Shannon Savage Magleby grew up in American Fork, UT. Her grandparents lived next door to each other (yes, LaRae married the new boy-next-door, Kenneth, when she met him after he got home from serving in the Navy on Saipan). Shannon would have Thanksgiving dinner at one grandparents’ house then take all of those cousins to her other grandparents’ house to visit all her other cousins. Grandma Tracy was the AF Children’s Librarian and Shannon thought all of those books belonged to her grandmother so she learned to read early and often and still loves to read. Her father started Savage Brothers, Inc., a trucking company, with his dad and brothers, and it continues to grow and help others. Shannon took piano lessons from Adolph J. Fahrer in Provo during 5th grade and still loves to play the piano. Then her family lived in Craig, CO, for 2 years (where she learned to play the organ from Helen Calder), then came back to AF. She met Kirk in junior high school and told her best friend that she was going to marry him some day.
Shannon became a Type 1 diabetic when she was 16 years old. Kirk and Shannon were friends, had mostly the same friends, and did lots of the same activities in high school; they made friends with many of the same people at BYU as Shannon studied English and French to become a junior high/high school teacher. They married in June 1976, raised their 4 children mostly in American Fork, but chose to move to Atlanta, GA then Baltimore, MD to give their children an idea of what it was like to live in the world that was not just northern Utah County. Those children with 11 grandchildren now live on the four different sides of the United States, so Shannon and Kirk visit them for births, baptisms, graduations, plays, and concerts often. Shannon taught English and French in two high schools for 24 years, then retired and has become a substitute teacher for former colleagues and is an instructor at HIVES which provides educational activities for 21-58 year-old people with Down’s Syndrome.
Her favorite callings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been Primary chorister (which she has been 5 times), nursery leader, Relief Society president, ministering sister, and helper in the Heritage Branch at an adult care center in American Fork. She loves to help other people. She loves to visit with other people. She loves to talk with Heavenly Father and listen to Him through the Holy Ghost. She loves and appreciates Jesus Christ and everything He has done for her and for everyone else in the world. She loves the world He created for us—-especially Mt. Timpanogos and birds. She has a testimony of the truths that she has learned from the Book of Mormon. She is still learning.