Jewel Marie Mangus Hepworth, 87, passed away on September 12, 2024, after a long battle with congestive heart failure. Jewel was born May 11, 1937, in Lovell, Wyoming to Elbert Roy and Agness B. Mangus. Jewel attended schools in Davis County and graduated from Davis High School in 1955. Jewel married her sweetheart, Ted Lamar Hepworth, on June 17, 1955, in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple and together they had six children, five boys, one girl.

In fall of 1959, Ted and Jewel bought a new house in Centerville, Utah and made it into their lifetime, loving home. Jewel was a devoted Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and great Grandmother. She was very active in her children's school, church, and community programs and activities. She loved to be involved in their lives and was always looking for a way to make them laugh, too; she was a bit of a comedian and would go for the big belly laughs especially at family gatherings when all her kids came home for celebrations and holidays.

From her youth, Jewel was a gifted artist and continually perfected her talents, oil painting and drawing with charcoal pastels, designing and sewing clothes for herself (and later for all of her children), and creating decorations for her family's floral business (Western Floral) while growing up. Years later in her life she obtained a business license to open and operate her own floral business in her home in 1970, becoming a pioneer in the world of female entrepreneurs. By 1980, her business, JewelArt Floral, successfully outgrew the in-home floral shop and relocated to the commercial location of south Main Street in Centerville, UT, and was renamed Hepworth Floral and Gifts, at that time. In 1982, her husband Ted had retired from his employment prompting Jewel to ask him to join and help with the rapidly growing floral business. Becoming busier every year, Jewel's floral shop grew to include a second location in Farmington, UT. Jewel owned the thriving fresh flower and silks design business for 24 years, finally selling the business in 1994 and was able to retire.

After retiring, Jewel and her husband Ted loved volunteering as temple workers at the Bountiful, Utah LDS Temple for 11 years. Of all the positions that Jewel held in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Grandma" of the nursery (1996-1997) was her favorite. Through the years since, some of those sweet children still call her Grandma, much to her delight.

In her later years, Jewel loved gardening in her yard, growing all kinds of flowers and plants, tending to them for many years, even in her motorized wheelchair when she was unable to stand. She dearly missed being able to tend her garden as her illness progressed. Jewel also held a lifetime love of animals, particularly finding comfort and joy in the company of the many kittens and cats she provided a warmhearted home to throughout her life.

Jewel is survived by her brother Wallace Mangus (Ramona); her children Grant (Erika), Quinn (Lisa), and Janemarie; seven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins. Jewel was preceded in death by her parents Roy and Agness; husband Ted (2016); and three sons, Roy (2008), Mike (2012) and Brian (2020).

Thank you, Lexi, Jenn, Monica, Melanie, Dr. Oaks, and everyone else at Elevation Hospice and Bountiful Internal Medicine for your excellent care. In honoring her wishes, Jewel requested there be no funeral. She believed in furthering science and asked that her body be donated to the U of U Medical School.