Velma Rose Jarman

Velma Rose Petersen Jarman returned to her eternal home on March 5, 2024, after 94 years of tried-and-true faithful living. Her eternal companion, Richard Reed Jarman and her son, Mark Randall Jarman, were there to cheerfully and lovingly greet her. Velma leaves behind her sons, Alan Reed (Teri), Earl Chris (Jill), daughter, Terri Evonne (Eric) Palmer and son, Kelly Richard (Joanne). Velma also leaves behind a continuing posterity of 33 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchildren.

Velma was born August 18, 1929, to Niels Andrew and Susie Annie Petersen, in the farming town of Pinedale, Arizona. She started out life tiny, weighing only 4 ½ lbs. She stayed tiny all of her life, but what she lacked in height, she made up for in spunk and stamina. She was the last of 8 children and the first for her mother to have a doctor at her birth. Velma loved her farm life in Pinedale, was a daddy’s girl, loved to dance, loved high school, loved her life-long friends and loved her Savior.

In 1949, a very tall and handsome man with lots of wavy, dark hair swept Velma off her feet and they were married for time and all eternity in the Mesa Temple on December 9, 1949. They built their home in Phoenix and from their love they welcomed and raised their 5 children there.

Velma’s life was always filled with adventure. She loved packing the family camper and enjoying the White Mountains in the summer. Reed was a private pilot and only needed the slightest excuse to go on a trip. Velma was also busy with fund-raising bazaars, decorating for weddings, going on wild trips across the country with her sisters, creating fabulous cookies to deliver for others and she made the most delicious meals from scratch that were feasts never to be forgotten. She had a beautiful voice, played the piano by ear and never went anywhere without her hair done. Most of all, she was a caring, doting wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

Velma had a sincere and valiant testimony of our Father in Heaven’s plan of salvation. She served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Naperville Illinois Mission. This testimony gave her strength during some of the hardest trials that a wife and mother can be asked to bear. She left a legacy of faith for her family to follow and we will forever cherish and honor her. Thank you, Mom, we love you. Till we meet again.

Funeral services will be Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 11 AM, preceded by visitation at 10 AM at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints building on the NW corner of Queen Creek and Crismon, 21550 E Queen Creek Rd., Queen Creek, AZ 85142. The interment will be at Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary and Cemetery, 719 N 27 th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 95009.

Arrangements by Bunker’s University Chapel, www.bunkerfuneral.com. Should this obituary appear anywhere but bunkerfuneral.com, please check our website for accurate details and service information.