Milton Joseph Rasmussen was born May 30, 1918. Died February 21, 2012, in Kennewick, WA. His parents were Joseph J. Rasmussen and Stella Anine Law. He had two sisters, Violet Edward Beutler and Mae Kenneth Nyman. All of them predeceased him. He is survived by his wife Betty Marie Lyman Rasmussen. Milton was born in a log cabin his father built in Sublet, ID, a midwife in attendance. Years later, when he needed a birth certificate to apply for a job with Remington Arms, he obtained the appropriate paper, filled it out himself and went to see the midwife, who was still living, to obtain her signature. He has said he was smart enough at the age of one year to leave Sublet and move with his parents to West Millville, UT. There he attended West Millville Elementary School, graduated and moved on to South Cache High School in Hyrum, UT, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1936. He then entered the Utah State Agricultural College USU in Logan, UT. He interrupted his college education to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California from 1938-1940. He then returned to the university and graduated with a BS degree in Chemistry. While continuing his education he also taught Sunday school and was a Boy Scout neighborhood commissioner through May of 1942. He was not a veteran of the armed forces due to color blindness the Navy rejected his application to join. He spent the war years of 1942 through to the end of that conflict working for Remington Arms supplying the ammunition needed by the armed forces, and Du Pont Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, and the Hanford Project in Richland, WA. After the war he continued to work at the Hanford Project, employed there by Du Pont, then General Electric and later by the Atomic Energy Commission until his retirement. In 1943 he hired in with Remington Arms in Bridgeport, CT, and was then transferred to Lowell, MA, where he met the girl who became his wife. Milton and Betty Marie Lyman were married November 25, 1943, in her parents' home in Westport, CT. A missionary for the LDS church officiated. A year later the marriage was sealed in the Logan temple of the LDS Church. Since his marriage he has been active in his church as a teacher, Bishop's counselor, Stake Mission President and Boy Scout leader. He also served a 22 month mission in the LDS Employment Service, and an 18 month mission in the Family History Library in Davenport, Iowa. He has also served as Bishop of the LDS Kennewick Ward and 13 years as a stake high councilor, part of that time in Richland Stake and part in Kennewick Stake, and as an ordinance worker in both the Seattle and Columbia River LDS temples. His hobbies were gardening, hunting and fishing. At age 79 he participated in the 150th anniversary wagon train re-enactment of the 1847 Mormon Pioneer Trail, traveling the full 1100 miles of that trail by horse and wagon. He has been a president of Edison School P.T.A. and of Toastmasters International, Richland Chapter 4. He has spent close to 72 years registered as a scout and scout leader with the Boy Scouts of America. He received the Silver Beaver Award in 1978. He and his wife Betty are the parents of 7 children, 5 boys and 2 girls; they are: David Lyman Susan Rear Salt Lake City, UT; James Lyman Gail Allen Albuquerque, NM; Marie Carl Franklin Kennewick, WA; Jo Lyn Kevin Cornelsen Brush Prairie, WA; Eric Lyman Marilyn Munns Brigham City, UT; Lars Lyman Riki Jo Tuckett Fillmore, UT; Dan Lyman Tracy Russell Kennewick, WA. They have been blessed with 36 grandchildren and 52 great-grandchildren, with more on the way. A funeral service will be held at the LDS Chapel at 820 South Buntin Street, Kennewick, WA, on Saturday, February 25, at 3 p.m. Friends will be welcome to visit with the family beginning at 2 p.m. Burial to be in Millville, UT.