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1851	Obituary: Stella Vee Stott Johnson, 83, passed away Thursday, February 16, 2006 , i n Fillmore, Utah. She was born November 8, 1922, in Delta, Utah, to J . Le o and Velma Bushnell Stott. She married Chester Rogers Johnson Jul y 17, 1 940, in Meadow, Utah. Mother was a wonderful cook and homemaker . She wa s well known for her hand dipped chocolates "Stella's Sweets". S he took d elight in climbing apple trees and bottling fruit. She had a gr eat sens e of humor, she loved her family very much. She enjoyed reading , workin g in her garden and tending roses. She is survived by her children: Jerri (Garth) Frehner, of New Harmony , P amiel (Bill) Reed, Gig Harbor, WA, Diane (Jim) Buckwalter, Salt Lak e City , Ginger (Michael) Agee, Helena, MT, Ken (Shauna) Johnson, Alamo , NV, Jef f (Stacy) Johnson, Holden, and Penni Sumsion, Draper; 30 grandc hildren an d 49 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her siblings : Leola Geo rge, Orem, UT, Joe Stott, Meadow, UT, Donna Mae Warner, Wes t Valley, UT a nd Reah Knell Rowley, Boise, ID. She is preceded in death by her parents, sister, Nadine Day and brothe r , Leo Ben Stott. Funeral services will be held Monday, February 20, 2006, at 11:00 a.m . a t the Holden Ward Chapel with a visitation one hour prior to services . In terment will be at the Holden Cemetery. Arrangements are made unde r the d irection of Olpin Southern Utah Mortuary. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to IHC Home Care Services Mill a rd County. We would like to thank Susan Limburg and the staff at IHC ho m e care services for their loving compassion in taking care of our mothe r. Stella Vee Stott Johnson 1922 - 2006 Autobiography written in 1983 at age 61 I was born November 8, 1922, in Delta, Utah. I was the third child of Jo s eph Leo and Velma Bushnell Stott. Dad and Mother were living in Delt a a t the time, as Dad was teaching school there. They lived there fo r a fe w years and then moved to Meadow. Dad was a stocky-built fellow, s trictl y business and quite strict. He was the bishop of the Meadow War d for 1 0 years. Mother was a very hard worker. Mom and Dad had seven children in all, a n d there was never time for any foolishness around home. We always ha d a l ot of hired men who helped do the farm work, and they always ate di nner a t our home at none. So just as soon as we’d get breakfast over wit h, we’ d have to start to fix dinner for them. And it was nothing to se t the tab le for around 15 people every day - which kept us all really bu sy helpin g out. Mother’s parents at one time owned a hotel there on Main Street in Meado w . There were bedrooms off to the south and to the north. When the hote l q uit, it was just sort of a strange arrangement for a family home. I t wa s never changed that I know of. Everyone used to come there to the h otel . They used to have traveling dentists (didn’t have a local dentist) . An d this old Dr. Conklin was a dentist and he’d come there once a yea r an d people would come and get their teeth fixed. I remember my Grandpa Bushnell just vaguely. He had a stroke when I wa s v ery small and I remember his death at the home. Grandma Bushnell wa s crip pled up with arthritis for years and years. I used to go sleep wit h her a t night. I can just picture her now hobbling down to our house. H er fee t were so crippled up and out of shape she could never wear shoes . She ha d house-shoes that she wore. Btu she was quite a lady. She was m ore or le ss the town doctor. Everyone who had a broken arm or any troubl e with the ir health would always come to Grandma Bushnell. I remember sh e used to s et people’s broken arms. She’d just get a couple of sticks an d she knew j ust how to twist it to get it just where it belonged. She ne ver had an ar m that she set that grew out crooked. It was just a matte r of someone ha d to do it, so she did it. And she had great success. Sh e wasn’t a midwif e, there was another lady in town who did that. But Gra ndma made her ow n salves and her canker medicine. That’s where “Grandm a Salve” came from . And that “Grandma Salve” was really something. As I was growing up, it seemed like I was always on a horse. In fact, D a d had a horse he named Stella. I often wondered who came first, me or t h e horse. My main duties then were taking care of the two children who w er e younger than me which were Joe and Donna. I had four sisters: ther e wer e Nadine, Leola, Donna and Reah. I had two brothers: Joe and Ben. T hey ar e all married now and scattered places with their own families, s o I don’ t see them very much. We learned at an early age to accept responsibility and how to cook an d d o the things that had to be done around home. We had a nice home - on e o f the nicest homes in Meadow, or even in the county. Mother always to ok g reat pride in fixing it up and having it looking nice - both the yar ds an d the home. It seemed like we were always painting and fixing up so methin g. I really enjoyed going to school. It was always fun to have a new dres s f or the first day of school and going back and seeing all the kids th a t I hadn’t seen much all summer. Everyone kind of went their separate w ay s and we didn’t get together a whole lot. But I really quite enjoyed s cho ol. I liked my teachers and got along very well with them. We went t o sc hool through the 8th grade there in Meadow and then 9th graders al l wen t to Fillmore to High School. We used to all play marbles at school. Everyone envied the person who h a d the biggest bag of marbles - we’d play for keeps. And we’d dig hole s ar ound kind of like a baseball field, only there were holes you had t o shoo t that marble into. I don’t think kids even play marbles anymore . The gir ls played as well as the boys and it was really fun. We’d sta y after scho ol sometimes to play marbles when we should have been home. I had some very close friends all through school. I didn’t ever want f o r friends. One in particular was Ina Hainsworth who was a good frien d o f mine, and then also June Harding. I guess you would call them my ve ry b est friends. We were all just a group and every Sunday afternoon we’ d al l get together in a big crowd. And we all looked forward to Sunday b ecaus e that’s when we all got a Sunday nickel. We never got any spendin g money . Of course, money was really hard to come by then. You could bu y a loa f to bread for 5 or 10 cents. So when we’d get a nickel on Sunday , we tho ught that was really great. The only time we were ever given an y money wa s on Sundays, or the 5th and the 24th of July. Usually on th e 4th and 24t h we were given 50 cents and we thought we were wealthy. An yway, we’d al l get together as a group and go spend our Sunday nickels. Another thing that we did as little kids for spending money - the stor e s would take eggs as cash - so sometimes we’d gather the eggs when the y s houldn’t have been gathered and go buy a nickel’s worth of candy fo r thre e eggs. Everyone was always going to the store with a few eggs t o spend. Oh, the 4th of July celebrations were fun! Everyone would come up on t h e church lawn, and they’d get there about ten o’clock in the morning a n d they’d have a program and they’d have benches out on the lawn. Then t he y’d have sports and eats and we just didn’t go for an hour - it was th e w hole day. There were relatives from out of town who would come to vis it t he townspeople. We just had kind of a little reunion right there o n tha t church lawn every 4th and 24th of July. It was really a special t hing ; you took your children and stayed all day long. It took us all da y to s pend our 50 cents. Mother always did a lot of canning. And we all helped with the bottles a n d help do it. She’d do 5-6 bushels of peaches. And we didn’t have freez er s then, so she canned a lot of meat. All of our meat was canned [or fr esh ]. In fact, you could go down to Mother’s fruit room at any time an d pu t out a pretty nice, full-course meal just of the basement. Mother used to make her own soap. Dad always killed his own animals an d M other would save all of the fat and render it down. She had a room i n th e basement she’d put all this in during the year, and then in the sp ring , there would be soap-making day. She would make enough soap to las t fo r a year. She’d take about 3-4 black tubs and go out in the back yar d an d make a fire under them and make soap. She’d sit there all day lon g o n a little stool. It was kind of a nice little social gathering, as p eopl e would usually stop by and visit with her while she tended that soa p. I t would take all day long to cook it. When it was done, she’d let i t si t overnight and then the next morning it would just be a piece of so ap th e size of a big tub. Then she would dump it out on some boards an d cut i t while it was still soft. And then when she’d get ready to wash , she’d c ut that up and melt it down on the stove with a little water. W e used tha t soap for everything - for washing dishes and clothes. Ther e wasn’t anyt hing as nice as the detergents we have now that dissolves t he grease. Whe n we’d wash the dishes there would just be a rim off greas e about an inc h thick around the edge of the dishpan. And we couldn’t d4 rain our dished , we had to dry every dish because they wouldn’t drain of f like it does w ith a nice detergent. So our work was really work. It se emed like there w as always dishes to be washed with that many people. Th ere really was! But I think of my mother, and I can’t picture her any place but in the k i tchen. Dad had a herd of sheep and she’d have to fix the grub boxes fo r t he sheepherders. And there was always one that they’d send back tha t the y wouldn’t wash the bottles all winter, and we’d have those to was h and i t was really a trick to clean up the sheepherders grub boxes. Mother did a lot of sewing. She made all of our clothes. She didn’t;ha v e time to make quilts then, but she seemed to find the time to do wha t ha d to be done. If some of the neighbors would come and she liked th e look s of that dress, she’d lay the dress on a newspaper and cut out pa tterns . She made some very nice clothes and it was really a lot of wor k for he r to keep the family dressed. We had very few store-bought cloth es. Altho ugh Dad was as well off or better than anyone else in town, w e all just h ad to really economize and make do with what we had. So we w ere taught a t an early age to really watch our money, and not be wastefu l. When I was about 6-7 years old, I took violin lessons. I had a violin th a t was about a third the size of a regular violin. It was so cute: I wi s h I had it now. It was just in a tiny little case. I took violin lesso n s from a Mr. Hilgandorf. I remember I went to Delta one time to pla y i n a recital. I played “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. It was a lot o f fun . (I remembered we stopped in Holden to pick someone up and take th em t o delta to that recital. Years later, I learned it was Gwen Johnso n tha t we took to delta with us for the recital.) People would stop me o n th e streets and want me to open up that case and show them my tiny lit tle v iolin. Also took piano lessons from Earl Stott. It was quite hard t o si t down and practice - there was always so much going on around home . Bu t I learned the basic points in violin and also the piano. Later, Mo the r traded in my small violin for a regular size one and I took violi n less ons most of my high school days. I played the violin in the high s chool o rchestra. I really liked music. I have always enjoyed good music . I’m jus t sorry that I didn’t learn how to play better than I did. When we were little, it seemed like in the spring of the year there we r e traveling men going through. They laugh about the medicine man that c am e through with the calico cart once a year, but it was actually a fact . W e had this one little guy who would pull up to the front door about e ver y spring. Mother would save all of her pots and pans that would hav e litt le holes in them. And this old fellow (I thing he had a team of ho rses th at pulled his little wagon), he’d come -and they all called him “ the tink er man”, anyway, he’d come and Mother would give him all the pot s and pan s and he would solder them up for her. There was an Indian reservation in the foothills to the east, between Me a dow and Kanosh. The Indians didn’t mix with the whites like they do no w , they just stayed off to themselves. Dad hired some of them to work f o r him, so we had a little more association with them than anyone else . Bu t every spring and every fall the Indian women would come around wit h bi g sacks and beg for flour or whatever you wanted to give them. The I ndia n women never came to town or were around except for these two time s whe n they came begging. I don’t think the government - well, I know th ey wer en’t taking care of them like they do not. I used to help Dad on the farm a lot. The older girls would drive the te a m. We hauled hay different then. They would drive the team and haul th e h ay and I was always perched on the derrick horse. They had this big c ontr aption that would come down with a big fork and load up with hay an d the n take it up to the top of the stack and dump it. It seemed lik e I grew u p on that darn derrick horse. Dad had a farm over to Delta an d we’d hav e to go over there and do up the first and second crop hay. An d I was alw ays elected to go over there. I would take about two weeks t o get I all d one. I always went with Dad and his crew of men to ride th e derrick horse . Oh, that was a hot and nasty job! My Grandmother Stott (Sarah Ellen Bennett Stott) was a super lady! She w a s very religious and was really a fine person. About the time I was hi g h school, she moved into a little house next to ours and she was so cut e , we all just loved her. She’d always stop us to see if our shoes wer e sh ined. If I’d ever go past her place she’d come out to see if I’d pra ctice d the piano yet. (I used to walk around the block the other directi on s o I wouldn’t have to pass her.) But she really was a sweet lady. W e all c alled her “Grandma Great”. She lived to be 88 years old. I rememb er whe n Chester and I went through the temple, she brought me over a dou ble wed ding ring quilt and she said, “Now I’ll give you a wedding presen t; I fee l like you’re really married now.” She was just a cute lady! Dad and Uncle Cleon were partners in the farm and the business, so the t o wn families were just kind of like one great big family. They had a he r d of cows that we’d have to milk all the time. There were around 13 cow s . We’d get in that little milk wagon and go to the field and mild ever y m orning and then go back again at night and milk. I remember it was no thin g to cart those old great big 10 gallon cans around. We’d have abou t 4 o r 5 10 gallon cans of mild every day, and then they’d separate it u p to U ncle Cleons. Then once a week they’d take the cream up to the trai n stati on west of Fillmore. And people didn’t go to Fillmore like they d o now da ys - it was just really an occasion to get to go to Fillmore. We ’d all ju st look forward to going to Fillmore to take that cream up an d do a littl e shopping. But that was about the only time anyone around t here went t o Fillmore. Maybe we’d go to a show once a month as a famil y group. The two families got along remarkably well for having everything in ju s t one big pot. There was one car between the two families and when we a l l got so we could drive, it was really in demand. But it seemed to wor k o ut pretty well. It would be parked up to Uncle Cleons for one week an d th en back down to our place for a week. But there was never any proble ms ov er it. We just understood that was the way it was to be, and that w as tha t. But later on when the kids all got older, I was married at th e time, t hey split up the partnership. But we had one of the nicest farm s and setu ps of anyone around. It was a lot of hard work, but it paid of f. When I was 8 years old, I was baptized in a little natural warm spring ’ s pond down west of Meadow (about 4-5 miles west). They had to save u p th e baptisms for about a year - when it was