Marvin Thorup

Marvin Stephen Thorup ?Togeather Again?

Marvin Stephen Thorup passed away on Sunday, December 04, 2005. He was born on August 21, 1920, to Mary Ellen Winter Thorup and Walter Leroy Thorup into a family of three boys. One more child followed, Beverley, Steve?s beloved sister, who died in 1942.

Steve grew up on Yale Avenue where he kept a pony in a back yard that extended to Ninth South. He attended East High School for one year before the family moved to California where he finished high school at Fairfax High in Hollywood and where he was classmates, as he was proud to relate, with Mickey Rooney.

Steve?s father died the following year and the family returned to Salt Lake where Steve took a job as a delivery boy, distributing reams of wrapping paper to local businesses on his bicycle. One of his customers, Paris Beauty Supply, offered him a job in their shipping and receiving department where he worked his way up to manager. During this time, Steve participated in baseball clubs, playing for both the Yale Softball Club and the Rio Grande Baseball Club.

During World War Two, Steve was stationed at McClellan Field in Sacramento to become part of the medical corps of the Air Force. While there, he joined a baseball club?this sponsored by the City of Sacramento and the telephone company, which held dances after the games. At one of these dances, he met Shirley Ann Johnson who would become his wife and beloved partner. They were married by a Mormon bishop in Reno, Nevada on November 2, 1944, just before Steve was shipped to Randolph Field in Texas to become a flight surgeon?s assistant. From Texas, Steve was shipped to Macon, Georgia, where, just before Christmas in 1944, Shirley joined him, working for a trucking company just across the street from the base.

When the war ended, Steve and Shirley moved in with Steve?s mother, Mary Ellen Thorup, who became a lifelong friend of Shirley?s. Shortly after, they moved to their own apartment on First South and Second East. Both Steve and Shirley took classes at the Henniger Business College where Steve?s instructors included Vic Laughlin and Mel Thayne.

In 1950, Shirley was pregnant and Steve took a higher paying job as an asbestos worker for a construction company, which allowed them to buy a new Buick and small house on Stratford Avenue where house payments of $60 a month included taxes and insurance. Two other daughters followed and in 1965, Steve and Shirley?s marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Steve was to remain in the construction business for the rest of his working life. He worked for Bullough Asbestos until he retired at 55 as a foreman.

Upon his retirement, Steve helped Shirley with her accounting business, bringing it into the computer age. Steve and Shirley raised three girls and helped raise their nine grandchildren. They were very involved in the Church, serving on a mission to Washington D.C. in 1994. Steve and Shirley traveled widely and worldwide. Shirley passed away in 2002.

Steve is survived by daughters Janice Thorup Philip Salembier, Judy White Phillip, Joyce Rolfe Rich, and grandchildren Eli, Winter, and Chaz Salembier; Jena, Matthew, Micah, Kiera, and Isaiah White; and Stephan Garcia.

Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. at Russon Brothers Salt Lake Mortuary, 255 South 200 East. Friends may call from 12:00 to 1:15. Burial will follow in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, 3401 South Highland Drive, Salt Lake City. Online guest book and directional maps available at www.russonmortuary.com