Margaret 'Maggie' Blair Favero

Brides, students, dinosaurs and the Ogden community lost a dedicated, loving friend on June 28, 2025.

Maggie was born to Seth M. and Zella Blair on October 26, 1938, in Ogden. She would often say she was the “youngest and most loved” of seven children. She attended Weber County Schools graduating from Weber High in 1955. During her first two years of college at Weber State, as a social butterfly, she participated in countless campus activities. She was involved in LaDianaeda Sorority and later served as president. She concluded her college experience graduating from Utah State University with a degree in elementary education. As a lifelong career educator, Maggie was always giving and felt it important to teach this gift to her students. Every year her class would raise money to donate to various causes in the community. Her students will remember the effect that service had on them.

On August 18, 1964, she married her high school best friend, Ned Lynn Favero, in the Salt Lake Temple. Maggie was the original wedding planner for the Wasatch Front. She and Ned opened The White House Reception Center with their own wedding and went on to help plan and create hundreds of beautiful weddings. Ned’s creative talent combined with Maggie’s magnetic personality made brides’ dreams come true.

After retiring from the wedding business, Maggie returned to her first love, teaching. Fourth grade was her passion, and her students were the unwitting beneficiaries as they were exposed to her love of art, literature, and countless other subjects. She would often say “I never taught a student I didn’t love.” After teaching in the public-school setting, she became the education director at Eccles Dinosaur Park, continuing to shape young lives and minds through her talents until she ultimately retired at age 73. While working full time and raising two children, Maggie volunteered in many community activities including: Days of 47 Parade Chair, President of Weber State College (WSC) Alumni, member of the WSC Institutional Council, Ambassador to WSC men’s basketball team.

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she served with her heart and soul in whatever she was called to do. Maggie was very talented and creative in cross stitch, needlepoint, knitting and crochet work. In her “spare time,” she created many beautiful pieces and would give the cherished finished products to her friends and loved ones. After she moved to Avamere at Mountain Ridge Assisted Living, every new resident was welcomed with a hand knit dish cloth.

Maggie was a beloved mother and grandmother. We will miss her sharp wit, sweet sarcasm and great sense of humor. She was adored throughout the community and known far and wide. There was never a time she went somewhere in Ogden that she wasn’t stopped and greeted by several people because of the many lives she touched and her many associations.

Maggie is survived by her two children, Ned Lynn Favero, Jr. and FaLesha (Dustin) Cooper and grandson, Logan Cooper. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ned; parents; and siblings, Marion Hoyt, Robert Blair, Bettie Bond, Ed Blair, Seth M. Blair, Jr., and Karen Lofgreen

The family would like to give a special thanks to the staff, past and present of Avamere at Mountain Ridge. She was always telling people “They take such good care of me here.” We are forever grateful to everyone.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 11 a.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit with family to celebrate Maggie on Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Ogden City Cemetery, 1875 Monroe Blvd.

In lieu of flowers a donation can be made to the Ogden Eccles Art Center Ned and Maggie Favero Award of Excellence or Eccles Dinosaur Park as a tribute to her love of art and children.