Mckenzi and Marilyn

Mckenzi Dixon:

In the middle of a cold snap - 16 degrees and snowy - Mckenzi Dixon shared that her favorite vacations involved sunshine and the ocean: renting a beach house on Mission Beach in San Diego for a week and taking a Caribbean cruise. Ah, can't you just hear the surf???   But back to reality...

Mckenzi's birthday was May 2nd and she is a senior at Herriman High School.

When she was in 5th grade, the Dixon family moved to their home on Crimson Patch Way from West Jordan.Mckenzi is the only girl in her family and has 3 brothers. To her chagrin, she is not treated like a princess!

Mckenzi is very fortunate to have her great-grandmother, now 104 years old, still living close by. Another family distinction is that her maternal great-grandfather, Elder Robert L. Simpson who passed away in 2003, was a General Authority who married her parents in the Salt Lake Temple. 

Some of Mckenzi's likes are: drawing, film studies and painting. Shrimp is her favorite food, and like many of her peers she enjoys dancing, movies and music.

On the verge of turning 18 in a few months, Mckenzi has one foot in Young Women's and one foot in Relief Society. If you see a cuddly, dark-haired young woman snuggled up to her mom, Kami, in Relief Society some Sunday, please stop and say hello. Watch for those dimples to appear!


Marilyn Bluth

Marilyn Bluth moved into 5046 W. London Bay in July. She is finding that one-by-one, siblings, children, and other family members are moving to the Herriman area. Marilyn recalls a time when Brigham Young sent a member of her family to settle this area. It is like a homecoming of sorts!

Born in El Paso, Texas, Marilyn's parents moved the family to Utah when she was 14. As an adult she moved to Oregon and lived there for 20 years before moving back to Utah to care for her mother who suffered from Alzheimer's. After her mother's passing she felt it was time to move. And we are the lucky recipients!

Marilyn has three children: a daughter in Pocatello, a daughter who moved next door and is renting the Davis' family home while they are serving a mission in England, and a son who is attending school in Eugene. She has five grandchildren, whose visits are always a delight; and also has a cat, who is more like a child than an animal!

This is a stressful time of year for Marilyn working as a dispatcher for Fed-Ex and trying to get everyone's presents delivered on time! When not working, she loves hanging out with her sister - they laugh and have a lot of fun together no matter what they do. One goal Marilyn completed this year is indexing 10,000 names by December 1st (before work got too hectic). Her sister is an indexer at the prison, so they enjoyed a healthy competition!

Marilyn has a fun personality and a beautiful laugh. She will be a wonderful addition to our ward family!