Obituary: Meltiar Grant Workman
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Mar 18, 2003

Meltiar Grant Workman, age 83, of Salt Lake City, UT, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 14, 2003 after a long and courageous battle with failing health.
Grant was born on Armistice Day, November 11, 1919 in Delta, Utah, the first of seven children born to Meltiar Hatch Workman and Edna Horne Workman. He graduated from Delta High School. He became educated in electronics and was a HAM Radio Operator. He served in the Army during World War II in Alaska. He was a life-time student and became a licensed pilot. He married Beth Bardsley in the Manti Temple in 1944, with whom he had three children. They were later divorced. He married Florence Blain Aagard August 6, 1966 in Elko, Nevada. Grant worked for the Federal Aviation Administration from 1954 until he retired in 1978. During his work for the FAA, he lived in Delta, Utah; Enterprise, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; Death Valley, California; Elko, Nevada; Hawthorne, California and Hollywood/ Burbank, California.

He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Florence; children: Stephen Workman, Richard Workman and Barbara Cheney; eight grandchildren; five step-children: Virginia Johnson, Nanette Olson, Andrew Aagard, Mead Aagard and James Aagard; three sisters: Beth Atkins, Gloria Barfuss, Eilene Ashby; two brothers, Dale Workman and Merlin Workman. Preceded in death by a sister, Ruth Leavitt.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 21, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. at the Cottonwood 10th Ward, 4930 Westmoor Road (1725 East). Friends may call Thursday evening, from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., at the Holbrook Mortuary, 3251 South 2300 East, and at the church on Friday from 9:45 a.m.- 10:45 a.m. prior to the services. Interment: Fountain Green Cemetery, 400 North 100 East, Fountain Green, Utah, Friday at 2:30 p.m. Funeral Directors: The Holbrook Mortuary.