavina Christenson Fugal – Pleasant Grove *

1954   Emma Ray (Mrs. David O.) McKay – Salt Lake City

1953   Valera Wakefield (Mrs. Jessie) Washburn – Salt Lake City

1952   Cora Lindsay (Mrs. Milton) Bennion – Salt Lake City

1951   Clara Hall (Mrs. John C.) Johnson – Provo

1950   Mary H. (Mrs. James H.) Linford – Logan

1949   Abigail Rees (Mrs. Roland A.) Madsen – Brigham City

1948   Mimi Murdock (Mrs. D.A.) Broadbent -Salt Lake City

1947   Elfrieda (Mrs. Wilfred W.) Richards – Logan

1946   Mabel (Mrs. H.Ray) Pond – Richmond

* Denotes National Mother of the Year