Reva Riddle Obituary

Reva Ogden Riddle

1933 - 2025

- Reva Ogden Riddle passed away July 17, 2025, surrounded by family. She was born September 1, 1933 to Owen & Marguerite Winget Ogden in Richfield, Utah, where she grew up and married her high school sweetheart, Carroll Rockney Riddle (deceased Nov. 7, 2015.) They raised their five children in Spring Glen, Utah.

She worked for many years as the secretary for the Spring Glen Water Company and as the office manager for an optometrist in Price, Utah, after her children were grown. She has traveled many places around the world but her favorite place to be was at home with her family. Carroll and Reva loved living in Spring Glen, where they grew big gardens, teaching their children the value of hard work and the law of the harvest. She canned hundreds of bottles of fruit, vegetables, and jam every year, as well as venison and fish. She was a wonderful cook and baker and enjoyed having family, friends, and missionaries over for dinner. She prepared a nice Sunday dinner for family almost weekly, including the Sunday before she passed away. Reva was an excellent seamstress, skillfully mending and altering any and all items brought to her, sewing school clothes, doll clothes, uniforms, temple aprons, and especially quilts. Each family member has received at least one quilt made by her loving hands.

Family ties are extremely important to her, and she has fostered unity and harmony in her family circle. Through the years she and Carroll have supported their children in their many activities, attending their games as well as taking their family on many camping and fishing trips, especially to their beloved Fish Lake, Utah, for the annual family reunion. Every holiday she would invite the family for dinner and has hosted a Christmas Eve party for all her descendants since moving to Riverton to be closer to family in 1999.

She enjoyed reading, watching Jeopardy!, doing jigsaw puzzles, walking, visiting with family and friends, gardening, and especially studying the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She was a woman of great faith with powerful prayers. She loved her Savior and was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, attending the temple at least weekly for the past several years. She has served faithfully in leadership positions in all the auxiliaries of the Church, yet felt her greatest calling was as a mother in Zion, where she taught her children by loving example and the teachings of Jesus Christ. She especially loved callings where she taught the Gospel. She has ministered to others in various ways throughout her life, almost always without being asked or assigned, often taking home-baked goods to new ward members and those with recent trauma in their lives. She was a temple worker at the Jordan River Temple, served a Church Service Mission for 10 years at the Bishops Storehouse and at the Church History Museum. The scripture she chose for her missionary plaque exemplifies her life: D&C 11:20 "Behold, this is your work, to keep my commandments, yea, with all your might, mind and strength."

Her children are: L. Russell Riddle (Rosalyn Berrett), Jan Phillips (Willy), Jackie Shorts (Jim), Gary Riddle (Diane Shimmin), Renee Riddle Moore. She has 23 grandchildren and 64 great-grandchildren. She has 4 living siblings: Betty Ogden Lewis (Wayne, deceased), Bruce Ogden, Clyde Ogden (Claudette), Miles Ogden (Carla).

Funeral services will be held Monday, July 28, at 11:00 a.m. at the Redwood Ward Building, 12070 Laurel Chase Drive, Riverton, Utah. A viewing will be held Sunday, July 27, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Jenkins-Soffe Funeral Home, 1007 West South Jordan Parkway (10600 South), South Jordan, Utah, and at the ward building from 9:30-10:30 a.m. prior to the service. Interment will be at the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park South Valley. Online condolences may be shared at www.jenkins-soffe.com.