Maggie Marie Midgley

Maggie Marie Midgley was born June 16, 1992, in Salt Lake City to John Scott and Andrea Jo Midgley. She passed away June 5, 2025, at her home in Eureka, Utah, at the age of 32, just shy of her 33rd birthday. In 2022 she was diagnosed with an arterial venous malformation in her brain. It was lying on her motor cortex so when it was removed during surgery she became disable on her left side. She knew paralysis was a possibility yet she chose to have the surgery because she “didn’t want that alien thing in her head.”

Maggie was never discouraged despite her limitations. Over the last 3 years she worked hard with her physical and occupational therapists to become stronger and gain more mobility in her left arm and leg. She was always upbeat and always optimistic. When she walked into a room it would light up.

She attended schools in Salt Lake City at William Penn and Morningside Elementaries, Goshen Elementary, and graduated from Payson High School in 2010. She was a night watch caregiver for a boys home in Orem until her surgery. She loved the boys and cared greatly for their welfare. She also received training to be a veterinary technician. She loved animals and her ultimate dream was to be a marine biologist. She was always bugging her mom and dad to let her get just one more animal, be it cats, dogs, or goats, but she never got a goat. She did have several dogs and cats over the years. Her 12 year-old cat, Ashlynn, and her year-old kitten, ShadowHeart, were her latest animal loves, and they are certainly missing her. We are sure she immediately started searching for Tiger, Beatrice, Sidney, Tucker, Lucy, and Hosby when she was passing by the rainbow bridge on the way to her Dad and other loved ones who have gone on before.

She had a love for video games, some of her favorites were Cyberpunk 2077 and anything from the studio of Bethesda. She inherited her Dad’s love of science-fiction and creature movies. She enjoyed spending Sunday afternoons once a month playing online Dungeons & Dragons with her friends.

Maggie believed the best of everybody and never had a mean word to say about anyone. She always asked how everyone else was and never complained about her own ailments. Her Aunt Jane called her Maggie Mae, but she was the only one who could get away with it. To her Aunt Patti she was always “Mags.” When she was little someone called her Maggie Suester and when her sisters asked her name, she would proudly say, “My name is Maggie Toaster!”

Maggie was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She had a testimony of Jesus Christ and she received a certificate for attending three years of Seminary.

Maggie is survived by her mother, Andi Jo Midgley; her brothers Thomas, Andrew, and Jack (Stasha) Midgley; her sisters Jennifer (Carl) Vernon, Amanda (Jeremy) Dalton, and Rachel (Kevin) McArthur. She is also survived by her 14 nieces and nephews, 1 great niece and 2 great nephews; aunts, uncles and many cousins who all loved her. She was preceded in death by her dad, John Midgley, her nephew Isaiah Midgley, and her grandparents Jack and Marie Midgley and Bob and Betty Robinson.

Visitation will be held Wednesday, June 11, 2025, from noon to 1:00 p.m. at Brown Family Mortuary in Santaquin, Utah. A celebration of life will follow at 1:00 p.m. Her ashes will be interred with her father at a later date.