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Local Obituaries for Families in Salt Lake County & Along the Wasatch Front
Barbara Parker Woolsey Mitchell
Dec 23, 2018
Barbara Parker Woolsey Mitchell, born in Bennion, Utah on January 27, 1931 died on December 23, 2018 in Sandy, Utah.In memory of our loving Mother and Grandmother.Our Mother was one of the most loving, kind, generous people you could meet.Barbara loved to cook, camp and fish, and even though she could not hold a tune she also loved to sing....
Wanda Rae Rufener
Dec 23, 2018
Beloved mother, wife, friend and mentor passed away peacefully on December 23, 2018.Wanda was born on November 11, 1926 in Salt Lake City and married Bud Rufener on June 15, 1963. Wanda was passionate about her family and cherished spending time with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Bud and Wanda enjoyed travelling with their family on golfing and boating...
Maxine Kendall Averett
Dec 22, 2018
Together AgainMaxine Averett, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away early on December 22, 2018. She was born on December 27, 1927 in Nephi, Utah to Harry and Launa Kendall. She was the youngest of three daughters. She attended South High School. Maxine married Clyde M Averett on March 15, 1945 while Clyde was on a weekend leave while...
Maryln Rae Farnes Rose
Dec 22, 2018
Maryln Rae Farnes Rose, born 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah, passed away peacefully on December 22, 2018 with her family by her side.Maryln was born to Harold and Catherine Farnes on February 18, 1936 (deceased December 25, 1964), and her sister Cathy Larsen, and brother Roy (deceased June 7, 1997).She married her sweetheart Dorvin D. Rose, and their marriage...
Elmo Gene Ollerton
Dec 22, 2018
Elmo Gene Ollerton, 84, of West Valley passed away on December 22, 2018. He was born on February 13, 1934 in Springville, Utah to Elmo C. Ollerton and Alta Denison. Gene was married to Anna Lorene Syme Ollerton. Gene loved fishing, camping and hunting, along with woodwork and upholstering. He is survived by his daughters Anna (George) Colledge and Elaine...
Cynthia Browning
Dec 22, 2018
After a four-year battle with metastatic breast cancer, Cynthia Lee Walker Browning passed away surrounded by her family in Layton, Utah on December 22, 2018. Cynthia was born November 10, 1975 to Ronald Bruce Walker and Carole Bennett Walker.Through her teen years she lived in Okinawa, Japan where she grew to love the beach. She graduated from LDS Business College...
Betty Rae Mccarrel Lemmon
Dec 21, 2018
Betty Rae McCarrel Lemmon age 88 of Riverton, Utah. Passed away, Friday, December 21, 2018.Born March 20, 1930 in Salt Lake City, Utah the daughter of Clifford G. and Anna F. Ludwig, McCarrel. She married Donald Lemmon in October 1967 he preceded her in death June 15, 1996.Betty retired from Cream O’ Weber Dairy in 1995, was a volunteer for...
Daniel Lewis Topham, Dds
Dec 20, 2018
Daniel Lewis Topham, DDS, our marvelous son, brother, uncle, and friend, died in his sleep at his home in Holladay on the morning of December 20, 2018, of long-standing complications from a yellow-jacket sting on 7/31/1997. The sting caused a severe allergic reaction that resulted in an anoxic brain injury with inexorable deterioration in spite of great efforts by his...
Larry Wayne Bales
Dec 20, 2018
Our wonderful & sweet husband, father, brother, grandfather & great grandfather passed away December 20, 2018 with his loving wife & daughter at his side. Born October 5, 1939 in Richmond, Indiana to Layton F & Thelma F. (Dunaway) Bales. He grew up on the beaches of Southern California and later moved to Fortuna, California where he had a close...
