Anne Boyack Prestwich

Anne Boyack Prestwich, 88, passed away peacefully due to natural causes on April 2, 2025, in South Jordan, Utah. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, daughter, friend, missionary, educator, church leader, civic leader, patriot, and disciple of Jesus Christ.

She was born on January 31, 1937, in Spanish Fork, Utah, to Ray Miller and Kate Marie (Tippetts) Boyack. After living part of her childhood in South Dakota and Colorado, her family settled in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In high school, Anne met Larry Prestwich at a church event, after which he asked her to attend the upcoming New Year’s Eve Dance. They hit it off so well that they talked for hours in her driveway following the dance. Thus began a lifelong love affair.

After high school, they got engaged just prior to Larry leaving to serve a full-time mission in France and Switzerland for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While he was away in Europe, Anne worked for the Marriott Corporation in Washington, DC. Shortly after he came back from his mission, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on December 11, 1957.

While Larry finished his undergraduate and master’s degree in Utah, Anne worked as a self-employed cosmetologist. The family eventually settled in 1968 in Sterling, Colorado.

While living in Sterling, Anne again worked as a hair stylist and eventually served as the lead instructor and program director for the Cosmetology Program at Northeastern Junior College. She loved teaching and mentoring her students, and her students adored her.

Anne always felt that being a mother was her greatest accomplishment and her greatest joy. She and Larry attended thousands of their children’s games, concerts, and activities, missing almost nothing. It’s impossible to quantify the loaves of bread and dozens of cookies she baked or the meals she prepared and mouths she fed over her many decades as a wife, mother, and friend.

Wherever she lived, Anne gave 100% of her creativity, her effort, and her heart to any good work she was engaged in. And there were SO MANY good works! She was amazingly talented; she could sew, cook, bake, hand-dip homemade chocolates, do hair, decorate beautifully, tell great stories, teach, lead, raise money for good causes, and do anything she had interest in doing. She was happy to share what she had: her knowledge, her wisdom, her food, her stories, her home, her opinions (typically tempered with kindness), and her rock-solid testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She was supremely confident, but the key motive for all her achievements was love. Her Christlike love of each of God’s children was her greatest talent; it was her “super power.”

She served faithfully in numerous callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including Relief Society president, Primary president, service missionary, teacher, and counselor in numerous auxiliary presidencies. In addition, Anne and Larry served a full-time mission in the Paris France Mission from 2007 to 2009.

In 2013 they moved to Longmont, Colorado. Larry passed away in 2023, and in 2024, Anne moved into senior living in South Jordan, Utah.

Anne will be lovingly remembered by her seven children: Jozianne (Brian) Bartholomew, Allison (Todd) Mitton, Paul (Melanie), David (Katie), Spencer (Dian), Tyler (Micah), and Aaron (Natalie). She was the proud grandma to 25 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Sunday, April 13, 2025, at the Sagewood senior living community, located at 11289 S. Oakmond Rd., South Jordan, Utah. Family and friends are invited to a Visitation from 2:00-2:45 p.m., followed by the Memorial Service at 3:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, Anne always asked that people go out and get a nice haircut.