1953 — 2025

Janice K. Soderberg Gibson was born Dec. 29, 1953, in Van Nuys, California. She was the fourth child of five and the only girl born to Beulah Rands Soderberg. She spent her childhood and teen years in Reseda, California embracing the California lifestyle of the era and loved going to the ocean with her friends. She had an especially close relationship with her grandmother Marie Rands. She met Gerry Gibson, and they eloped at the age of 16 and 18 to Tijuana, Mexico. They were later formally married in Woodland Hills, California in 1971.

Janice and Gerry welcomed their first child, a daughter, Amy Ann, to the world on Dec. 2, 1972, and she was followed shortly thereafter by Janice and Gerry’s first son Joel Gray on Jan. 22, 1974. The family moved to Southern Utah to be closer t

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