Carol Jean Robinson Borgmeier

Carol Jean Robinson Borgmeier died June 23, 2025, in Bountiful, Utah, with her family by her side. She was a loyal and loving wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and friend.

A true “Christmas Carol,” she was born in 1933 on Christmas Day in Ogden, Utah, to Leone and Eugene Robinson. She attended Polk Elementary, Central Junior High, and graduated from Ogden High School in 1952. She received a B.S. in Home & Family Living in 1956 from Utah State University and an M.S. in Home Management from Iowa State University in 1958. Carol was an officer in Chi Omega sorority at Utah State University. After meeting on a blind date, she married Richard (Dick) William Borgmeier on August 1, 1959. Together they had four children: Jan, Paul, Joel, and Jill. After living in Ogden, Utah, they made their home in Bountiful, Utah, starting in 1963.

Carol enjoyed her rewarding careers as both a homemaker and teacher. Carol learned the value of hard work at a young age babysitting, candling eggs, and delivering dairy products in the neighborhood. She also worked at a movie theater, a flower shop, and an ice cream parlor. She cherished her summers between college working as a waitress at the Union Pacific Dining Lodge in West Yellowstone. Carol was a professor and taught Home Management, Clothing & Textiles, Family Finance, Time Management & Work Simplification at Brigham Young University. She taught Home Economics at South Junior High and was also a secretary for Gene Robinson Food Brokerage Co.

Her generosity was never ending. Carol selflessly found time to volunteer at the Festival of Trees where she was chairman of the gift shop for many years and at the Assistance League of Salt Lake City Thrift Shop. She was an advocate of supporting her favorite charities which included Bountiful Food Pantry, Primary Children's Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and Red Cross, to name a few.

Known to many as Grandma (not just by her own grandchildren), Robbie, Lorac Naej Nosnibor, Helen, and Miss Daisy, Carol was a woman with many interests and hobbies. Carol enjoyed sewing, knitting, gardening, volunteering, traveling, camping, cookouts at Mueller Park, shopping (especially at ZCMI, JCPenney, and Kohl’s), horseback riding, skiing, cross country skiing, entertaining (nothing gave her more joy than hosting parties with her many dishes, china and fine linens), and dancing (with her favorite being tap dancing). Up to her last days she could still do the tap-dancing time step she learned when she was four years old.

Carol loved singing; she had a song for everything whether it be a camp song, fraternity or sorority song, university song, or state song. Country music was her favorite. She loved to tell stories, especially about how it was to be a child growing up during the Depression sharing one Milky Way Bar with her whole family for dessert and WWII rations, raid drills, and getting her blood type tattooed on her at elementary school. Her fondest memories of her childhood were spending time with the neighborhood kids, wearing white gloves to go to town, and taking the Bamberger train from Ogden to Salt Lake City. We all know her least favorite memory of her childhood was being responsible for gathering the eggs from the chicken coop.

Carol was the epitome of being poised and refined and having proper etiquette. She always took pride in her appearance with her cute, curly gray hair for which she would notably receive compliments and loved her clothes and jewelry. She also took great pleasure in caring for her beautiful home, yard, and flowers. She loved decorating for the Christmas holidays. She loved children; babies were her favorite. She liked dogs, especially her childhood dog Tuffy. She collected dolls from all over the world and had a childhood friendship tea cup collection. She enjoyed looking at nature and clouds from the porch and going for scenic drives. Anyone who knew her, knows that ice cream cones were her favorite thing in the world – “Would you like an ice cream cone? No Grandma, but I can get one for you.”

We will miss her wisdom and advice. She always knew the right thing to do and say. She had a great sense of humor and was a superb conversationalist. She had a knack for making every person feel special, interesting, and important. She treasured her many friendships–childhood friends, high school friends, college friends, neighbor friends, and Lunch Bunch friends, as well as friends from Dick’s work travels. She was fortunate to travel worldwide and made many lifelong friendships.

The most important thing to her was being together – one of her greatest skills was creating an environment where everyone wanted to gather together. If you knew Carol, you knew about and were always welcome at her Sunday dinners – if you left hungry it was your own fault. There is not one grandchild’s friend who hasn’t been to at least one Sunday dinner. Christmas was particularly special with a week long celebration with the entire family.

Carol was truly born to be a nurturing parent. She had a knack for keeping her family close. She treasured her family, who was her pride and joy and her greatest accomplishment. Carol loved any opportunity to support her twelve grandchildren at their many events. She always impressed upon her children and grandchildren the importance and value of education and hard work; she modeled an exemplary work ethic and had fun teaching her grandchildren to cook and sew. She was so proud of her children’s and grandchildren’s accomplishments. She always looked forward to the annual extended family vacation to Newport Beach, California–a 50-year tradition for the family.

Thanks for your example and recipe for success–hard work, love, encouragement, forgiveness, patience, and showing by example! You didn’t just make our house a home, but a Home Sweet Home. We miss you already, Mom and Grandma, but you will never be forgotten. We will remember you in our hearts forever!

Carol is survived by her children, Jan Creveling, Paul Borgmeier (Luanne), Joel Borgmeier (Susan), and Jill Braun (Bobby), her grandchildren, Kiffer, Peter, Polly, Suzi, Bergen, Anders, Helle, Luke, Kate, Addy, Lauren, Bailey, and her grandchildren’s significant others, Rose, Jessica, Sergei, Leif, and Grange. Carol was looking forward to meeting and holding her first great grandchild-to-be in a couple of months. She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, and siblings–Ken, Marilyn, Lynn, and infant sister, Joan.

Our family would like to extend the utmost gratitude to Laura Martin, our true angel, for her extraordinary, tender, gentle, and exceptional care this past year. Laura has truly become part of our family. We also thank Visiting Angel Bertha for her devoted care this past year and Camille and Alex Rawle for their care the prior year.

Graveside service - Friday, June 27, 2025, 10:00 AM, Bountiful City Cemetery

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Carol’s name to Primary Children’s Hospital or the Huntsman Cancer Institute.