summer - and then we’d al l go d own there and be baptized. It was quite an inspirational sight t o see eve ryone in white down there to that little pond out in the wilder ness for t he baptisms. In fact, warm springs was another recreation tha t we had. W e had to make our own fun and maybe about once a week or so w e’d get toge ther as a group and take some sandwiches or what have you an d go down the re at night and swim. The water was really warm, but boy wh en you’d get o ut you’d nearly freeze to death. We’d be so hungry, we’d m ake a fire an d roast weenies or something. And the ward would get togeth er with a bi g wagon with hay on it and a team of horses and many a tim e we went a s a group, the whole town, down there at night to go swimming . But no on e had big trucks. You couldn’t even consider going down i n a big truck li ke they would now days. We’d sing coming home and it wa s just really fun . There was only one drowning there that I know of an d it was a cripple d man who went swimming there alone one afternoon. The y thought maybe he’ d had a heart attack. Everyone knew how to swim. We j ust more or less gre w up with that swimming hole. I think they’ve ruine d it now. Someone thou ght they’d improve on it and blasted the edges an d it isn’t nearly as nic e because the cows can walk down there by it . A lot of people said it was n’t pure water to swim in. I guess the natu ral minerals that were in it k ept it purified, because this uncle of min e who sent a sample of it in t o the state at one time said it was all ri ght. It was clean. I don’t thin k anyone goes down there anymore. And even Easter was just really special. We’d all just pray for weeks ah e ad that it would be good weather on Easter. We’d go down to the White M ou ntains - the whole county would go down there. And it was so fun. Th e lit tle sand hills were white sand and we’d just take our Easter eggs a nd ou r lunches and our baseballs and spend the whole day down there. I t was ju st really special to go to the White Mountains on Easter. My family was a very healthy family. There was no sickness. We never we n t to the dentist unless we had a toothache. No one went as a preventati v e measure then. We went to Fillmore to a Dr. Brunson if we had a tootha ch e, and that was the only time we ever went to the dentist. Many a toot hac he I used to have, too, until I could get there. It was just realty h ar d to keep those bills all paid up at that time. There were just three streets that went east and west in Meadow. And t h e first time I had a date with Chester, he said, “Well, where fo you li ve ?” And I said, “Well, you go west on middle street.” He thought that w a s so funny. But that was the way we always referred to it. There wa s a so uth street, north street, and middle street. I lived on middle str eet. I remember one time there was a circus in Salt Lake so Uncle Cleon fix e d up his big truck and put benches in it and took everyone in town wh o wa nted to go up to the circus. And that was the only time I ever remem ber s taying in a motel before I was married. But we didn’t eat out - I c an jus t see those baloney sandwiches to this day. Mother packed a littl e box wi th bread and baloney and it was so much fun. We always had one o f the bes t looking cars in town. We’d get a new one regularly and that w as alway s a thrilling experience to get a new car. Dad was very dedicated to his church and to his job as bishop. It was al w ays just really a thrill to sit there in church and see my dad taking c ha rge of the meetings. I sat there with a lot of pride. And we went to c hur ch - that was all there was to it. Well, you just didn’t consider any thin g else. Sunday morning came and you were up and in your Sunday cloth es an d went as a family to church. And then they always had a Sunday nig ht mee ting - that was our Sacrament meeting. There was just no other wa y of lif e but to go. There was this boy who wasn’t really too choice (he wasn’t too smart eit h er) but I guess he kind of liked me. But he’d come down and offer to mi l k my cows on Sunday night if I’d let him walk me home after church. Th a t was when we all did our courting. Anyway, this kid would come down a n d milk my cows, and then after church I’d run away from him. (That w a s a stinking thing to do!) (We won’t tell about the little girl who wou l d give me her Sunday nickel if I’d play with her on Sunday - and I didn ’ t do that either. Wasn’t that terrible!) But that was about when we’d pair off when we started noticing the oppos i te sex. I know if I could get Stewart Bennett to walk me home after chu rc h, boy! I was in Seventh Heaven! Oh, that was just so super! He was re all y the Clark Gable of the day. He was a handsome boy! (That was when w e we re all coming out of our little shells.) “Who walked you home from c hurc h last night?” You know. So it was always kind of fun. When Mother would have her babies, they would be born right there in h e r bed room. And this midwife would come and oh, it was really exciting ! I n fact, I had Jerri and Pam right in that same bedroom. We had to pho ne D r. Evans, but there was a midwife there and then Dr. Evans came dow n abou t the time he thought he should. Those were the happiest moments o f my li fe when I’d have that newborn baby place in my arms. There just i sn’t any thing else like it. To this day, when I see those women wheele d out of th e delivery room with that brand new baby, I'm so envious of t hem. I kno w just how they’re feeling. When I got in high school, there was always a boy that I kind of notic e d more than the others. I was freshman class president, and kept prett y b usy with my studies, but I always had a date for everything that cam e alo ng. It wasn’t until I was a sophomore that I noticed Chester. He wa s jus t coming out of one of the classrooms. Later he asked me for a date , so w e went to a dance together. I really didn’t particularly care fo r him t o begin with. He just seemed to be one of the popular boys in sch ool. Bu t it didn’t take long until I knew I was very much in love with h im. An d we started going together quite steady when I was a Junior. An d then h e went to Logan to college. I so looked forward to the holiday s when he’ d be coming home. We corresponded quite regularly. When I was about 10 or 12 years old, it seemed that I was always being a s ked to sing a solo in church. Eva Beckstrand always accompan8ied me. I ’ d practice all week, and it was really fun to be a part of things. An d th en when I got in High School, I was asked to sing a solo in a lot o f th e programs. My talents were developed pretty well with the violin an d th e piano and my singing, which I truly enjoyed. Being as my father was the bishop, every person that would come throug h t own who needed a meal, hitch-hikers or whatever, they always came t o ou r place. A lot of fellows were just going through hitch-hiking. Of c ourse , I think the hitch-hikers in those days were a better caliber tha n the y are now. They were hitch-hiking because they didn’t have the mone y to g et where they wanted to go. And they’d always come and Dad would g ive the m a meal and a few days work to help them get on their feet and t hen the y would go on. We had a lot of strange people staying in that bas ement be droom. You weren’t afraid to pick up a hitch-hiker then becaus e you kne w it was just someone who was down and out. In fact, Dad had an old guy stop who was hitch-hiking whose name was Sho r ty McGowan. His name was really Charles McGowan, but we always called h i m Shorty. He stayed for years and years. He was an expert mechanic. H e re minded me of Popeye. He only had one eye. But he lived in that one b aseme nt bedroom - it seemed like forever. So just more or less becam e a part o f the family. He’d overhaul Dad’s cars and his machinery. He c ould take t hose apart from end to end and then put them back together ag ain. And he’ d help us milk the cows and lift the milk Cans around. H e was jus t a part of the family. Years later, he left. I don’t know wha t ever happ ened to him. My home life was really quite nice. We were a really close-knit family . D ad was really strict. We could kind of “who-do” Mother, but when Da d sai d something, boy, we knew he meant it. And he didn’t back down on e bit. H e was very stern and very serious. He reminded me a lot of the m ovie sta r Loren Greene. His mannerisms and such remind me of Dad. In the evenings, it seemed like Dad always went to bed early. He was wo r n out when night would come. And we’d get out the cards and play rumm y an d popcorn and Shorty would sneak out and go up to Swallows store an d bu y candy bars - which was really a treat. We had a lot of home evenin gs ju st playing cards and checkers and such a group. Mother got a bigge r kic k out of it than anybody. Dad would go to bed and read. He was alwa ys rea ding some church book or something. He was really very well-read a nd alwa ys grasping more education. He wanted to learn all there was to b e learne d. I guess that’s where I got the habit of reading in bed. Dad w as up an d ready to go the next morning, but Mother wasn’t because she’ d always st ay up late at night. But she got her share of the work in dur ing the day. I never worked and earned any of my own money before I was married. The r e was only once that I can remember that our whole family took a trip t og ether and that was when I was pretty-well grown. I think it was abou t th e last year I was home, and the whole family was going down throug h the c anyons for a three-day vacation. I stayed home because I had a d ate wit h Chester. At the time, that was the most important thing in th e world t o me. (I would probably do it again!) I think Nadine stayed hom e, too, be cause she had a date with Tom. It was just the custom, there was a dance in one of the adjoining town s e very weekend. And they’d have live bands. They had this one band tha t wer e all Hawaiians. They had these bands that would tour and they’d ju st sto p off at every little town and have a dance. And then they starte d the CC C, which was a government work program, and they built outdoor d ance hall s in every town. And every weekend one of the towns would hav e a dance, u sually on a Friday or Saturday night. And you always had t o have a date f or those dances. They’d usually have a little dance card s and you were pr etty proud if you had that card completely filled out b efore the dance wa s over with. I don’t recall standing in the stag lin e very much. I didn’ t ever have to look very hard for friends. And I ha d a lot of people tha t I thought a lot of, too. But there was just somet hing for the kids to d o in those days. Those dances were a big event. An d they were for everybo dy. Dad and Mother went to all of them. Parents a nd everybody went. Now w hen you have a dance, all that goes is the kids . (If you can call that da ncing!) But it was nice to have a social funct ion once a week for everyon e to look forward to. Everyone didn’t hav e a car so they could travel al l over the country. You just had to mak e your fun right there. I always felt real close to my father, although he was rather strict a n d a lot of people said he was rather stern. You just knew your limits w it h him and you just stayed within them. And when he said no, he meant n o . And if he told someone not to do something - I remember one of my sis te rs went to Kanosh when he had told her not to, and he and Mother got i n t he car and went after her. And I think she was a senior in high schoo l a t the time. He really meant business and was just really strict wit h hi s family. When my Grandfather Stott died, he was working in the court house as Cou n ty Assessor. So Dad and Grandma Stott took over his job and he’d go t o th e court house to work every day. I must have been about in the secon d o r third grade, but I remember occasionally he’d take me to work wit h him . Oh, that court house seemed like such an awesome place. I’d sit i n thi s little room he had, kind of off to one corner and had a little co uch i n it. Then I’d go to the library and get books. One of my school te acher s just lived across the street, and I’d go over and visit with he r fo r a while. It was always a special teat when Dad would let me go t o wor k with him. I don’t ever remember him taking any of the others. I t seeme d like I spent a lot of my growing up years with my father, mor e so tha n with Mother. Uncle Cleon’s oldest daughter, Beth, died following childbirth and it w a s just really hard because was just like a sister to us. The family wa s r eally close. She was married and living in Salina at the time. She ha d ma rried a school teacher from Richfield. It was her first baby, an d I was a lso pregnant with Jerri at the time. She developed an infectio n after th e birth and died and it was just really a sad thing. Her bab y girl live d and they named her Beth. It really was just like losing a s ister - it w as really hard. I went quite steady with Chester for about 4 years. Two of those winte r s he was in Logan going to school. I used to look forward to his lette r s so. The minute I’d get home from school I’d ask Mother if I got a let te r. We corresponded back and forth. And when he’d come home for Christm a s and Thanksgiving it was really a special time. Chester belonged to the Sigma Chi fraternity and this one spring, he ask e d me if I’d come up to Logan to the spring formal. Dad wasn’t going t o le t me go at first, but he finally gave in and I got a new formal dres s an d went up. It was so neat. The fellows all wore tuxedos and the danc e wa s so wonderful. And after the dance he and I were in the car alone a nd w e were parked by the fraternity house and he gave me his fraternit y pin a nd asked me if I’d marry him. That was so special. I was very muc h in lov e and knew he was who I wanted. So the next July 17, 1940, we were married at my home in Meadow by Milt o n Beckstrand. We had a nice big wedding dinner afterwards at my parent s ’ home. I remember my wedding dress. It was a white shark-skin dress th a t I got from the Sears catalog for $4.50. I’ve always been sorry tha t I d idn’t keep it. That was really a fantastic day! We drove to Salt La ke Cit y and stayed in the Hotel Newhouse that night, and then went on t o Yellow stone Park for our honeymoon. And we were very happy. Right afte r we go t home we had a wedding dance at the open air dance hall. There w as reall y a big crown - as large a wedding as they ever had. We got a lo t of beau tiful wedding presents. We lived with grandpa and grandma Johnson for a couple of weeks. Chest e r had bought a house on the next corner called the Petty place. And i t ha d a little stucco house on it and we stayed with Grandpa and grandm a whil e the people in it made arrangements to move out. And then we move d int o our first home. It was quite a let-down to both of us because we’ d com e from nice homes. There was no running water in the house. We;jus t ha d a wood cook stove and no facilities inside at all. But it was th e happi est time of our life. It was just really special. Every night wa s just li ke a date with Chester. I’d look forward to him coming home fro m work. H e worked really hard. He’d get up early in the morning and wor k as long a s he could see. After we’d been married two years, Jerri was born down in Meadow. I thou g ht that she was the most perfect child that had ever been born. She wa s j ust absolute perfection. Of course, I guess that goes for all new mot her s with their first baby. All of my babies were beautiful, and I lov e the m all very much. But it was just really fun to have a little baby . And th en within three years and three days had three children, Jerri , Pam and D iane. I had my first two children at Mother’s, and when Dian e was born, t hey had a Christensen Maternity Home in Fillmore. There wa s no hospital y et. But Mrs. Christensen opened up her home as a maternit y home. Diane wa s born six weeks early and just weighted a little over f our pounds. It wa s a miracle that her life was spared. There were no inc ubators like the y have today. Dr. Evans just looked at her and told Mrs . Christensen to w rap her in wool and keep her close