Galina (Babulya) Victorovna Konovalenko (Khokholkina)
Dec 20, 2018
Our beloved mother and grandmother Galina (Babulya) Victorovna Konovalenko (Khokholkina) passed away suddenly on December 20, 2018 in Murray, Utah at the young age of 68 from complications of recently diagnosed metastatic endometrial cancer.She was born on February 13, 1950 in Ulyanovsk, Russia to Anna Afanasevna Khokholkina and Victor Petrovich Khokholkin. She was the youngest child of 3, an only...
Lorna Jane Thacker Merkley Smith
Dec 20, 2018
Following a fall on December 19, 2018, our sweet mother returned to join her loved ones in heaven. Lorna Jane, was a master homemaker. She once wrote “My being at home gave me time to do my thing in cooking and baking. I love to do that and I love to share with others.” We all grew up nurtured by...
Nellie Campos
Dec 19, 2018
To our beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Aunt and Friend, who left us on the beautiful day of December 19, 2018. She left to join all those who left before her. She was born March 5, 1938 to Jose O’Cana and Josephina Aragon in Center, Colorado. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great-grandchildren. She will be loved...
Donald Arthur Lee
Dec 19, 2018
Donald Arthur Lee“Big Don Lee from SLC”Our sweet, wonderful father and grandfather passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2018. He was born to loving parents Arthur and Elma Lee on July 9, 1931. He grew up in Salt Lake City with his parents and brothers Fred and Jerry Lee. He graduated from Granite High School, and married the love of his...
Bruce D. Whitehead
Dec 18, 2018
Bruce Davis Whitehead Jr., age 89, passed away December 18, 2018 in his Cottonwood Heights home. He was born May 14, 1929 to Bruce Sr. and W. Bernice Fuller Whitehead in his mother’s hometown of Statesville, North Carolina.In September 1951, he began a six-month US Army basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He was assigned to Occupation Forces on Salzburg,...
Mark Hanford Riddle
Dec 18, 2018
Mark Hanford Riddle, age 56, passed away at Jordan Valley Hospital in West Valley city, surrounded by his children and wife on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. He was born on November 29, 1962, in Richfield, Utah to Milton Hanford and Margaret (Morrey) Gadd. Mark was a retired Air Force Master Sergeant who served his country for 21 years as a...
Theone “Nonie” Syme Jorgensen
Dec 17, 2018
Our dear mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great, great grandmother and dearly loved aunt Nonie passed away on December 17, 2018. She died at home surrounded by her loving family.Nonie was born on July 20, 1927 to Alden B. Syme and Gladys Marie Jackson.On November 26, 1947 she married her sweetheart Morris Jorgensen.She loved life, had a vibrant and sassy personality....
Abigail Lea Hickenlooper
Dec 17, 2018
Abigail Lea Hickenlooper was born December 17th, 2018 at 4:09 am and passed away just a little over an hour later at 5:13 am at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray Utah. Abigail is the daughter of Devin & Tara Hickenlooper (Sorensen) and sister to Connor. Although her life here on earth was short, she will always be remembered for...
Ann Roos Demers
Dec 17, 2018
Ann Roos Demers died of natural causes Monday, December 17, 2018 surrounded by her family. Ann was born in 1928 in Arnhem, Netherlands, the daughter of Johanna Van Wessel and Gradus Van Wessel. In 1954, she became the first of her family to emigrate to the United States, establishing a life in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was followed...
Gordon Peery Austin Jr
Dec 17, 2018
Gordon Peery Austin Jr, age 76, passed away on December 17, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born September 14, 1942 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Gordon Peery Sr and Marion Shurtliff Austin. He was married to Carol M. Pankow on August 25, 1966 in the Salt Lake Temple.Peery grew up in Sugarhouse where he attended school...
Jose Mateo Valdez
Dec 17, 2018
Jose Mateo Valdez, age 85, passed away peacefully on Monday, December 17, 2018.He was born on September 4, 1933, in Rio Arriba, New Mexico to Rosenaldo and Jaunita Valdez. Joe resided in Salt Lake City, Utah and worked in facilities maintenance at the University of Utah. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed life‘s simple pleasures such as horseback riding, camping,...
