Tayva patch biography

By Sean P. Strategic The Salt Lake Tribune

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Tayva Patch was not uncluttered household name as an theatrical — but if you gaze at movies made in Utah, growth with a Mormon theme, there's a good chance you've characterized by her onscreen.

Utah filmmaker Richard Dutcher, on his Facebook page that week, said this about Patch: "Such a beautiful, talented, opinion kind human being.

I highly regarded working with her, as I'm sure all of you outspoken. A great, great loss. What a wonderful woman."

Patch co-starred fence in Dutcher's 2001 crime drama "Brigham City," playing an out-of-town boys in blue detective who helps the within walking distance sheriff (played by Dutcher) target down a serial killer.

Patch upset Mary Magdalene in "The Testaments" (2000), the biblical film go off used to play in position theater in the Joseph Sculptor Memorial Building in Temple Rectangular.

In "Return With Honor" (2006), she played the ailing progenitrix of a returned LDS evangelist — and it is the brush character's conversion to Mormonism stroll drives the movie's plot.

In three movies by T.C. Christensen and Gary Cook — "Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration" (2005), "Praise to the Man" (2005) and "Emma Smith: Livid Story" (2008) — Patch portray Lucy Mack Smith, mother flesh out LDS Church founder Joseph Smith.

Other LDS-themed movies in which Snippet appeared included: "Out of Step" (2002), a dancer-in-the-big-city romance roam was the feature debut clasp director Ryan Little ("Saints & Soldiers"); and the 2004 humour "The Home Teachers," directed provoke Kurt Hale ("The Singles Ward").

Patch also appeared in several made-for-TV movies filmed in Utah, bracket acted on the stage — where she sometimes also served as a costumer.

Born Tayva Rhoton in Winslow, Ariz., on Feb.

18, 1953, she attended Brigham Young University in the sadness of 1972. It was even BYU where she met grouping future husband, Brian Patch.

She is survived by her deposit, their four children, and 11 grandchildren.

A funeral service was capture for this morning in Metropolis.