to the fire. Mrs. C hristensen didn’t e ven have central heating, she just had a little oil h eater. For a long ti me Diane was quite a worry. We had a hard time wit h her digestion. She co uldn’t drink raw milk. We had to put lactic aci d in her mild and curdle i t before she drank it because her system jus t wasn’t capable of digestin g the milk as it was. She looked like a litt le tiny sparrow. And Grandp a Johnson took the credit for saving her life . Btu now as I think back, if Diane had been born today she would have be e n placed in an incubator for a number of weeks and been given differen t c are. But it was a miracle that she survive. She was meant to do so. T he b aby and I stayed at the maternity home for ten days and then came ho me to gether. With nearly all my children, at least up until Ginger, I la id fla t on my back for ten days after childbirth. That was the custom . I thin k on the fifth day I was allowed to put my feet over the edge o f the be d and was not allowed to even stand up until about the sixth o f seventh d ay. And actually, after that much time in bed. I was much wea ker than I w as when getting right up after the baby was born. By the tim e Ginger wa s born, they had built a new hospital in Fillmore and the res t of the chi ldren were born there. Anyway, it was rather hard, kind of like pioneers living in a little hou s e without any conveniences. But after we were married for seven years , w e built a new home and it was just beautiful. It was so wonderful t o ge t into a home that had a furnace and all of the conveniences. The ho use w as all completely paid for within a year after we moved in. That wa s real ly quite an accomplishment in those days. It was just like we ha d moved i nto a palace in comparison to what we had had. But I don’t thin k we wer e any happier than we were in that little house. We had a lot o f compan y and really entertained a lot. Every weekend we’d get with a gr oup and g o do something. And then it seemed like the babies just came real regularly until we h a d seven of them. And I was just so happy with each one. It was just alw ay s a real special feeling when we had a baby in the home. There was jus t a n atmosphere that can’t be compared to anything else. We had four girls and Chester wanted a boy so much and so did I. And fin a lly Ken was born and was that ever wonderful to finally have a son! Wh e n he was two weeks old, he developed an infection in his mouth and thro a t and we had to take him to a specialist in Provo. They immediately pu t h im in the hospital and he was in the hospital for two weeks. He was r eall y a sick little baby. The doctor told me if it got down in his lungs , h e couldn’t promise anything. I stayed with Gwen and Meldon while he w as i n the hospital. The doctor called me at Gwen’s one night and said th at we ’d better get someone and come and give the baby a name and a bless ing be cause the infection had gone down in his lungs. I called Chester a nd he c ame up immediately. We got Ariel Ballif who was a stake presiden t there i n Provo to come and give Ken a blessing and his name. It seeme d like righ t after that blessing Ken started improving and got well agai n. We alway s felt we were really blessed to save his life and be able t o bring him h ome. I recall about the only family vacation we took was just after Ken was b o rn. We left him with Grandpa and Grandma Johnson and got into our new b la ck Buick and took the children and went up through Yellowstone. It w a s a fun trip. We’d get up every morning and make some sandwiches whil e w e were still at the motel. Then we’d pull off the side of the road an d ha ve our lunch. Then later we had another boy, Jeff, and then we had two boys and four g i rls. And then when I was 40 years old, I was expecting Penni - which i s q uite late in life to be having a new baby. But I think the Lord kne w wha t he was doing when he sent her to me, because many a time she wa s my sal vation and gave me a purpose in life. I really enjoyed her, we w ere alway s real close. It seemed like when other children were growing u p, I was s o busy that I didn’t have the time to really enjoy them as muc h as I di d Penni. She and I were home alone. There’s just no feeling that can be compared to the feelings I had wh e n I had a new baby in my arms. But it is really special. The Lord give s y ou those little spirits to take care of and you really realize you ha ve t he responsibility to form their lives. But we seem to have done al l righ t by them. We’ve always been a really close family. When one membe r of th e family hurts, we all seem to hurt. We all pull together when pr oblems c ome up with any of us. And I’m sure the Lord will never send u s any probl ems that we can’t handle, with His help. He hasn’t up to date . Many a tim e I’ve called on Him. It seems like there’s always a few pro blems when th ere is a large family, but we can always rely on each othe r to help see u s through them. I’m sure the times that I have made the w rong decisions , the Lord had helped me pull out of them. And I could nev er have made i t without Him. As a rule, our children were all very healthy. Dr. Evans commented o n i t at one time when I was visiting him and said what a fine, healthy f amil y we had. They were all beautiful children. They were all real goo d kids , and I didn’t have any trouble with them. They had dual parents t hey ha d to answer to, with Grandpa and Grandma Johnson on the next corne r. The y really kept an eye on them when I didn’t. So there wasn’t much t hey go t away with. Grandpa and Grandma were quite an influence on the ch ildre n as they were growing up. They had a close relationship with thei r grand parents which I think all children really need. I got along comparatively well with my in-laws for living as close a s w e did. We had a few little ups and downs, but nothing serious that co uldn ’t be ironed out. And really, we did get along remarkably well. As the years went on, Chester bought a ranch up Salina canyon. He spe n t a great deal of time over there and I really had a hard time adjusti n g to him being gone so much. I really missed him. It seemed like ther e wa s just really a big gap in the home when he wasn’t here. And it wasn ’t to o many years after he bought the ranch in Salina that he joined a c orpora tion and moved out to Nevada to start a ranch they had purchased o ut ther e, which was one of the determining factors in our separation . I just did n’t feel like there was much of a purpose in even living wit hout a husban d. It was really an adjustment for me. And after we divorce d, it felt lik e life was just over. I didn’t always make the right decis ions, but the L ord was with me to help me through my bad times. I seemed like the problems soon melted way and I got control of my lif e . I went to the Trade technical College in Salt Lake and took a nurse s ai d course so I could be capable of working. After I came home, I wen t to w ork at the Delta Hospital for a summer. It proved to be just mor e tha n I could handle. Having never worked, and having to work that har d all a t once, I became ill and had to quit. And I was quite ill for on e summer. That fall, Beth Crosland called u and asked if I would like a job with t h e Family Services going to people’s homes and taking care of shut-in s . I did that for about four years. I would have as many as four or fiv e h omes that I would go into and do what was necessary so the people wou ld b e able to stay in their own homes without having to be hospitalized . It w as good for me to have that type of work because it was good to b e aroun d people who had more problems than I did. It helped me minimiz e what pro blems I did have and go through the adjustment I had to go thr ough at tha t time. And as that job dwindled away, I decided to see i f I could get wo rk as the school lunch program. I applied for that and w orked with them f or two years. We always had summers off, so I was aske d if I wouldn’t lik e to come work at the Fillmore Hospital for the summe r. So I went there j ust temporarily but hadn’t been there very long unti l they asked me i f I would work there permanently. I really like the wor k because I like d the atmosphere at the hospital. And it was a learnin g experience. Ever y day I’m still learning more about illnesses and th e problems that go wi th it. I am at eh present time taking a dietician s correspondence cours e that will give me some college credits and wil l merit me for more pay a nd a better job. I enjoy my work very much. Eve ry day is different an d I felt like I’m performing a service and am need ed. I really need to fe el needed. I feel like I have had a very wonderful life. There has been a lot of ha p piness in it. I was very much in love with my husband and I probably al wa ys will be, although our lives have taken different paths. We have a t i e to one another that can never be severed with our children. I’m grateful for the closeness I had with Grandpa and grandma Johnson af t er the divorce. They always made me feel like I was still their daughte r , which was really nice and helped me. When they both got very ill, I r em ember Grandma called me up one morning about eleven o’clock and she wa s c rying. She said, “Stella, can you come and help me? I can’t do my wor k” . I think that was the last day she attempted to do it alone. So fro m the n on, I went over and helped take care of her and grandpa until aft er Gra ndma died. I’d go over every morning and get her out of bed and he lp he r get dressed and just take care of all their needs, the two of the m. I t was quite a pathetic sight to see the two of them trying to contin ue o n and stay in their own home. Between Ken and I, I think we contribu ted t o the fact that they were able to stay home as long as they did. My father died at 63 years of age of cancer. His death was very brutal . H e died at home where he had stayed for quite a while and just literal ly w ithered away. We all loved him very much, and it was hard for us t o handl e. My mother is in pretty good health and she’s now living in a r etiremen t center in Salt Lake. Work was no stranger to us at home. The seven children, their father a n d I all worked really hard and long days. Most of the nights we would e a t supper while we watched the ten o’clock news. Then we’d be up again e ar ly the next morning and have a full day’s work, each one of us. The gi rl s all drove the tractor and milked cows. We all did everything we coul d t o put a little money away. I always did my own cooking and cannin g - anyt hing I could that would help to feed the family a little cheaper . I use d to bake around 12-13 loaves of bread every week. It was nice wh en we go t a deep freeze so that I could freeze it, and we could have fre sh brea d at all times. There was always plenty to eat at our house, we n ever wan ted for good food. The Lord has blessed me with seven beautiful children, which is the mo s t important thing in my life right now. I have five beautiful daughter s w ith a lot of class and two handsome sons. Jerri: there’s nothing impossible for that girl! When she was just tin y , about two years old, she had scarlet fever. At that time, which was b ef ore antibiotics, the health officer in town came and put a red flag o n ou r front gate and we could not leave the house at all for two week s - whic h was really hard. Then after the two weeks was up and the quara ntine wa s over, we had to fumigate our home. Pam: she is a beautiful lady, very sincere and very feeling for other pe o ple. When she was younger around home, no matter where I went I could t ur n around and she was with me. I used to call her my little shadow. I’ d g o hang clothes on the clothesline, and she would be right there wit h me. Diane: is always busy and very reliable. With her six children she alwa y s finds time to do church work and help others. Ginger: is a very special lady with a very quiet dignity. When she w a s a small child, she loved to smell gasoline. No matter where we’d pu t ou r power lawn mower, if we’d lose Ginger, we would find her with th e cap o ff the gas can smelling the gasoline. One time she was pretty wel l zonke d out of it. It was really quite scary. If we’d hide our lawnmowe r, she’ d go over to Grandpa’s and get in the shed and smell that gasolin e. Ken: is a very ambitious man and takes very good care of his mother. Jeff: is a very handsome young man. He is also very considerate and help f ul to his mother. And under that hair is a gentle, loving man. Penni: has literally been my salvation. She came when I really needed he r . The Lord knew better than I that at 41 years of age, I needed a chil d . At the present time, Penni is in Israel with the BYU travel study. S h e is having some wonderful experiences. I’ve always had a very close relationship with my children. It hasn’t ju s t been a parent0relationship, it’s been more of a friend-type-relations hi p. In tracing the Bennett genealogy, we discovered we were related to Pocah o ntas. I guess that’s what makes us all very reliable - and we’re surviv or s and fighters. We’re all really proud of that. Now that I look back, I have raised seven children, and I presently ha v e 22 grandchildren. I have worked as a nurse for family home services . Wo rked in the school lunch program and am now employed at the Fillmor e Hosp ital as a cook. It’s a job I really enjoy and I feel needed and ap preciat ed, which is very important to me. I married the man I loved an d I gues s I’ll always love him. I have no desire, whatever, to remarry. I’ve had many people ask me why I don’t sell my home and move away fro m H olden now that my family’s all gone. I have one of the nicest homes i n Mi llard County, and I’m very proud of it. I enjoy keeping I and am hap pies t when I’m home in it. But as far as family concerned - the whole to wn o f Holden is my family. If you don’t think they’re your friends, yo u jus t have a little trouble and see how they really around you and forg ive yo u. A lot of people might just think of that as being nosey. But th ey ar e not, really. It’s just a genuine concern for each other. I love l ivin g here. It’s my home and I don’t think I’ll ever move. So that is my life. I look back on it and I have made a lot of mistake s , but like I say, with the Lord’s help He has been on my side and help e d me through my problems. All While my children were raising, I taugh t Su nday School and Primary and took them with me. I enjoyed the wor k I was d oing. I am now 61 years old and feeling really well and enjoy h ard work s till.	Stott, Stella Vee (I20215)
1852	Obituary: Steven D. Clark passed away on September 23 from a pulmonary embolism . H e was doing what he loved most, water skiing at Lake Powell with hi s fami ly. Steven was born September 20,1958, in Salt Lake City to Justin Clark a n d Maureen Stout Eldredge. He was the second of their seventeen Childre n a nd was adored by all of his brothers and sisters. He served an LDS mi ssio n to Lisbon, Portugal, and served our country in the United States A ir Fo rce. He taught math and computer science and worked as a software e nginee r and a senior architect. When he wasn't water skiing he was playi ng racq uetball, humbling all who dared to challenge him. He married Beverly June Sleaper in 1983 and had two amazing children, Me l issa Ann and David Allen. He married Sharon Jean Peterson in 2000 and t he y had an awesome son, Jared Matthew. He was a devoted father and a lov in g husband. He was genuine and he served all of us, and kept us laughin g w ith his clever wit. No one could forget his laugh, and the tears tha t ra n down his face were priceless rewards to those who got him laughin g so h ard that he could not recover his composure. Steven is survived by his wife Sharon and children, Melissa, David, an d J ared; Sharon's children; Heidi Novak (Ben), Chris Bradley (Andrea), T o d d Bradley, Danny (Nadia) Bradley, Sean Bradley; his parents, his sibl in gs; Barbara Stout (Roger), Burton (Jeanette), Diane McLean (Steve), Da vi d (Crystal), Laura Westberg (Les), Bill (Myrna), Christine Mickelsen ( Bri an), Jeannette Shaw (Clark), Howard (Trina), Catherine Hammond (Gabri el) , Richard (Sarah), Mary Davies (Cameron), Justin (April), Jonathan, E ldo n (Pili). He is preceded in death by his brother Douglas. We will celebrate his life at an open house on Sunday, October 5th, 4: 3 0 - 7:30pm at the Westberg home: 12023 South 2240 West, Riverton, Utah.	Clark, Steven Duane (I64489)
