She was born to Norman and Margaret Forsberg, landing in the middle of 3 children. At birth, she was given the name Mary Lausanne Forsberg. Mary because both her grandmothers had the same name. Her father served a mission for the church of latter-day saints in Lausanne, Switzerland; He thought it was the most beautiful place and he wanted to name the most beautiful thing in his life after it, which was his first daughter.
Her older brother could never pronounce her name and it would come out as Zonnie, which quickly became her nickname and to this day most people know her as Zonnie. Zonnie grew up in Sugar House, Utah. Her first job was babysitting for usually less than 25 cents an hour. She went on to have a couple of other jobs in her life. She spent her teenage years attending many art classes at the Art Barn in Salt Lake and attended the University of Utah for a short time.
When she was 16 years old she went to Kansas to visit her brother in the army. While waiting in the car at a gas station, a man who was washing car windows noticed her, but she was unaware of him. Later she came to find out he was Welden Leon Daines, he was in the army with her brother, and after that day he made sure to ask her out when he got back to Utah.
They fell in love and ended up getting married on March 12th, when she was only 19 years old. She had her first child at 21, Scott, then went on to have 3 more boys, Allyn, Brent, and Richard. Her greatest accomplishment in her life so far is having and raising four boys, all of which have been successful in their careers. One was a lawyer, one is a CPA, and the other two run a structural steel business.
Her family is the most important thing in her life. Along with her 4 boys, she has 17 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and a few more on the way. She grew up in a family who loved to fish and married a man who also loved to fish, they passed down the hobby to their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
