Wilford Blaine Blanchard

Blaine was born on March 26, 1936 to Raymond J and Helen Broberg Blanchard. He passed away at his home on December 24, 2025.

Blaine had lots of hobbies, some started early in his life. He enjoyed working on Hot Rod Cars and belonged to a club in High School. He also did track and field for Logan High School along with rodeo.

He served a mission to Norway in 1958. After his mission he stayed and traveled in Norway and Sweden looking into his heritage with 2 other mission companions. He had the honor to be at the London dedication and sadly missed the Switzerland dedication by just a couple weeks. But he still made it back after his mission. He tried to make it from Norway down to California but the war is what brought him back home. He continued his dedication to the church by serving many church callings.

After his mission he came home and bred Simatall cattle and sold them to one of America's biggest cattle ranches "Flying Diamond Ranches" out of Texas, Florida, and Idaho. He only did this for a short time because he wanted to get married.

Blaine was dedicated to schooling, he has many certificates and graduated from many schools; some being Utah State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and North Carolina University. He became an Industrial Hygienist, and Engineer and many more.

He married a girl that he had known since the 4th grade from Boise Idaho: Lela Jean Blanchard. They were married in the Logan Temple on July 3rd 1962 and moved to SLC where he got hired to work for Hercules Incorporated, then later on Kennecott and then the US Army where he retired.

Blaine and Lela had 4 children. Tory, Helen, Brenda, Sid. and then later on adopted their grandson Jason at the age of 2.

Blaine and his family later on moved from Taylorsville to Hunter which was closer to his family farm. Where he taught his children many life skills, like gardening, raising and harvesting crops, Cattle and more.

After retirement from the US Army he moved his family to his family home in Logan, Utah, where he resided until his passing.

He is survived by his wife Lela Jean Blanchard, his children Tory Blaine Blanchard (wife Mary Blanchard) of Brigham City, Brenda Lee Campbell (Husband Mike Campbell) of Logan City, Sidney Ray Blanchard (Wife Jen Blanchard) of Logan Utah, Jason Wolford Blanchard (Wife Jessica Blanchard) of Logan Utah, 10 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by Raymond J Blanchard (Father), Helen Broberg Blanchard (Mother), Raymond Reid Blanchard (Brother) and Helen Jean Payne (Daughter).

Funeral services will be Saturday January 3rd, 2026 at 11:00 AM at Allen-Hall Mortuary (34 E Center, Logan, Utah). A viewing will be held prior from 9:30-10:30 AM. Interment will be at the Logan Cemetery.

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