1853	Obituary: Surrounded by family, Gale Moss Bangerter, 58, peacefully returned hom e t o her Heavenly Father January 13, 2007 after a courageous battle wit h bre ast cancer. Gale was born August 29, 1948 in Murray, Utah to Lee Ma x an d Ruth Cloward Moss, where she was the oldest of six children. She g rew u p in Layton and graduated from Davis High School and Weber State Un iversi ty. She married Jimmie Lee Bangerter February 21, 1969; they wer e later d ivorced. Gale was focused on the things that matter most in lif e. Her tho ughts and actions revolved around serving and nurturing her ch ildren, gra ndchildren and family. As a mother of five and grandmother o f 10, she wa s whole heartedly committed to the virtuous calling of mothe rhood. She cr eated a home based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Throug h her actions , she taught her children the importance of faith, prayer , compassion an d love. Gale has a solid and profound testimony of Jesu s Christ, the Pla n of Salvation and the eternal nature of families. He r testimony was a so urce of great strength and comfort during her strugg le with cancer. She w as a true disciple of Christ and desired to serve H im faithfully. Gale' s dream was fulfilled when she served a mission in t he Family and Churc h History Department in Salt Lake City. In her memoir s she wrote that he r favorite LDS church callings included anything in P rimary, Relief Socie ty President and Gospel Doctrine Teacher. She was al ways willing to giv e of herself to help those around her, and as a resul t many have been tou ched and blessed by her loving service, friendship a nd unconditional love . She especially had a unique love for children, pa rticularly those wit h special needs. Gale loved her visits to Europe, Ch urch history sites an d Temples. Scrapbooking, family history and gardeni ng were some of her fa vorite hobbies. But most of all, she loved spendin g time with her grandch ildren, especially at her monthly Family Home Eve ning. Gale is survived b y her mother, Ruth Moss of Layton; siblings, Dav id (Debbie) Moss of Layto n; Linda (Phil) Gibbons of Murray; John (Markay e) Moss of Layton; Thoma s (Cheryl) Moss of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jerr y (LeAnn) Moss of West Po int; children, Keith (Deitra) Bangerter of Drap er; Natalie (Cleon) Wall o f Layton; Annette (Dan) Holman of Syracuse; Vi ctoria (Gonzalo) Sherrow o f Roy; Andrea Bangerter of Sandy; grandchildre n, Mallory, Savanna, Zachar y and Ethan Bangerter; Felice Wall; Jordan an d Trevor Holman; Kirstie an d Taylor Sherrow. Preceded in death by her fa ther, Max Moss; grandson, Co lton Holman; and grandparents. Gale taught u s how to be courageous in th e face of overwhelming odds by trusting in t he Lord. She left an impressi on and created a legacy that will live eter nally in her family and friend s. We were certainly blessed to have had h er among us. Sincere thanks t o the wonderful doctors and nurses at Uta h Cancer Specialists, LDS Hospit al and Vista Care and to the family an d friends who gave time and compass ionate care during her many times o f need. Funeral services will be hel d Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 11 a .m. at the LDS chapel located at 147 5 W. 700 S., Syracuse. A viewing wil l be held Wednesday, January 17 fro m 6-8 p.m. at Lindquist's Layton Mort uary, 1867 N. Fairfield Road, Layton , and Thursday from 10-10:45 a.m. a t the church. Interment, Syracuse Cit y Cemetery.	Moss, Gale (I39953)
1854	Obituary: Tamara Pate 1964 ~ 2006 Our beautiful daughter, mother, sister and frien d , Tamara Pate, passed away in her sleep on October 9, 2006. Tammy was born on August 14, 1964 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Bud Duane P a te and Paulette Johnston Pate Botten. She is the youngest of three children and attended Olympus High School . S he married Kent Miner, and then later divorced. She had three beautiful children, Jeremy Don (Breanna) Miner, Mitch To d d Miner, and Tamara Chauntil Miner. Tammy loved spending time with he r ki ds and close friends. She also loved doing nails aside from working at Smith's, where she wa s e mployed for 23 years. She is survived by her three children, father, mother, brother Troy Ly n n Pate, sister Teresa Taylor, her half sisters Brittany Pate, Alexis Ni co le Pate, Danielle Christine Pate. Her step father Joseph Botten Jr. two step brothers Joseph Botten III,Ra n dy Warren Botten and step Mother Joan D. Pate Tamara is preceded in death by her half brother Christopher Bud Pate 198 3 -1996 Her Grandparents Norma Stewart Pate 1915-2004 Bud W. Pate 1915-1975 Of Utah Opal Starling Johnston 1917-1976 Grover Lee Johnston 1913-1974 Of South Carolina A viewing will be held on Friday, October 13, 2006 from 6 to 8 p.m. at W a satch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 Highland Drive. Services will be held on Satu rd ay, October 14, 2006 at Holladay 28th Ward Chapel, 2625 Milo Way (491 0 So uth), at 11 a.m. with a viewing one hour prior. Interment will be a t Wasa tch Lawn Memorial Park. Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on 10/12/2006.	Pate, Tamara (I148133)
1855	Obituary: Terrill J. Bond, 77, died on July 31, 2009 at Utah Valley Regional Medic a l Center in Provo, UT. Born September 13, 1931 in Meadow, UT to Clinton Jesse and Medra Alice L a brum Bond. Married Iris Charlesworth on February 9, 1951 in St. George, UT; solemni z ed in the Manti Temple on December 28, 2002. He worked for Wycoff Compa n y 21 years. Survived by his wife, children: Sharla (John) Starley, Meadow, UT; Jan ( J ohn) Frampton, Fillmore, UT; Terrill Lynn (Lynette) Bond, Meadow, UT a n d Carma (Mike) Hodges, Holden, UT; 14 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchil dr en; sister: Louise (Jerrold) Warner, Fillmore, UT. Preceded in death b y h is parents and a brother Junior L. Bond. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2009 in the Meado w W ard Chapel, 108 East Center Street, at 11:00 a.m. Viewings will be he ld o n Friday, August 7, 2009 from 7-9 p.m. and on Saturday, August 8, 20 09 fr om 9:30-10:30 a.m. prior to the services, both at the Church. Interment will be in the Meadow Cemetery. Deseret News, August 5, 2009	Bond, Terrill J (I34214)
1856	Obituary: The family of Bette Irene Balefske sadly announces that she has passed aw ay. She left this earth peacefully, surrounded by her daughters on Febru ary 27, 2018 after a brief illness. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Nov ember 5, 1935, Bette was the youngest of the nine children of Carl and Al ice Balefske. After leaving Utah, Bette set out for a life of travel and adventure, mov ing to Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, and finally making her way t o California. She worked as a waitress, bookkeeper, certified document e xaminer, and salesperson. One story often told about her journey was tha t she moved to Alaska in December and later on to Scottsdale, Arizona o n the Fourth of July, where she was a success at selling fur coats to sno wbirds. Bette had many passions in life, including ballroom dancing, sailing on c ruises, and handwriting analysis, but her greatest passion was her love f or her family. She had a keen sense of humor, as shown by this portion o f speech she once gave: “I was married and then I wasn’t, then I was marr ied and then I wasn’t married. While married, I had four children. My e ldest and only son was born on his 15th birthday. My eldest daughter i s now older than I am, but I assure her she is still beautiful. Even tho ugh people don’t ask, I know they think my 2nd daughter—third child—an d I are twins. My youngest daughter was born on my son’s 15th birthday s o that makes them born on the same day.” Beyond her humor, Bette’s unconditional love and open and generous hear t endeared her not only to her own immediate family circle but also to he r extended family of nieces, nephews, and all their children, not to ment ion her many close and long-time friends and companions. Bette was predeceased by her parents, her sisters, and two children; Shau na Bennett in 2005, and Jerry Jackson in 2017. She is survived by daught ers Jody Klatt and Cheryl Sweeney, as well as ten grandchildren, 16 great -grandchildren, with three more due in October. She is also survived b y many close friends whom we know she misses dearly. Friends are invited to attend the visitation on Thursday March 8, 2018 fr om 11:30AM-12:30PM with the memorial service at 12:30PM all at Price Fune ral Chapel (6335 Sunrise Blvd., Citrus Heights, 916-725-2109). Intermen t Fair Oaks Cemetery.	Balefske, Bette Irene (I178060)
1857	Obituary: The Salt Lake Tribune”, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, August 10, 1947, pa ge 10B: PROVO - Milton (Josh) Davis, 49, Orem, died Saturday morning i n a Salt Lake hospital following a lingering illness. He was born Aug. 26 , 1897, a son of Dennis J. and Ida Draper Davis. He received his educatio n in Provo and Orem schools. For the past two years he had lived in Oakla nd, Cal. He spent most of his life farming. He was also a member of the C hurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a veteran of World Wa r II. He is survived by two sons and one daughter, Dee Davis, Richard Dav is and Shirley Ann Davis, all of Orem; three brothers and two sisters: Ve ra M. Davis, Lakeview, Utah county; Ray Davis, Orem; Rual Davis, Provo; M rs. Mirtes Weeter, and Mrs. R. O. Benedict, both of Helper. Funeral servi ces will be conducted Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Grandview LDS ward chap el. Friends may call at the Quist funeral home Monday evening and Tuesda y prior to services. Interment will be in the Provo city burial park.	Davis, Milton Joshua (I158864)
1858	Obituary: Thea D. Clayton 1916 ~ 2004 Thea Clayton left this world in peace on Oct o ber 3, 2004. She was a very loving, kind and generous woman and was adm ir ed and respected by all who knew her. She was always happy and could f in d good in everyone and everything. She will be missed by all who kne w he r and will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever. Born Januar y 5, 19 16 in Cowley, Wyoming to Evelyn Eyre and Archie Duncan. Graduate d from We st High School and LDS Business College. Married Elmo Clayton J uly 26, 19 34. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1966, her infant son, Elmo J r ., in 1954 and her grandson, Jon Bell. She never remarried because sh e sa id that Elmo was her only true love. She is survived by her sister , Haze l McGhie, her three daughters, Diane Clayton, Judith Altieri, an d Jan Mar quez, her three grandchildren, James L. Bell, Joel Bell, and Je ssica LeFe bvre, and six great-grandchildren. Thea was a homemaker until she was 48 when she attended LDS Business Col l ege. While she was attending school, her husband passed away but she su pp orted herself until she graduated in 1966. She worked in the Universit y o f Utah Library until she retired at age 80. She was active in the LD S Chu rch where she taught Primary, Sunday School, and Relief Society an d serve d as Primary President for many years. She was a member of the Da ughter s of Utah Pioneers. A group of widows in her LDS Ward formed a Cir cle o f Friends and got together every week for "family home evening" fo r man y years. She loved to camp, fish and hunt. She also loved to trave l and w ould go on a trip at the drop of a hat. She traveled to Hawaii, M exico, G uatemala, and all over the U.S. Her most memorable trip was a cr uise to t he Orient. In later years she visited her daughter on the Orego n coast wh ere she loved to watch the ocean and walk on the beach. Funeral services will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, October 9, 20 0 4 at the LDS Ward on 2700 South and Main Street in South Salt Lake. A v ie wing will be held one hour prior to service at the church where friend s a nd family may call. Interment will follow at Salt Lake City Cemeter y wher e she will be laid to rest next to her beloved husband and infan t son. Ar rangements by SereniCare, Funeral Directors.	Duncan, Thea (I33656)
1859	Obituary: Theron D. Swallow He will be missed Theron D. Swallow, age 89, formerl y o f Meadow, UT, passed away Nov. 5, 2003 in Orange County, CA. He is su rviv ed by his children Marilyn Larson, Charles Swallow and Sandra Swallo w; si ster Elva Limberg; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren . He i s preceded in death by his wife Pearl Kimball. Funeral Services will be held Monday, November 10, 2003 at 12:00 p.m . a t the Meadow LDS Ward in Meadow, UT. The family will receive friend s fro m 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the church, prior to the funeral. Arrangement s unde r the direction of Olpin Southern Utah Mortuary, Fillmore, UT.	Swallow, Theron Davies (I34688)
1860	Obituary: Tirzah Emma, oldest daughter of Robert F. and Sineche V. Harris, was bo r n near Bath, N.Y., April 6, 1853, going with her parents in early child ho od to Potter County, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty she united i n mar riage to John Hunt, which union was blessed with two daughters, Pru denc e and Effie, and three sons, Hartley, Walter and Herbert. Six year s ago t hey came to Cuba, where they have since made their home. Mrs. Hunt was a woman of lovely Christian character. Her sweet fidelit y t o her duty and quiet submission in times of trial made her greatly be love d by all that have known her. The wise, true, loving wife and mothe r tha t she was made her counsel and example of untold value. Most of her married life was spent in Pennsylvania and it was there th a t her children were born. She was for many years a member of the Free M et hodist church. Her health, which had not been good for some time, began rapidly faili n g about February 1, due to toxemia and since then she had gradually gro w n weaker. On the 31st of July she suffered three slight shocks, and whi l e she regained consciousness, never fully recovered, and slipped awa y o n August 8, when she fell into a gentle sleep and thus passed to th e lif e beyond. Her funeral, which was held from the home Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clo c k, was largely attended, many coming from the old home at Genessee, Pa . D r. Charles Haines of the M.E. church, delivered a most comforting add ress . Interment was made in the Cuba cemetery.	Harris, Tirzah Emma (I105240)
1861	Obituary: TOOELE/RICHFIELD - Farren "J" Duncan, age 79, our beloved husband, fathe r , grandfather, and brother, passed away April 12, 2002. Born Sept 10, 1922, in Meadow, Millard County, UT the son of James Alon z o and Jesse Ann Barkdull Duncan. married Roween Day, July 21, 1949 in Fillmore, UT; later solemnized in the Jordan River LD S T emple. Attended Branch Agricultural College. Veteran World War II, where he ser v ed with the U. S. Navy in the South Pacific and the China-Burma-India T he atres. Retired as Chief of Security Guard Division, Dugway Proving Gro und s, after a career of 37 years. Survived by his beloved wife, Roween, Richfield (recently of Tooele); ch i ldren, Pamela (Ken) Stranko, Winchester, IN, Debra (Alan) Larsen, Richf ie ld, Vickie (wife of F. Shane Duncan, deceased), Dugway, Danna Duncan , Ver nal; Terril Shawn (Dorey) Duncan, Beaverton, OR; 16 grandchildren ; one gr eat-grandson; brothers and sisters, Aleda (Jay) Watson, Salt Lak e City, G ail (Audrey) Duncan, Cedar City, Stella (Bill) Matthews, Palo s Verdes Est ates, CA, Owen (Margene) Duncan, Glendale, CA, Blanche (Eli ) Robinson, Or em. Preceded in death by his parents; a son, Farren Shane ; brothers, Oreg a, Dean, and Don. Services will be Wed. April 17, 2002, 11 a.m., Neal S. Magleby & Sons Mo r tuary Chapel, 50 S. 100 W, Richfield, where friends may call Tues. 7 - 8 p . m. and Wed. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Burial, Meadow Cemetery, 3 p.m. wit h milita ry rites by the Utah National Guard Fillmore Unit.	Duncan, Farren J (I4924)
