Max Hirschi

Max G Hirschi was born Sept 5, 1930 in Brigham City Utah.  After 85 years of learning, he graduated from this life on April 28, 2016.  He passed peacefully at his home in Kaysville Utah, surrounded by his family after “finishing the good fight.”

Max was the son of Rulon and Ruth (Goodliffe) Hirschi.  He married Patricia Ruth Bott on Sept 11, 1958 in the Logan Utah Temple.  They are the parents of seven children.

Max graduated from Box Elder High School and from BYU with bachelors and masters degrees, the latter in Religious Education.  He served twice as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; first in the Great Lakes Mission from 1950 to 1952 and then with his wife in the Washington DC North Mission from 1997 to 2000.  He served in the Korean War from 1953 to 1954.

Max was a seminary teacher in the LDS Church Education System for 34 years, was an ordinance worker in the Bountiful Temple, and served in countless church callings including Bishop of the Kaysville 1st Ward.

He never ceased learning and found great joy in studying the scriptures.  He was an avid gardener and loved the mountains and outdoors.  For many years, once the cherries were off at the Hirschi Brothers Fruit Farm, he could be found backpacking with his boys in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.  Nothing was more important to him than his family and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

He was preceded in death by his parents and older brother Dellas.  He is survived by his sweetheart of 58 years;  his children Joseph (Carol-Lynne), Douglas (Kristen), RuthAnn Manning (Kyle), Clark (Deanna), Kenneth (Linda), Jonathan (Kim), and Curtis (Becky); 33 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and his siblings, Maureen, Donna, Boyd, Dorothy, and Linda.

A special thanks to Drs. Robert Stephenson, Blake Hamilton, and Cory Ferguson for giving Miracle Max two additional decades of life.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the LDS Church’s Perpetual Education or General Missionary Funds in Max’s name.

Viewing will be Friday, May 6th from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Kaysville LDS Tabernacle (198 W Center St) and Saturday, May 7th from 12:00-1:30 pm.  Funeral Services will be in the same location on Saturday, May 7th at 2:00 pm.  Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery.

Services entrusted to Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 North Main.