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Local Obituaries for Families in Salt Lake County & Along the Wasatch Front
Mage Maximus Paur
Jun 19, 2018
There once was a boy that was so magical this world couldn’t contain him. That boy is our son, Mage Maximus Paur. He was in the womb, next to our heart for 6 and a half months. We could feel his ninja kicks, he loved playing hide and seek, and his smile brightened up every ultrasound. He joined us on...
S. Hal Kartchner
Jun 18, 2018
A valiant servant of our Heavenly Father, Silas Hal Kartchner, passed from this life to an eternal one on the evening of June 18, 2018 at the age of 95. He was born August 5, 1922 in Blanding, Utah to Silas Decatur and Elizabeth Hurst Kartchner. Hal spent his young years in Blanding with his two siblings near a large...
Kiteau Maumi
Jun 18, 2018
Age: 76Died on June 18th, 2018 in West Jordan, UT. Born on April 2nd, 1942 in Vaini, Tonga.He was married to Lavinia Longo Fetu’u.He was a man of many talents & traits. He loved his music and guitar and LOVED to play for his wife, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and family on his spare time or any chance he had! He...
Linda Kay Teeples Hale
Jun 17, 2018
Born August 29, 1943 in Salt Lake City Utah married her soul mate Stephen Lynn Hale August 16, 1962. Linda passed away peacefully at her home in Farmington New Mexico surrounded by her family June 17, 2018 after a brief battle with cancer.She is preceded in death by parents Don and Hazel Teeples, brother Ronny and sister Sharron. Survived by...
Robert M. Stam, Jr
Jun 17, 2018
Our father’s final wish was granted and he has been reunited with the love of his life. Robert M. Stam, Jr., our beloved father passed away on June 17, 2018 of natural causes. He was born April 23, 1941 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Robert and Rose May Kendrick. Robert served in the United States Army and is a...
Stasia Scharman
Jun 17, 2018
On June 17, 2018 Stasia peacefully went to be with her Heavenly Father. Stasia Patricia Janene Scharman was born on January 8th, 2014 to Curtis and Aubrey Scharman. She was born with a Congenital Heart Defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). This is when our Heart Warrior Princess would start down the path to many surgeries and ultimately...
Shelley Solum Purrington
Jun 15, 2018
Shelley departed this earthly existence on the morning of June 15, 2018 at the age of 65, surrounded by loving family members at her side. Shelley had valiantly battled multiple serious medical conditions for several years. She was born on September 14, 1952 to Ruby June Johnson and John Russell Solum in Montpelier, Idaho. She married David L. Purrington on...
Delene Ann Gilbert (Dee)
Jun 14, 2018
Dee was born September 19th, 1962 in Ogden Utah, to June Marsh & Lawrence Searle.She passed away on June 14th, 2018 in Las Vegas Nevada after her long battle with breast cancer, she had been in remission when it aggressively migrated to Metastatic Breast Cancer. She was only 55 years old.Dee had the biggest heart in the world, there is...
Eva Maria Rosplesch Hegewald
Jun 14, 2018
Eva Maria Rosplesch Hegewald was born on April 5, 1937, in Berlin, Germany. After a 5th bout with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, she passed peacefully to our Father in Heaven’s presence on June 14, 2018, in her beloved home in Holladay, Utah. She was 81 years old.Eva grew up in Bernburg, Germany, and graduated from high school in Halle/Saale, East...
Jerry R. Gale
Jun 14, 2018
Jerry R. Gale was born on February 10, 1991. He passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 14, 2018 surrounded by his family. He was born with love of life. He was happy and always wanted to help others. He never let life get him down! He loved to make people laugh and making sure everyone around him was happy. He...
Jeanie Nyuk Len Mahelona Smith
Jun 13, 2018
Jeanie Nyuk Len Mahelona Smith, age 85, passed away peacefully on June 13 2018, and returned to her loving husband George Ronald Smith. She was surrounded by family at her passing.She was born September 6, 1932 in Kahului, Hawaii to loving parents Daniel Napela Mahelona, and Violet K.Y. Pung. Her father was a foreman for a sugar cane factory and...
Nielsen, Michelle
Jun 13, 2018
Michelle Forgie NielsenDecember 4, 1947 – June 13, 2018Our loving mother and grandmother returned to our Father in Heaven on June 13, 2018 where she joyfully reunited with her husband, Steven Dale Nielsen, and parents Lowell and Melba Forgie. We will miss her dearly. Michelle was born and raised in Sandy, UT and stayed in the very same place to...
Beth Mears
Jun 13, 2018
Beth Jean Thompson Mears1924 – 2018Beth returned to her Heavenly Home on June 13, 2018, one week before her 94th birthday. She was born on June 20, 1924 to William Otto Thompson and Margaret Alice Pilkington in Smithfield, UT. Following a short courtship, she married Wallace Deane Mears on January 10, 1945 while he was on leave from the Navy...
Colleen Jannette Carlsen
Jun 13, 2018
Colleen Jannette Carlsen, 82, died on June 13, 2018 in West Jordan, Utah of age related causes in the home where she spent the last 6 months of her life surrounded with love, laughter, and happiness.She was born January 5, 1936 in Murray, Utah.Colleen was a light to everyone who knew her and everyone she met. She had the brightest...
Homer C. Chandler
Jun 12, 2018
Homer Call Chandler was born February 12, 1925 in a small Idaho farming town called Samaria. His parents were William James Chandler and Mary Nancy Call. He grew up in Samaria, Preston, Idaho Falls and Pocatello, Idaho as the 9th of 12 kids. During the Great Depression he and all of his siblings had to work to help his parents...
Uriah Vern Curtis
Jun 12, 2018
Uriah Vern Curtis died on June 12, 2018 in Murray, Utah at the age of 85. He was born on November 5, 1932 in Orangeville, Utah to John Soloman and Mary Jane Allred Curtis. On May 21, 1960 he married Sharon H. Curtis. They spent 53 years together until she preceded him in death in 2013.Uriah served honorably in the...
Darlene Putnam Torgerson
Jun 11, 2018
On June 11, 2018 the matriarch of our family returned to her Heavenly Father. She was reunited with her loving husband Mark, beloved son Wayne, and many others who have gone on before. Darlene was born in Auburn, WY to Charles Putnam and Golda Walton. She married the love of her life Edward Mark Torgerson February 14, 1957. They had...
Dean Wright
Jun 11, 2018
1934 – 2018Dean died June 11, 2018 at age 84. A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he served a mission to Brazil, and was sealed to Joan Burnham in the Salt Lake Temple. Loving father of Jodean, Amy (Greg), and Claris; proud grandfather of Josie, Daniel (Shannon) and Will. Dean had a strong testimony...
Kenneth Earl Kennedy
Jun 10, 2018
Kenneth Earl Kennedy a.k.a. “Pops”, passed away June 10, 2018 at the age of 83. Born Nov 16, 1934 in Rosebud, South Dakota to Susan Amelia Emery Kennedy and William Jefferson Kennedy. He married Virginia Rose Townsend (who preceded him in death), they lived a happy life for 43 yrs. together and with that union four beautiful girls were born....
Vallerie Ann Whiteman Moulton
Jun 9, 2018
Our loving wife and mother, Vallerie Ann Whiteman Moulton, passed away on Saturday June 9, 2018 due to Parkinson’s with her loving family at her side. Vallerie was born May 31, 1939 to Alfred “Bert” and Marian Whiteman. She graduated from Granite High in 1957. Vallerie married the love of her life Ronald Moulton in 1958. They just celebrated their...