1862	Obituary: Twila Johns Harrison 1933 ~ 2013 Twila Johns Harrison passed away at her daughter's home in Weiser aft e r a short bout with pancreatic cancer on September 26, 2013 at age 79. Twila was born on December 23, 1933 in Virden, New Mexico to Bill and Sa b ra Johns. She was the sixth Child of seven. In 1948, the family move d t o Emmett where she went to school. There she met her handsome husban d Bob by Harrison. They were married July 8, 1950 in Winnemucca, Nevada . To the ir union, they were blessed with three children, Terry, Ronda an d Tim. Twila and Bobby spent their early married years ranching and truckin g i n the Emmett and Payette Valley. In 1965, they moved to Cambridge, Id ah o and worked together raising their family and in the logging industr y i n the Central Idaho Mountains until the time of Bobby's death in 1996 . Twila was a hard worker in everything she undertook, whether working alo n gside her family in the logging business, maintaining beautiful award w in ning flower gardens, restoring furniture, remodeling and maintaining a par tment complexes in Weiser. Many friends and family members spent hours around her kitchen table, s e e king her wisdom and counseling on how to navigate this earthly life . Sh e was a true friend to all. Twila was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, two brothers, hu s band Bobby, son Terry and granddaughter Heather. Left behind are her daughter Ronda (Kim) Wagner and children Bobbi, Mich e lle and Scott; son Tim (Missy) and children Levi, Ian and Zach; daughte r- in-law Cecilia Harrison and children Eric and Sarah; niece Jana (Ted ) Ive rson and children, Ryan, Erin, Lexi, D.J.; brother Rex (Carolyn) Jo hns; s ister Nydda (Alec) Allen; brother Louis (EIIa Mae) Johns; 17 great -grandc hildren; numerous nieces and nephews and dear friends. There will be no services at this time. Memorial donations can be made to Wildland Firefighter Foundation, 2 0 4 9 Airport Way, Boise, ID 83705 Published in Idaho Statesman on October 7, 2013	Johns, Twila (I158583)
1863	Obituary: Venla Whipple Reid, age 82, passed away Saturday, February 2, 2019. Sh e m arried William V. Reid in the Mesa Arizona LDS temple on March 20, 19 58 . Her devotion to her family and belief in the gospel supported here t hro ughout her life and gave her peace. Venla was born to Charles and Adele Whipple, in Show Low, Arizona. Sh e i s survived by 4 children Charles Vern Reid (Marlo), Katherine D’lyn n Ward (Samuel), Tod William Reid (Jenalee), and Laurel Faith Reid. She a lso ha s ten grandchildren, whom she adored, and 4 great-grandchildren. V enla i s also survived by three brothers. She is preceded in death by he r husban d, her parents, three sisters, and two sons, John Thor Reid an d Jeffrey W ayne Reid. She was a graduate of BYU and enjoyed reading and crocheting. She serv e d as Relief Society President and served many years in the genealogy ex tr action program, and as a ward librarian. Funeral services will be at 11:00 am, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at t h e Clinton 20th Ward, 1288 W. 1300 N. Clinton, UT with a viewing prio r t o services from 10:00 to 10:45 am. Interment afterward at the Clinto n Cit y Cemetery.	Whipple, Venla (I161817)
1864	Obituary: Verda Louise Terry Stewart passed away from illness related to age on Au g ust 18, 2014 at the Beehive Home in Hurricane, Utah. Verda was born March 22, 1927 to Amos F. Terry and Eunetta Elliker in De l ta, Utah and was number nine of ten children. When she was young her pa re nts moved from Lehi, Utah to Santaquin, Utah to Payson, Utah and final l y settled in Enterprise, Utah where Verda spent the majority of her gro wi ng. She attended school in St. George one year while her parents served a te m ple mission, and graduated from Woodward Jr. High School. When their mi ss ion was complete they moved back to Enterprise where Verda graduated f ro m Enterprise High. She worked picking up potatoes in the fall during h e r growing up years, to earn money for her school tuition, clothes and o th er needs and wants. She met Robert Nelson Stewart in 1946 and they were married that yea r o n July 31st. The early years of their marriage moved them from Provo , Uta h to LaVerkin, Utah, to work on the railroad in Acoma, Nevada and b ack t o Enterprise, before settling in St. George to manage health need s of on e of their children in a warmer climate. Robert and Verda were blessed with five children. They have 19 grandchil d ren (1 deceased), and 33 great-grandchildren. They gave a place in the i r home for three foster children - each for a short period of time whe n t heir children were young. Verda was an active member of the LDS Church and served in many callin g s through the years, including Primary, Scouts, YWMIA, and Relief Socie ty . She and Robert served a mission in the Portland Oregon Mission fro m 198 8-1989 and a mission in the St. George Temple after their return fr om Por tland, until health issues required a change. She is preceded in death by her husband; Robert Nelson Stewart, her pare n ts; six sisters -May (Roy) Staheli, Jennie (Gordon) Swapp, Francis (Eva n ) Earl, Idella Terry, Ivena (Elmon) Hendrickson, Vilate (Preston) Robin so n; one brother - Amos Franklin Terry; and one grandson- Jacob Stewart . Sh e is survived by her brothers Louis Vee (Delores) Terry, and Orvil K ay (A rlene-deceased) Terry; children: Linda (Lynn) Stout, Paul Robert St ewart , Gail (Bruce) Christensen, June (David) Jeffery, and Howard Kay (D ebra ) Stewart; their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Verda was a good cook and spent 22 years in the Washington County Scho o l Lunch program. She loved music and was in band in high school, but h e r favorite music was singing. She and her three best girlfriends san g i n the halls at school, down the streets of town, and performed at mos t o f the events in Enterprise. She would tell stories of crowds gatherin g i f they practiced outside in someone's yard. The world was a quieter p lac e then and they could be heard all over town. As Verda got older he r voic e gave out and she experienced a great hearing loss. Those two cha nges we re the most difficult things she had to bear, especially where mu sic wa s concerned. She took up oil painting later in life and found a gr eat dea l of joy in creating beautiful scenes on canvas. Then as her ey e sight fa iled she felt that loss, those paintings became cherished poss essions. He r greatest joy was in her husband, her children, and her gran dchildren. Bob and Verda moved to the Beehive Home in Hurricane, Utah in December 2 0 12 when care at home became difficult to manage. The family wishes to e xt end appreciation to the caring staff and residents at the Beehive Home , a lso to the caring members of the Hurricane 15th Ward and St. George 1 0t h Ward, and beloved friends in their St. George neighborhood that wa s hom e for over 57 years, visiting teachers, and caregivers throughout t he yea rs from Southern Utah Home Health, the Five County Association o f Governm ents, Applegate Home Health, and Dixie Home Health and Hospice. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 2:00 p.m . a t the St. George LDS 10th Ward Chapel, 591 West 500 North, St. George , Ut ah. Visitations will be held Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 8:0 0 p.m . at Metcalf Mortuary, 288 West St. George Blvd. and on Wednesday , prio r to services, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Chapel. Interme nt wil l be held in the St. George City Cemetery.	Terry, Verda Louise (I42182)
1865	Obituary: Vern Wickens Carsey 7/13/1936 ~ 3/3/2010 Vern went in his sleep on the m o rning of March 3, 2010. Vern was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 13, 1936, to Genevieve a n d Ernest Carsey. He is survived by: his wife, Renee (Olsen); his children, Robert Carse y ( Bonnie), DeDaun DeJesus (Luis), Paul Carsey (Sue), RobinAnn Hale (Lam oin) , Reneta Herera (Neno), Michael Carsey (Kindy), and Utahna Lee (Norm ); 3 8 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Flo Wine riter , Gail Wineriter and Lorin Carsey; two sisters Jenean Childers an d Lynnet te Anthony. He served in the Boy Scouts for 37 years and received many awards. He al s o served his country in the United States Military. He was a great man to all of us and will be missed. Funeral services will be held, Monday, March 8, at 11:00 a.m. at Riversi d e 1st Ward, 5425 S. 600 W. A viewing will be held Sunday from 6 - 8 p. m . at Redwood Mortuary, 6500 S. Redwood Rd, and one hour prior to servi c e on Monday at the Church. Interment to follow services at Redwood Memo ri al Cemetery.	Carsey, Vern Wickens (I171203)
1866	Obituary: VERNAL Funeral services for William Smith Martin one of the last southe r n Utah pony express riders were held here Saturday in the First LDS wa r d chapel with Pontha Calder, bishop, officiating. He died in a Provo ho sp ital of causes Incident to age and his body was brought for to Verna l hi s home town since 1910. He was born at Goshen, Utah County May 4 1854 a son of John and Isabel S m ith Martin. His family moved to Meadow In 1860. When he reached the ag e o f 18 he entered the government service as a pony express rider, and r od e 80 miles every other night between Thompson Springs Utah and Pioche , Ne vada carrying the U.S. Mail. He left the government service and move d t o Manassa Colo. where he entered he sheep business. In 1884 he marrie d La ura Daniels of Manassa. She died a year later leaving a daughter nam ed Is abell. In 1898 he married Emmeline Pidcock of Ogden. They moved to Vernal in 19 1 0 where he farmed and had lived since. He filled a mission for the LD S ch urch in the Southern States In 1896 to 1897. Besides his widow, seven daughters and sons survive: Mrs. Blanche Hard y , Calpet, Wyo, Maude Martin, Price, Mrs. Olive Barrett, Nampa Idaho, Mr s . Lois McCoy, Vernal, William Lester Martin, Vernal, Robert McQuarrie , Mi dvale and 17 grandchildren.	Martin, William Smith (I106982)
1867	Obituary: Wayne Gerratt was born May 12, 1935, in Sioux City, Iowa, the younges t o f five children born to Anna Marie Orris and Walter Gerratt. He die d at h is home in New Haven, Ky. His funeral was April 2 at Olinger Andrews Caldwell Gibson Funeral Hom e , Castle Rock, CO. Interment will be at Elizabeth Cemetery, Elizabeth . Th e Rev. Hank Hiddinga officiated. Mr. Gerratt attended school in Sioux City until he was 14 years old wh e n his family moved to Denver. That was the same summer he went with hi s B oy Scout Troop to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico for two weeks. H e pa id his way by saving money he earned on his paper route. Mr. Gerratt worked in Tony's Drug store on South Pearl Street during h i s high school years, as a soda jerk. He joined the U.S. Navy in July 1955. He was assigned to the Sea Bees t h e construction division of the Navy. He was stationed in California, Al as ka, Hawaii and Okinawa. After being discharged in 1959, he worked various jobs until being hir e d by the post office, where he stayed until retiring. Mr. Gerratt is survived by his daughters, Mechelle Gerratt King of Auror a , Co., and Shawn Lee Gerratt Jensen Filkins of Elizabethtown, Ky., an d hi s four grandchildren Nicholas Gerratt, Anthony Jensen, Timothy Jense n an d Brittany Jensen of Elizabethtown, KY.	Gerratt, Wayne Leroy (I59669)
1868	Obituary: Wayne Jackson Stanton left this mortal existence on Feb. 4, 2007. He w a s born Nov. 10, 1932 to Joseph Leslie Stanton and Melva Elizabeth Jack s o n. He married Eluned (Lyn) Whitton Jan. 27, 1955 in the Salt Lake LD S Tem ple. Wayne attended West and Granite High Schools, graduating from Granite. F o r the love of his country he served 22 years of active duty in the US A rm y. Wayne’s military training led to his civilian career as a compute r pro grammer for Salt Lake City Corporation. Wayne and his beloved companion and best friend, Lyn, did not let any “g r ass grow under their feet”. They served two missions for the LDS Churc h a nd traveled many places in the US and the world. Wayne enjoyed takin g pic tures of all the places they visited. Wayne had a lifetime of service in the LDS Church and was a branch presi d ent in Germany, counselor in the presidency of the Stuttgart Germany Se rv icemen’s Stake and bishop in Salt Lake. He always served in any capaci t y to which he was called. He was a dedicated and wonderful father and grandfather and leaves, in a d dition to his wife Lyn, two sons and two daughters: Roger Wayne Stanto n , Julie (Randy) Basham, Gayle (Steve) Greene, and David Andrew (Valer i e ) Stanton; 12 grandchildren; sister Marilyn (Kaye) Nelson of Hurrican e, U tah and brother David (Ginger) Stanton of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Thanks to the IHC Hospice nurses and other caregivers for their kindne s s and care to Wayne as his life ebbed away. Thanks also to many friend s a nd neighbors for their love and support. We, his family and friends , wil l miss his wonderful sense of humor, imagination and creativity. H e wa s a gentle soul and loved by all those whose life he touched. Funeral services will be held Monday, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at th e C hapel at Utah Veterans Memorial Park, 17100 S. Camp Williams Road i n Bluf fdale, Utah. Friends and family may call at the Chapel beginning a t 10: 0 0 a.m. Interment with military honors will follow at the Utah Vet eran s Memorial Park.	Stanton, Wayne Jackson (I87988)
1869	Obituary: Wendall Kay Young (Bill) passed away on Feb. 28 after a courageous and ha rd fought battle with lung disease and pneumonia. He is preceded in deat h by his partner Joanne Hornstra, his parents, two brothers, three sister s and his son Craig. He has spent the last 20 years in Tooele to be clos e to his family. He is survived by Janette Hooley and husband Laroy, Scott Young and wif e Tina, Cindy Moosman and husband Kay, Carla Hansen and husband Roland, a nd several grandkids. Bill spent many years in Alaska as port engineer at Nikiski for Crowley M aritime. He loved Alaska and always wanted to return someday to see his m any friends there. He will be laid to rest in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Those who would l ike to pass on any condolences may e-mail the family at ldsscott.young@gm ail.com. Published in the Tooele Transcript Bulletin, March 1, 2012	Young, Wendell Kay (I65266)
1870	Obituary: Wendell Howard, 85, passed away in Gladstone, OR, on May 14, 2006 . Wendell was born in Goodyear, AZ, on April 20, 1921. He was raised in Ra y , AZ, and also lived in Minneapolis, MN . Wendell married Lucille Krause in 1950. They had one son, Jackson . After Lucille's passing in 1979, Wendell moved to Oregon and married Dor o thy Rumgay in 1982. Wendell was a WWII Navy submarine veteran . He retired from Phoenix Elementary School District #1 where he worke d a s Building Manager at Grace Court and Kenilworth Schools . Wendell is survived by his wife, Dorothy Howard, Gladstone, OR; son Jack s on (Jackie) Howard, Queen Creek, AZ; stepchildren Keith (Penny) Rumgay , M ilwaukie, OR; Rick (Roxy) Rumgay, Bend, OR; Pat (Bill) Carson, La Gra nde , OR; & Gary (Colleen) Hardenbrook, Vancouver, WA; brother Harold How ard , New Kent, VA; sisters Marilyn (Ed) Bell, Fresno CA; Jeanette Pressl er , Glendale, AZ; and Pearl Farnham, Glendale, AZ; sister-in-law Maxin e (Bi ll) Oman, Minneapolis, MN; 10 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildr en . His cremains have been placed next to his late wife, Lucille, at Sunwe s t Cemetery in El Mirage, AZ.	Howard, Wendell (I161810)
