Hugh Richard Gailey of Taylor peacefully passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, at the age of 85 after a bout with cancer. Funeral services were held Sept. 26 at Silver Creek Mortuary in Taylor, with interment in the Reed Hatch Memorial Cemetery, also in Taylor.

Hugh was born July 30, 1930, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Lawrence Edward and Grace Edith Gailey. His fraternal grandfather was Heber Charles Gailey and his maternal grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Davis.

He was the youngest of five sons. There was five years’ difference between him and his brothers, so he took the brunt of many tricks that the older boys played on him.

Hugh married Patricia S. Lloyd in September 1950 and they had four children, three sons and one daughter. After 13 years of marriage they were divorced. He then married Jerry Lynn Terrell in 1966 and she passed away in 2000. They adopted one daughter. Then, with the help of his son and wife, Hugh was registered on the LDS single line, and that is where Mary Martin found what she was looking for in a mate. Ten months later they were married in 2001, and sealed in the Snowflake Arizona Temple in 2002.

Hugh was raised in Sandy, Utah, where he learned the value of hard work. The family had a milk business where they milked 35 to 40 cows by hand before they got a milking machine. Next, his father went into the business of raising pigs and chickens. Hugh worked on the farm until he married.

He loved camping and fishing, and had fished almost every lake and stream in and around Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hugh was drafted in the U.S. Army, stationed in Camp Gordon (now known as Fort Gordon), Ga. He became an instructor in the Army Company 16 BTGCRTC (Basic Training Group Signal Corps Replacement Training Center), was a sergeant in the Signal Corps, and was a veteran of the Korean War, serving from March 1951 through March 1953.

He was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and belonged to the Taylor 8th Ward, Taylor Stake in Taylor, where he lived for 14 years. He held the office of High Priest, worked in the Snowflake Temple, held the title of Stake Indexing director, was called on a worldwide mission dealing with Family History for two years starting in 2008 and he was a home teacher.

Hugh was a humble and mild-mannered man who lived by example of being honest, hard working and loving. He never used words to hurt or belittle anyone, and believed happiness came from caring about others–a great example to pattern our lives after.

Survivors include his five children and four stepchildren, his biological descendants of 20 grandchildren and spouses, 24 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson, and his step descendants of 22 grandchildren and spouses, 21 great-grandchildren and spouses, and one great-great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by one great-great-grandson, and two stepchildren.