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09/27/2018 - Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Born in the "beautiful Gernika", as she liked to call her native town in the Basque Country, Madalena emigrated to the United States, to Utah, where she and her husband Jaime Sangroniz formed a strong and united family. Madalena and James had strongs feelings about the maintenance and preservation of their mother language and culture and their were able to transmite them into their children and grandchildren, beeing pillars of the Utah Basque Club and its dance group, Utah'ko Triskalariak.

Jaime passed away last year and now Madalena left us. The Basques are missing a very beloved couple, instrumental for their community in Utah and the US for the the last sixty years.

From these lines we want to send a big hug and our sincere condolences to her children Leon (Katherine Dennett), Pilar (Jay Shortsleeve), James (Cathy Doherty) and Cristina (Curtis Padjen); to her grandchildren Cirbie (Amanda), Antonia, Patxi, Andoni, Mikel and Amaia; and to other relatives and countless friends all over the US and the Basque Country.

GB

This is the Obituary published on October 3rd, 2018 in Salt Lake Tribune, Legacy.com:

Magdalena Zatika Sangroniz
1925 ~ 2018

Born January 25, 1925 in Gernika, Bizcaya, Spain the 3rd of 5 children of Manual Zatika and Antonia St. Ines. She died September 27, 2018.

Survived by her sister Doloress Zatika, four children: Leon (Katherine Dennett), Pilar (Jay Shortsleeve), James (Cathy Doherty) and Cristina (Curtis Padjen) and 6 grandchildren, Cirbie (Amanda), Antonia, Patxi, Andoni, Mikel and Amaia.

At age 12, she survived the German bombing and destruction of her home in the ancient Basque capital of Guernica during the Spanish Civil war that ominously foreshadowed the beginnings of WWII.

She was training as a chef at the Kataro Restaurant. Later she was recruited by the town doctors to study nursing and gained a reputation as the most caring nurse.

At age 28 she said yes to and married her childhood friend and life-long companion Jamie Sangroniz. He would take her far from home, to the United States, where they settled in Bingham Canyon, Utah to begin their lives together. There they made strong connections with other Basques families in the area. They later moved to Midvale City. Together they raised their four children in a warm and welcoming house that her husband built but that she made into a home. When her children matured she resumed caring for others as an LPN in several valley nursing homes. The home was her domain, especially the kitchen. She loved cooking for everyone and sharing her recipes. 

Magdalena was a founding member of the Basque Club of Utah and organized the Basque Choir for the annual picnic. At the age of 93 she quietly passed surrounded by her family.

The family would like to thank Angela, Joanie, Ed, and the Home Health team at Signature Home Health for their care and compassion. 

Funeral Mass will be Friday, October 5, at 11 a.m. at St. Therese Catholic Church, 624 W. Lennox St., Midvale. Holy Rosary will be recited Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Goff Mortuary, 8090 S. State St., Midvale with visitation from 6-7:30 p.m. Interment, Larkin Sunset Gardens.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Patient Access Network Foundation, the Luekemia & Lymphoma Society or The Basque Club of Utah. www.goffmortuary.com