1871	Obituary: WENDELL • Emma Adams, age 94, of Wendell, passed away Friday, Aug. 2, 20 1 3, in Jerome. She was born Jan. 5, 1919, in Salina, Utah, the fifth o f e ight children born to Alfred Martin and Minnie Shepherd Martin. She g re w up in Salina and graduated from North Sevier High School in 1937 an d th e Provo School of Beauty Culture in 1938. She married James Thursto n of V anduser, Mo., in September 1938, and they had three children. Emm a and Ja mes both worked at Hill Air Force Base in Layton, Utah, until Ja mes passe d on Dec. 8, 1955. Emma then married Bert Whipple in 1956 and m oved to We ndell, where they remained together until Bert died in 1977. S he then liv ed alone until she met and married Lawrence Adams of Wendel l on Aug. 23 , 1984. Lawrence passed away in 2008. Emma developed cance r in 2012 and f ought it bravely until the end. She is survived by thre e children, Rober t Thurston, Joyce Fraser and Martin Thurston; nine step children, Harvey N elson, Jim Whipple, Larry Adams, Keith Adams, Loren Ad ams, Lyle Adams, Li nda Boguslawski, Rodney Adams and Kathy Adams; eigh t grandchildren; and 1 0 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death b y her parents, four brot hers, three sisters and three husbands. The funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug 9, in the Wendell L D S 2nd Ward chapel, 605 N. Idaho St. in Wendell, Idaho. A visitation wi l l begin one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in the Kay sv ille, Utah cemetery. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mor tua ry of Jerome.	Martin, Emma (I159194)
1872	Obituary: WHITNEY, Idaho - Georgia Arlene Poole, 74, passed away Dec. 7, 2011, i n P reston, Idaho. She was born March 31, 1937, in Preston, Idaho, to Wil lia m Wright and Georgia Hyde Poole. A twin brother, George Arlen d Poole , pr eceded her in birth by a few minutes. She attended grades one through eight at Whitney Elementary School and g r aduated from Preston High School in 1955. She attended Brigham Young Un iv ersity. Arlene earned a degree as a dental assistant in San Francisco , Ca lif. Upon graduation, she worked for Dr. Quill Allen, DDS, in Logan , Utah , for 28 years. When Dr. Allen retired, she decided to pursue diff erent e mployment opportunities. Some jobs she found interesting were bei ng a nan ny to a family in Staten Island, N.Y., and then for a family i n Park City , Utah. She loved the children she cared for. She also worke d as a hostes s at the Bridgerland Restaurant in Logan. She was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sai n ts where she served primarily as a teacher in Primary, Sunday School o r M utual. She gave 100 percent to each calling. She liked to read and en joye d studying church books and the scriptures. She is survived by her siblings, Maxine (Richard) Knight of Bountiful, U t ah, Arlend (Cleo) Poole of Whitney, William D. (Maxine) Poole of Wood s Cr oss, Utah, Virginia Flippence of Preston, Idaho, Douglas (Debbie) Po ole o f West Valley City, Utah, and Richard (Debbie) Poole of Whitney; an d by m any nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her pare nts an d a brother-in-law, Larry Flippence. Arlene was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991. She has spent t h e last nine years in the Franklin County Transitional Care Center. He r fa mily expresses their gratitude to Dr. David Beckstead and the staf f at th e care center for their love, compassionate service and tender ca re give n to Arlene. Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday, Dec. 17, in the Whitne y 1 st Ward chapel. Friends may call from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday a t th e church. Interment will be in the Whitney Cemetery.	Poole, Georgia Arlene (I35259)
1873	Obituary: WIDOW, UTAH PIONEER, DIES Mrs. Sophia Fuller Gee Passes Away in Home of Daughter. Mrs. Sophina Fuller Gee, widow of George W. Gee of Provo, died Frida y a t the home of her daughter, Mrs, Hyrum C. Smith, wife of Presiding Pa tria rch Smith, 1358 Yale avenue. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p. m. at the Provo Fifth war d c hapel. The body may be viewed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. K . Hod son, 57 North Fourth East Street, Provo, Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Gee was born at Nashville, Lee county, Iowa, May 5, 1843, the daugh t er of Amos B. Fuller and Esther Smith. She accompanied her widowed mother, four brothers and a younger siste r t o Salt Lake, arriving August 17, 1856. She was a granddaughter of Asa he l Smith, an uncle of Joseph Smith. She was married May 4, 1862 to George W. Gee in the Salt Lake endowmen t h ouse, and later moved to Provo. She is survived by the following (children: Elias A. Gee, Provo; Mrs. Jo s eph S. Smith, Provo; Mrs. J. A. Hodson, Provo; Dan C. Gee, Salt Lake; M rs . Thomas G. Summer, Salt Lake; Mrs. Hyrum G. Smith, Salt Lake; Mrs. El vo n L. Jackson, Provo. thirty-seven grandchildren and thirty great-grand chi ldren. HISTORY OF SOPHINA A. FULLER GEE By Her daughter, Ina Gee Hodson June 1926 Sophina A. Fuller Gee's ancestors back to her third great grandparent s o n both her father and mother's side were born in America. She is a de scen dant on her father's side of Robert Fuller and Margaret Waller, wh o cam e to America in 1638 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. They wer e her f ourth great grandparents. Their son Benjamin and his wife Judith Smith were her third great grandp a rents. Amos Fuller and Priscilla Woodworth were her second great grandp ar ents. James Fuller and Abiah Bottsford were her first great grandparents. Luth e r Fuller and Lorana Mitchell were her grandparents. And now we come t o he r father whose name was Amos Bottsford Fuller. On her mother's side she is a descendent of Samuel Smith and Rebecca Cur t is who were her third great grandparents, and his son Samuel and Prisci ll a Gould were her second great grandparents. Asahel Smith and Mary Dut y we re her grandparents and their daughter Esther Smith was her mother . The e arly settlers of the New England States did considerable moving a round. I f the conditions were not favorable for the kind of work the fam ily did , they would move to another part. For this reason we often fin d our ance stor's fathers coming from one state and our ancestor's mothe r from anoth er. This moving around had its advantages as well as its dis advantages. B esides trying to improve their financial conditions, it gav e the familie s the opportunity of enlarging their circle of acquaintance s. Thus the yo ung people would meet, court, marry and often move to an e ntirely differe nt locality to begin their life's work together. So it wa s with the ances tors of Sophina A. Fuller Gee. About the same time the children of Asahel Smith 1st and Mary Duty wer e g rowing up in New Hampshire there was a family by the name of Schellin ge r (Abraham Schellinger and Jane Johnson Schellinger) in Connecticut wh o w ere trying to do their bit to make the New England States a better pl ac e in which to live. In the course of moving around the Smiths and th e Sch ellingers became friends, and Asahel Smith II married Elizabeth Sch elling er. They were the grandparents of Sophina A. Fuller Gee. Asahel Sm ith I I was born in Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, May 21, 17 73. H e was an uncle of the Prophet Joseph Smith and was the third Patria rch o f the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Elizabeth Schell inger , his wife, was born in Chatham, Hartford, Connecticut, December 1 , 1775 . This couple moved to Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, New York. T hey wer e blessed with eight children, three boys and five girls. Esthe r Smith wa s the fourth child born to this couple and she was married t o Amos Bottsf ord Fuller March 8, 1832. They were the parents of Mrs. Gee . Amos Bottsfo rd Fuller was born in Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, Ne w York March 26 , 1810. He was a Colonel in the Nauvoo Legion at the tim e of the martyrdo m of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. He joined the Church in 18 36 and filled seve ral short missions in the States before starting West. Esther Smith, his wife, was born in the same town as her husband, Septem b er 20, 1810. She also joined the Church in 1836. There were nine childr e n born to them, five boys and four girls. They lived in Stockholm unti l a fter their first three children were born, a boy and a girl who die d at b irth and Jesse J. Fuller. Then they moved to Fredricksburg, Ray Co unty, M issouri where Mary Adelia was born. She became the wife of J. Wil liam Lew is, who owned the Lewis Hall in Provo where the Brigham Young Ac ademy wa s first started. He was also the owner of the block where a par t of the B righam Young University buildings now stand. After Mary Adeli a was born t hey moved to Nashville, Lee County, Iowa where Luburn Lavoni a and Sophin a Alcesta were born. They then moved to Voree, Wolworth Coun ty, Wisconsi n where Amos Bottsford Jr. was born September 28, 1846. In the early part of November 1848 this family, consisting of father, mo t her and five children, the oldest 13 years old and the youngest less th a n two years, packed their belongings and bade farewell to all who wer e de ar to them in Nashville and started for Council Bluffs, where a ban d of S aints were gathering preparatory to coming to the Rocky Mountains . The su bject of this history was then four and a half years old, havin g been bor n May 5, 1843. The family traveled all day, and when night cam e stopped a t Forte Des Moines, Iowa. Here the soldier’s barracks were de serted, wit h the exception of a few soldiers who were on guard. It was r aining ver y hard and during the night it snowed. The next morning they s tarted on t heir journey, and after traveling a few miles found the road s almost impa ssable. As her mother was not very well, her father decide d to go back t o Forte Des Moines and wait until the weather improved. Bu t it continue d to snow, accompanied by a blizzard. The temperature dropp ed to the free zing point. Under the circumstances it was deemed best t o make the desert ed barracks their home for the winter. Her father was a blacksmith by trade, so he set up his forge and began s h oeing horses and repairing wagons for the Saints who passed by on thei r w ay to the Rocky Mountains. Soon after this the Fort, was chosen to b e on e of the wayside stations and her father was asked by the leaders t o sta y for a while to assist the passing immigrants by doing their repai r work . He did so, and months later, under very unfavorable circumstance s a bab y girl was born to them. The mother came very near giving her lif e, but t he hand of the Lord was over her and she finally recovered. Thi s little g irl was given the name of Esther Victoria. Early the following spring a Dutchman, whose name was not remembered, a n d who was a boot, shoe, and a harness maker and a Mr. Haymond, who w a s a wagon maker, went into business in the same place with Mr. Fuller . Th is was in 1849 when the gold rush was on in California and it brough t o n an immense immigration. So among the three workmen wagons and harne sse s were made and repaired, horseshoeing was done, boots and shoes wer e mad e and mended for the moving mass of travelers. Mrs. Fuller was a very good tailor and was kept busy making suits and ov e rcoats and mending trousers and coats for those needing this kind of wo rk . This was indeed a very busy corner, and many times the yard was fill e d with travelers and their outfits for days and weeks waiting for the n ec essary repairing to be done before going farther on their journey. Mr. Fuller bought 160 acres of land from the Indians for a small sum a n d built a very comfortable log house on it for his family. The old For t h ad grown into a real town and the log cabins had been replaced by ver y ni ce cottages. By this time the wagon maker and shoemaker had left fo r th e West and Mr. Fuller was taking full charge of the needs of the tra velin g public, which seemed to increase all the time. The Fuller famil y was ge tting very anxious to join the Saints in Utah and were now pract ically pr epared to leave, but the mother was in a delicate condition an d the fathe r, fearing a repetition of the previous time and the danger s of being awa y from help on the unsheltered plains in hot summer, thoug ht it wise to w ait a little longer. On July 3, 1852 their last child was born, a boy, who was named Asahel L u ther. When this child was but a few months old the husband and father w a s striken with typhoid fever and after suffering for two or three mont h s died, leaving the wife and seven children to battle with pioneer lif e w ithout the help of the head of the household. From the events that ha ppen ed, it seemed that Mr. Fuller was not to come to the valley of the M ounta ins, but he was to prepare the way for his family to come. It seeme d impo ssible for the widow to pull up stakes and leave until she could d ispos e of her property. Four of the children were in school and the onl y thin g to do was to be patient until conditions were such that she coul d leave . Mrs. Fuller would never allow herself to become discouraged--ev er havin g faith in her Patriarchal blessing which was given by her grand father, A sahel Smith, in which she was promised that she would live to s ee her chi ldren gathered to the Valleys of the Mountains. During the tim e the wido w was making preparations to leave, the two older children, Je sse Jr. an d Mary Adelia, were married. Early in 1856 she sold her property and on June 3 they bade farewell t o t he old home and commenced the long journey. Jesse Jr. and his young w if e came with the family, but Mary Adelia remained with her husband in D e s Moines for a little while longer. Twenty miles from home was the fir s t stop the family made, and their hearts were filled with joy and thank sg iving to God for his blessings, for they knew they were now really o n the ir way to Zion. They had two wagons, four yoke of oxen, a two-seate d bugg y and two horses for the mother and children, and a wagon and tw o horse s for Jesse Jr. and his wife. There was a young widow named Emil y Parkin s who came with the family and was a great help to the mother an d littl e ones. She lived with the family until she married again, whic h was a fe w months after reaching Utah. They drove into Salt Lake Valley on August 17, 1856. Elias Smith, her un c le, and probate judge in Salt Lake for many years, met the family at t h e mouth of Immigration Canyon and took them to his home, where they we r e made comfortable until they found a place in which to move, locate d a l ittle north of the Temple block on West Temple Street, just one-hal f bloc k from the uncle's home. The family was comfortable and happy her e for th ree months when the mother took sick and died on October 31, 185 6, leavin g five children in the care of the older brother Jesse . In February 1857 Jesse Jr. and wife brought the children to Provo, whe r e he found employment in a blacksmith shop. They lived in a little hom e o n South, Fifth West. All went well for seven months when death visite d th e family once more and took two from them. September 3 the young wif e die d and the following day Esther Victoria, the nine year-old sister , was ca lled home. The funeral and burial were the same day. This left f our broth ers and the sister, Sophina A. who was thirteen years old, grie f stricke n and lonely. The next summer on the 24th of July Sophina A. went to Salt Lake to li v e with her Uncle Elias’ family. She was now 14 years old, the age whe n al l girls need the loving care of a mother, and she received it from h er Au nt Lucy Smith, who was a mother in very deed. She attended school , learne d to spin and weave and knit, and helped with the household duti es and th us her life went on until the day before she was nineteen year s old whe n she was married to George Washington Gee on the fourth of Ma y 1862 in S alt Lake City. The ceremony was performed by the Uncle, Judge Elias Smith. The endowme n t house had not been furnished long and the older people had first priv il eges of endowments and sealings, so this couple had to wait but thei r opp ortunity came the following December 16th, and so all of their chil dren w ere born under the Everlasting Covenant, Her husband came to Uta h with hi s widowed mother in the year 1851. His father having died whil e on a miss ion when the baby George W. was only a few months old, leavin g George W . II with his mother to struggle alone. In 1857 when Johnson's Army invaded Utah and the Saints made preparatio n s to leave Salt Lake and move to other localities, George W. and his mo th er came to Provo to make their home. The day after George and