{"product_id":"for-time-and-all-eternity-lee-roderick-9780996185028","title":"For Time and All Eternity: The Sterling and Ellie Colton Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eEleanor Ricks left her Idaho home and journeyed to Salt Lake City to enroll at the University of Utah. Entering the freshman girls' dorm, she got on the elevator from the front. At the same moment Nancy Colton entered the back of the elevator, with her brother Sterling, who carried her luggage. Both girls punched the third-floor button. When the elevator opened, Sterling dropped Nancy's suitcases and picked up Ellie's, carrying them to her room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I liked him right away!\" said Ellie. After a five-year courtship, Sterling and Ellie were married. \"Her mother sent her to the 'U' to find a husband,\" quipped Sterling. \"I was fortunate that she was not very picky and chose the first boy she met.\" Ellie said, \"He has been carrying my luggage ever since.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarely do two people complement each other so perfectly and are so completely in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSterling is serious and responsible. Ellie is full of fun and occasionally irreverent. Both are excellent leaders. Their life together has unfolded over seven delightful decades. They have raised four outstanding children--three boys and a girl--traveled the globe, assisted numerous needy individuals, and spearheaded a variety of good causes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSterling and Ellie were born and reared in the Rocky Mountain West. They remained there as a couple and family until 1966 when J.W. Marriott, Sr. recruited Sterling to Washington, D.C. to head his company's legal team. The Coltons began an adventure-filled new life in the nation's capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Marriott International's general counsel, Sterling became widely known among colleagues as the \"conscience\" of the company. J.W. (Bill) Marriott, Jr., who succeeded his father as company leader, called Sterling his best friend and relied on his legal judgment as Marriott grew from a relatively small enterprise into the world's largest hotel company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1990s, a tumultuous time for financial and construction industries, Marriott came perilously close to insolvency. It was saved by splitting the company into two companies. Sterling was credited with directing the split that saved Marriott. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt home the Coltons were a cohesive, all-American family--working side by side in their house and yard; volunteering community service; supporting their daughter's creative activities; cheering their sons' basketball and football teams. The Coltons skied; visited Disneyland; fished in Alaska; and soared over France's Loire Valley in a hot-air balloon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSterling bungee-jumped in New Zealand; Ellie rode a camel into the Egyptian desert withher \"Sheik.\" Together they sailed the Mediterranean on a romantic cruise ship, Sea Cloud; safaried in southern Africa; rode elephants in Thailand; and watched for birds from Canada to Antarctica. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Coltons adopted as their family motto: \"Choose you this day whom ye will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.\" (Joshua 24:15) All three sons served two-year missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and were married in an LDS temple. Sterling and Ellie presided over a variety of local Church organizations as well as a mission and a temple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndergirding everything is the love between Sterling and Ellie. This book is their story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Roderick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 099618502X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996185028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Probitas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Lee Roderick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799533957375,"sku":"9780996185028","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-time-and-all-eternity-lee-roderick-9780996185028","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}