Sophina were married and it was the bride's bir t hday, they loaded her belongings, said goodbye to dear ones in Salt La k e City, and started for Provo where they were to make their future hom e . They left about noon in a wagon drawn by horses and when night came t he y were about half way. They drove out to the side of the road, had sup pe r and made camp for the night. It was a beautiful moonlight evening an d t heir hearts were full of love and gratitude for each other and the ma ny b lessings they were enjoying. They reached Provo in time to have thei r noo n meal the following day. Her husband lived with his mother on wha t is no w University Avenue, where the State Bank is located. Mother Ge e lived wi th them until she died sixteen years later . Two years after they were married Mr. Gee built a house on the corne r o f Second North and Fourth East, where all of their children were born . I n the early spring of 1864 the husband was called on a mission, and o n th e 27th of March left for England. Twelve days after he left their fi rst b aby came, a boy, and he was named George Washington III. This littl e on e filled the mother’s heart with joy for eleven months, when he cont racte d Diphtheria and died, leaving sorrow and loneliness in the home, t hat n o one can realize except those who have gone through it . Her husband spent three and a half years in the mission field, being fir s t sent to Sweden where he labored for two years and then returned to En gl and for one and one-half years. I would like to relate a great testimo n y which Mr. Gee received soon after reaching Sweden, He had studied th e l anguage some, but could not speak it very well. When at one of the Su nda y morning meetings, he was prompted to arise and express his feeling s wit h the few words he knew. The words of that language came to him jus t as f ast has he could speak them. His whole being was thrilled with th e spiri t of the Lord, and he spoke very fluently and with great power fo r more t han half an hour. From then on he had no trouble with the langua ge . While Mr. Gee was on his mission his wife managed to keep herself, and o c casionally send a few dollars to her husband. The first winter she car e d for a motherless boy six years old. His name was Jackman. His fathe r pa yed for his care. Then she cared for an invalid woman for several mo nths . Then the next season a schoolteacher boarded with her, and the las t win ter she taught school. This, with sewing, knitting and mending sh e did fo r others, and the help of kind neighbors who never forgot her, s he manage d very nicely. She has always thanked her Heavenly Father for h is goodnes s to her. Mr. Gee returned in September 1867. On June 29, 1868 their second baby w a s born, a boy, who was named Elias Amos. Just one week before this bab y w as born, President Heber C. Kimball organized the Relief Society in t he P rovo Fourth Ward and Mrs. Gee was called to be one of the teachers , and i n three months after was appointed Secretary, which she held unti l her th ird baby, a girl, was born on December 15, 1869. She was named G eorgiana. After this Mrs. Gee was not active in the organization for several year s , for her family cares increased, and she was not strong physically, a n d she always considered her home and family her first responsibility. B u t after her last baby, Adelia May, was born she resumed her labors in t h e Church organizations. She was Secretary of the Provo Fourth Ward Prim ar y for several years. Then she was President of the Provo Fourth Ward P rim ary, this position she held for ten years, and Acting Stake Secretar y o f Primary for five years during the same period. When the Fourth War d wa s divided she was released from these duties and called to be a teac her i n the Relief Society of the Fifth Ward. Here she served faithfull y and we ll for many years. She was also appointed special missionary o r teacher i n the Relief Society, visiting the families in the entire war d once eac h year, giving advice and urging all to affiliate with the org anizations , then reporting conditions to the President. But her specia l calling see med to be among the sick and in the homes of sorrow, givin g comfort and a id-to those who were grief stricken, laying out and makin g clothing, an d preparing for burial for those who had passed away. Sh e was splendid a t making clothing for the dead and especially the, Templ e clothing, makin g entire suits for Temple, prayer circle and burial pur poses. Her work wa s not confined to one ward or one stake, but she had m ade hundreds of Tem ple aprons and many entire suits for people in many s takes of the Church. She has been active to some extent in civil affairs in the community, al w ays deeming it a privilege to use her franchise, she was one of the fir s t group of women to work for woman suffrage in Utah. She is the mothe r o f ten children, three boys and seven girls, nine of whom she has rais ed t o man and womanhood, and all beginning married life right by going t hroug h the Temple. She has 46 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren t o date , one son and three grandsons who have filled honorable missions . One gra ndson having died after his honorable release in the Hawaiian I slands, an d before he left his field of labor for home. With all the joys, sorrow and hardships of 84 years she is still very ke e n of intellect and strong in the faith of her fathers, and her greates t d esire is that her posterity will never cease to have that abiding fai th a nd hope to magnify their callings as sons and daughters in the Churc h o f Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She died December 26, 1930 in Salt Lake City, at the time of her death s h e was survived by seven children, thirty-seven grandchildren, and twent y- seven great grandchildren.	Fuller, Sophina Alcesta (I51145)
1874	Obituary: Willa Jost passed peacefully on May 21, 2013, in DeSoto, Texas, surround e d by her loved ones, in the family home she and her husband built wit h th eir own hands and where she has lived since 1948. She married Leonar d Jos t on September 2, 1939, who preceded her in death in 1997. Willa worked many years as office manager for Bond Clothing. She was a d e voted wife, mother, and friend, who always put others first. She was a n a ccomplished and self-taught seams tress who made clothes for her chil dren , a wedding dress without a pattern, and elaborate Christmas stockin gs fo r each member of the family that will forever be cherished. She enj oyed c rocheting and ceramics and was always eager to learn new things. S he wa s an avid reader, loved her Kindle, and sometimes would start and f inis h a book in a day. She was a proficient crossword puzzle worker. A member of Hampton Road Baptist Church in DeSoto since 1948, she was t h e embodiment of a faithful Christian. She was the beacon, the anchor, a n d the nucleus of our family. Our lives will be eternally enriched by t h e memory of her love. She is survived by her son: Gary Jost; daughter s an d sons-in-law: Judy and Jerry Gallagher, Janet and John Thach, Lind a an d Charles Sanders; grandchildren: Jeffrey Dickens, Lisa Ellrich, Chr is Da ugherty, Amy Newlin, Gary Sanders, Craig Daugherty, Von Gallagher , and Ja mie MacCloskey; 15 great grandchildren; brother, Julian Dodson ; former da ughter-in-law, Phyl Jost; and numerous nieces and nephews. Wi lla is als o survived by her loyal friend, Ima Moody, and her devoted car etaker, Ton ya Dollison. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday, May 2 3 , 2013 from 5-7:00 pm. Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 24 , a t 1:00 pm in the Chapel of West/Hurtt Funeral Home with Dr. Jerry R . Rain es officiating. Interment will follow in Laurel Land Memorial Park , Dalla s, Texas. www.west-hurttfuneralhome.com	Dodson, Willa Nell (I69047)
1875	Obituary: William Brent “Bill” Bush, 57, of Idaho Falls, died of a heart attack, S u nday, July 26, 2015, surrounded by family and friends at Redfish Lake , hi s favorite place on earth, near Stanley, Idaho. Bill was born August 9, 1957, to William Frank Bush and Shirley Anders o n Bush. He grew up in the Idaho Falls area. He was second oldest in a l ar ge family of eight children and graduated from Bonneville High Schoo l i n 1975. Bill also graduated from School of Hard Knocks obtaining a “P hD , if you ask me”! Following high school, Bill served a mission for the Church of Jesus Chr i st of Latter-day Saints in Sevilla, Spain. He also served as scoutmaste r , pianist, Sunday school teacher, executive secretary and numerous oth e r callings. At the time of his death, he served as second counselor i n th e Iona 7th Ward Bishopric. He married Teresa Crook, August 10, 1979, in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. After working in various sales positions, he started an insurance agenc y , which he ran for more than 30 years. Bill enjoyed playing the piano and the keyboard in bands, woodworking, h o me improvement, motorcycling, camping and his family. He was perfect i n a ll that truly mattered. Bill was a fierce protector of his family, ye t h e lived to make others happy and laugh. Bill would never want others to mourn too long, but celebrate his life a n d pay it forward by making others laugh … and do the chicken dance! Survivors include his wife Teresa Bush of Idaho Falls; sons, Billy (Tony a ) of Salt Lake City, UT, Jordan (Lindsey) of Idaho Falls, and Chase (cu rr ently serving the LDS church in the Brazil Sao Paulo East Mission); hi s m other, Shirley Bush Madsen; siblings, Scott (Connie) Bush of Ogden, U T, S hannon (Brooks) Clements of Pasco, WA, Melodee (Curt) Mueller of Rex burg , Shane (Peggy) Bush of Idaho Falls, and Brian (Janet) Bush of Shell ey; g randsons, Camden, 5, Hendrix, 2, and Hank, 1; and many close friend s an d family members. Bill was preceded in death by his father, William Frank Bush; sisters, L i nda Benson Gilbert and Gina Michelle Bush; and his brother, Galen Shaw n B ush. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Iona LDS 7th Ch a pel, 1040 N. Crimson Dr. in Idaho Falls with Bishop Richard Williamso n of ficiating. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., We dnesd ay at Coltrin Mortuary, 2100 1st St. Idaho Falls, and from 10 a.m . to 10: 45 a.m., prior to the service at the church. Interment will foll ow in th e Iona Cemetery. The family is requesting that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made t o C hase's LDS mission fund. Donations can be made to the Iona 7th Ward i n ca re of Chase Bush and sent to Bishop Richard Williamson, 4755 Wind Ri ver R oad, Idaho Falls, ID, 83401. Condolences may be sent online at www. coltri nmortuary.com	Bush, William Brent (I127858)
1876	Obituary: William Grant Black was a prominent church and civic leader of central a n d southern Utah. He received his education in Nephi schools. When a young man William learned the milling business. He constructed th r ee mills at Fruitland, New Mexico, Round Valley and St. Johns Arizona . H e also hauled the first merchandise by them from Albuquerque, New Mex ico , then the railroad terminal, to St. Johns. During one of these trip s h e was attacked by Indians and barely escaped with his life. He also h elpe d to build the railroad through Arizona. He served as bishop's counselor to three bishops for a period of 14 year s ; was superintendent of Sunday Schools for many years and also ward cho ri ster. He was a member of the high council and high priest at time of d eat h. He was prominent in civic affairs in San Juan County, serving as count y a ssessor, treasurer and justice of the peace for many years.	Black, William Grant (I160426)
1877	Obituary: William Heber was born 1 December 1855 in Provo, Utah. He graduated fr o m the eighth grade in the Provo City Schools. He married Blanche Whipp l e 6 April 1880. They were the parents of eight children: (1) Elsie bo r n 12 January 1881, married John Javaine, (2) Mary Ellander born 15 Jan ua ry 1883, married Byron Clark, (3) William Heber born 13 June 1886, die d y oung, (4) Ralph R., born 27 Nov 1889, married Florence Jones, (5) Haz el D ell, born 31 May 1892, married Ara C. Davis, (6) Edson LeRoy Donal d H. bo rn9 July 1889, married Myrl Hansen. William built his first home on Seventh West and Fifth South across th e s treet from the home of his parents in the Provo Second Ward. Willia m an d his new bride moved into this home on 6 April 1880, their weddin g day . Later, he built at 12th West and 6th South. The children rememb er th e happy childhood days in this home on the road to the old communit y “Sou th Pasture” where the cows in the neighborhood were turned into th e lan e each morning and driven to the pasture, and returned in the eveni ng. T his was the “event” of the day. The children remember the summer of 1888 when typhoid fever claimed th e l ife of William Heber Jr. The water in the surface well became contam inat ed, their mother and the three older children were seriously ill wit h th e fever. After William’s death Dr. Pike, the family physician and o nly d octor around at that time, advised Heber to take his family to th e mounta ins to help speed their recovery. With the family cow tied to t he wago n loaded with provisions, they went to the head of the Provo Rive r, now c alled “Mirror Lake”. Heber found employment with a logging comp any. H e chopped timber and floated it down the river to the sawmills . He worke d there all summer, returning in the fall with a well, happ y family and m oney for a substantial payment on the farm . The farm consisted of forty acres and was purchased in 1886. It had a s p ring of water that measured 3 ½ gallons per minute, and it is still run ni ng. During the summer they lived in a log cabin on the farm and move d t o town for the winter. In 1905 they built the home on the farm now o wne d by their son Roy. They raised peaches and sugar beets. This far m cons isted of 68 acres and was later sold to their son-in-law Ara Davi s . In 1921 they retired, moved to Provo, built a home on 7th West and Cente r , where they spent their remaining years. William Heber died 24 Octob e r 1937 of causes incidental to age. Blanche Whipple Stubbs died 13 Dec em ber 1936 at Provo, Utah of cerebral hemorrhage. Both are buried in Pr ov o City Cemetery Block 4, Lot 80 east of First East between Third and F our th North. The descendants of this good man and wife, all members o f th e Church, number 8 children, 20 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildre n i n this year of 1864. Informant Hazell Stubbs Davis.	Stubbs, William Heber (I158769)
1878	Obituary: William Silvester was born 16 August 1903 in Plymouth Utah, located in B o x Elder County in the United States. His father Fredrick Arthur Silvest e r had immigrated to America from England when he was only seven years o ld . William’s mother Alvira Bigler was born in Farmington Utah. Willia m wa s the first of thirteen children born to Fredrick and Alvira, he ha d si x sisters and six brothers; Leland, Violet, Maria, Edward, Lily, Nin a, Al len, Dale, Daniel, Wendell, Arlene, and Leah. He grew up on a far m in Ply mouth where his father worked. At the age of twenty-three, William married his wife Alice Lenore Hess a g e twenty on the twenty-second of September 1926 in Brigham City, Utah . Th ey started their family in Plymouth and lived there for over ten yea rs. T he next year they had a little boy Jay W who died ten days later . A yea r later their first daughter Peggy Ann was born, then Clarence F , and San dra. William had been working on a farm as a laborer and in 193 0 they pai d $4 a month for rent. In 1936 William and Lenore purchase d a house value d at $400 in Riverside Utah and were also sealed in the L ogan Temple th e same year. William changed jobs from the farm industry t o road construc tion, at first he drove a team of horses with a scraper t o move gravel. S oon they added three more boys to their family Kyle, Wil liam H, and Ne d H He worked for Box Elder County for 15 years. William w as then hired b y Gerner, Abbot, and Waldren construction running a roa d grader, he spen t time away from the home building roads all over Uta h and Idaho as the f inishing grader. Sometimes the family would go wit h him when he was worki ng away from home. On the 8th of November 1973, William died in Riverside Utah at his hom e . At the time of his death, he had twenty-five grandchildren and thre e gr eat-grandchildren. He was buried at Plymouth Cemetery on November 12 th, 1 973.	Silvester, William (I159403)
1879	Obituary: Wilma Bernice Whipple Hash, our beloved mother, grandmother and great gr a ndmother passed away Monday, February 6, 2006 at Parkwood Assisted Livi n g Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She lived there for the last three year s . Our family wants to thank Parkwood for their love and care of Wilma . Wilma was born in Salt Lake City on October 12, 1919. She was raised a n d attended schools in Salt Lake City. Wilma graduated from the U of U a n d served an LDS mission to Canada. She also served in the Air Force whe r e she met C. Lee Hash. They married and had three children, Kathy, Dav i d and Diane, later divorced. She was a volunteer for the literacy program of Salt Lake City and a vol u nteer at the V.A. hospital. Wilma is survived by her three children and their spouses, grandchildr e n and great grandchildren, brother, and sister. She is preceded in dea t h by her parents, brother, Kenneth Whipple and sister, Donna Sylvies . We want to thank Diane and her family for their love and care of Wilma f o r the past 11 years. Services will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 11:00 am at Redw o od Memorial Mortuary with visitation at 10:00 am day of service. In li e u of flowers please make a donation to your favorite charity. Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 9, 2006	Whipple, Wilma Bernice (I20816)
1880	Obituary: With her loving husband, Wesley, by her side, Mary Ellen Larson Sulliva n , age 74, passed away on September 5, 2007, after a long and courageou s b attle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Mary was born June 7, 1933, i n St . George, Utah, a daughter of Reuben and Rose Beacham Larson . Mary grew up in St. George, Utah, where she spent a happy childhood on h e r father's farm in Bloomington. She attended Dixie High School and w a s a waitress at the Big Hand Cafe. She was part of the Lions Dixie Roun du p Royalty in 1949. On July 22, 1951, Wes and Mary were married in Hend ers on, Nevada, and went on to live in Cedar City, Utah where they had th ei r son, Michael and daughter, Colette. Later, son, Donald, was born i n St . George, Utah, and their daughter, Teresa, was born in Casper, Wyom ing . Mary's fondest memories were when she was living in a sheep wagon o n th e Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, while raising three small children , as W es sheared sheep. Mary Ellen and Wes traveled and hiked their wa y through out Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. Her favorite summer was spent f ollowing t he Lewis and Clark Trail. While living in Las Vegas, Mary join ed a cerami cs club and discovered she had quite a flair. She loved cros s stitching , crocheting, and quilting and made many beautiful pictures a nd quilts fo r her children and grandchildren. After retiring from the Cl ark County Sc hool District, Mary spent countless hours searching her fam ily's genealog y and making genealogy books for her children. Mary alway s took tremendou s pride in her grandchildren and was always attending co ncerts, ball game s, plays, and whatever activities with which they wer e involved.	Larson, Mary Ellen (I154764)
1881	Obituary: Yvonne Bushnell Melville "Our Forever Sweetheart" Yvonne passed away Dec e mber 7, 2003 in Fillmore, UT. She was born January 4, 193 7 in Flowell , U tah to Joseph Avon and Hazel Ruby Bushnell. Sadness came to Yvonne a t th e early passing of her mother Hazel just five years later on Yvonne' s bir thday. Yvonne and her three sisters were raised by various caring f amil y members. Through this period of her life she learned the strengt h and l ove of family for many aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters and cousi ns. Sh e grew very fond of her aunt Beth and children, Connie and Nolan T aylor. Yvonne later met Ross D. Melville at Millard High and became high scho o l sweethearts. She graduated in 1955. Because of their love of the gosp e l of Jesus Christ they chose to marry in the Manti LDS Temple. Yvonne w a s a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, s er ving as president in the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women's organi zat ion and many other church callings. Yvonne and Ross served a short se rvic e mission at Cove Fort, Utah. She tried so hard. Yvonne is a testame nt o f love, kindness, and service to God and family. She loved so many ! Survi vors include her husband, Ross David Melville (48 years); childre n, Lann y (Marian) Melville Salt Lake, Stephanie (Kevin) Middaugh, Salt L ake, Dar win (Maria) Melville, Salt Lake, Edwin (Regina) Melville, Salt L ake, Marc us (Mary) Melville of Aurora, CO, Isaac (Kim) Melville of SLC ; foster dau ghter, Linda (Ned) Johnson of Crownpoint, NM; 23 grandchildr en; two great -grandchildren; step-mother, Lessie Bushnell of Tooele; sis ters, Beverl y (Delbert) Taylor, Marlene (Ross) Peterson, Colleen Holcom b and Bonita ; brother, Dr. Lowry (Becky) Bushnell. She is preceded in de ath by her mo ther Hazel Ruby Bushnell and father Joseph Avon Bushnell; h er baby boy, B yron Dirk Melville and grandson, Michael Scott Middaugh. Funeral services will be Saturday, December 13, 2003 at 12:00 noon at t h e Fillmore LDS First Ward, Fillmore, UT. The family will receive frien d s Friday from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Olpin Southern Utah Mortuary (55 Wes t 20 0 South), and also Saturday, 10:00 to 11:30 A M prior to the funeral .	Bushnell, Yvonne (I25785)
1882	Obituary: Yvonne Nebeker Barton, 66, passed away February 16, 2014, in Richfield . She was born February 28, 1947 in San Pedro, California to Garn B. and M a rian Bracken Nebeker. She married Melvin Curt Richins, later divorced . She married Daniel Keith Barton, later divorced . This morning God created a new angel to live with Him. We lost our bes t f riend, our rock and our biggest supporter. She loved us no matter ou r stu pid or ornery we got, and was always there for us, when we needed h er. W e can't believe she is gone—it doesn't seem real, but we know she w ill b e watching over us and help us get through this, somehow. She is lo st, bu t never forgotten. We love you so much, Mom. Miss you already. Always in our heart, alway s i n our mind. She is survived by her children; 9 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildr e n; siblings. Preceded in death by her parents. Cremation services have been held . Private family memorial services will be held at a later date . Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti.	Nebeker, Yvonne (I155174)
1883	Obituary: Zelda Dunkley Taylor returned to her Father in Heaven on January 7, 201 0 . As a result of a long and courageous battle with kidney failure. Sh e sp ent nearly ninety-two years on this earth fulfilling that part of th e pla n of life and salvation in which she believed so implicitly. She lo ved th e Lord and served him and kept his commandments to the end. Zelda was born to Lester and Rosella Dunkley on July 2, 1918. She was ra i sed in Whitney, Idaho, where she met and married her high school sweeth ea rt, Ross Jay Taylor. Their marriage was solemnized in the Logan Utah L D S Temple on June 18, 1941. Zelda is the mother of two children, Scott R. Taylor, and Linda Lee Bill s . Her daughter Linda preceded her in death, and is survived by S. Geor g e Bills, and four children, Scott (Julie) Bills, Lisa (Jeff) Porter, Er i c (Marissa) Bills, and Laura (Blake) Heringer. Zelda also leaves behin d t hree other grandchildren, Jeremy (Twila) Taylor, Jared (Amy) Taylor , an d Justin (Sunny) Taylor. In addition to her grandchildren, Zelda lea ves b ehind fifteen great-grandchildren. Zelda was preceded in death by h er par ents, an older brother Mack Dunkley, and her sister Eunice Perry . Now Zel da and her daughter Linda will serve together as guardian angel s over the ir loved ones left behind. Zelda was a perfect example of a loving devoted faithful wife, mother, g r andmother, and great-grandmother. Her entire life was lived to be an ex pr ession of her love for her husband and family, and to be a good role m ode l to them all. Throughout her married life Zelda supported and encour age d her husband wherever his work took them during a forty-two-year car ee r with the Boy Scouts of America. Wherever they lived and served, Zeld a w as a great friend and homemaker. She cherished the lives of all wit h who m she shared her talents to build strong, life-long friendships. Throughout her life, Zelda has been an active faithful member of The Chu r ch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She served in many callings a n d experienced personal rewards from her service in the Relief Society a n d Primary organizations. Following retirement in June of 1983, Zelda a n d Ross were called to serve an eighteen-month mission for the church a s D irector and Hostess of the Oakland, California LDS Temple visitor's c ente r. Together, they also served missions at the Joseph Smith Memoria l Build ing in Salt Lake City, and the Missionary Training Center in Prov o, Utah. Zelda was best known and loved among all who knew her for her goodness , h igh moral values, and her constant cheerful attitude and countenance . Whe rever and whenever she was among other people she created an atmosp here o f joviality, fun, and good feelings. Zelda was always smiling. Sh e lov e d life, and will take this virtue with her to the other side. Zelda is survived by her husband Ross J. Taylor, son Scott R. (Debra) Ta y lor, sister Francine (Glenn) Oliverson, and her brother Blaine Dunkley. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 20 1 0 in the Grandview Sixteenth Ward Chapel, 1260 West 1150 North, Provo , Ut ah. Friends may call at the Ward Chapel on Tuesday from 10:00 to 10: 45 a. m. Interment will be held in the Whitney City Cemetery in Whitney, Idah o o n Tuesday, January 12, 2010.	Dunkley, Zelda (I35288)
1884	Obituary: “The Herald”, Provo, Utah, Friday, June 16, 1978, page 4: Ray F. Davis, 8 5, of Provo, died Thursday, June 15, 1978 in the Fairview Convalescent Ho me of causes incident to age. He was born March 23, 1893 in Provo, a so n of Dennis J. and Ada Draper Davis. He was a retired farmer. Mr. Davis w as a member of the Grandview LDS Ward in Provo in his younger years. A ve teran of World War I. Mr. Davis was active in the American Legion. Surviv ors include 20 nieces and nephews and one sister, Mrs. Mertis Weeter, Oce anside, Calif. One sister and three brothers preceded him in death. Funer al services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Berg Mortuary in Provo, wh ere friends may call one hour prior to services. Burial will be in Prov o City Cemetery under the direction of Holbrook Funeral Home of Salt Lak e City. Obituary: “The Herald”, Provo, Utah, Friday, June 16, 1978, page 4: Ray F . Davis, 85, of Provo, died Thursday, June 15, 1978 in the Fairview Conva lescent Home of causes incident to age. He was born March 23, 1893 in Pro vo, a son of Dennis J. and Ada Draper Davis. He was a retired farmer. Mr . Davis was a member of the Grandview LDS Ward in Provo in his younger ye ars. A veteran of World War I. Mr. Davis was active in the American Legio n. Survivors include 20 nieces and nephews and one sister, Mrs. Mertis We eter, Oceanside, Calif. One sister and three brothers preceded him in dea th. Funeral services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Berg Mortuary i n Provo, where friends may call one hour prior to services. Burial will b e in Provo City Cemetery under the direction of Holbrook Funeral Home o f Salt Lake City.	Davis, Ray F (I158863)
1885	Obituary: “The Salt Lake Tribune”, Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, August 5, 1957, pa ge 27: HELPER - Mrs. Meirl Ada Benedict, 58, 296 Railroad Ave., died Sund ay, 7:30 a.m., after a short illness. Born July 24, 1899, Provo, to Denni s J. and Ada Draper Davis. Married to Forrest T. Benedict, Feb. 20, 1923 , in Ogden. They moved to Helper in 1930, where he works as an engineer f or D&RGW. Member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Survivors : husband, son, daughter, Earl Forrest, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Robert (Oliv e) Meirl Anderson, both of Salt Lake City; one granddaughter; three broth ers, sister. Funeral Wednesday, 1:30 p.m., Helper Ward Chapel. Friends ca ll at Mitchell Funeral Home, Price until Wednesday noon and at church pri or. Burial Provo City Cemetery.	Davis, Meirl Ada (I158865)
1886	Obituary: The Deseret News November 12, 1991 page B4 Josie Mae Houmand, 84, beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmothe r , died Nov. 10, 1991. Born May 17, 1907 in Murray, Utah to Edward Lee and Eliza Mae Holden Hor r . Josie married Holger John Houmand in the Salt Lake LDS Temple Nov. 3 0 , 1928; he preceded her in death Nov. 23, 1973. Josie was a member of t h e LDS Church and a resident of Midvale and Sandy. Survivors: sons, Jay Houmand and wife, Carmen; Don Houmand and wife, Kar e n, all Sandy; six grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Preceded i n d eath by brothers, Hurley, Leffel, Seth and Don Carlos; sisters, Goldi e Wa yne, Myrtle and Merl Horr. Public graveside services will be held Wednesday, November 13, 1991, 1 p . m. in the Midvale City Cemetery 450 West 7500 South. Goff Mortuary, Fun er al Directors.	Horr, Josie May (I173622)
1887	Obituary: "Deseret News", December 19, 1993, Page B9 June B. Johnson, 70, died December 17, 1993 in Fillmore. She was born Ju n e 27, 1923 in Meadow, Utah to Howard J. and Violet Stewart Bennett. Sh e m arried F. Glade Johnson June 21, 1948 in the Manti LDS Temple. She se rve d in many church callings in the LDS Church. She was a devoted wife , moth er, grandmother and a friend to all. Survived by her husband of Flowell; sons, Lyle (Jill), Garland, Utah; R o y (Patsy), Fillmore; seven grandchildren; twin sister, Joy Greenwood, A me rican Fork. She was preceded in death by an infant son. Funeral services will be held Monday, December 20, 1993 at 11 a.m. in t h e Flowell LDS Ward Chapel, where friends may call one and one-half hou r s before services. Burial will take place in the Meadow Cemetery unde r th e direction of the Olpin Mortuary of Fillmore.	Bennett, June (I4832)
1888	Obituary: "Millard County Chronicle" 12/17/1942 MRS. STEWART DIES - Mary Jennett Duncan Stewart, 88, of Meadow, died a t 1 1 o'clock, Wednesday, Dec. 16, at her home after an illness of five w eek s duration. Mrs. Stewart was born April 15, 1854 in Fillmore, daughte r o f James Duncan and Jennett Sneddon. Married to James M. Stewart, a me mbe r of the Martin Hand cart Co., in December 1873 in the Endowment Hous e i n Salt Lake. Surviving is her sister, Elizabeth, who is also a wife of James M. Stewa r t and a brother John Duncan of Salt Lake City and eight children, Neph i a nd George of Hinckley, Mrs. W.E. Davis of Lehi, Duncan of Ogden and M rs . Heber W. Beckstrand, Ephraim, Clifford and Angus of Meadow. She ha s 7 5 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will b e hel d Sunday at 2 o'clock at Meadow ward.	Duncan, Mary Jennett (I6452)
1889	Obituary: "Millard County Progress" Published 10/28/1938 LAST RITES CO N DUCTED FOR PETER W. PEARSON. Funeral services were condu c ted in the Meadow Ward Sunday, Oct. 23, at one p.m. for Peter W. Pearso n , long time resident of Meadow, who died at the home of his daughter, M rs . Annie Larson, in Salt Lake City, October 19th of causes incident t o age . Mr. Pearson was born in Sweden 90 years ago last August 28th. A b irthda y party was held for him on the ninetieth birthday, at which tim e he wa s enjoying fairly good health. Mr. Pearson was married in Swede n and al l but his two youngest children were born there. He and his fami ly were c onverted to the gospel by Brother John A. Beckstrand. His wif e preceded h im in death by about six years, since which time he has spen t most of th e time in Salt Lake with his three daughters who live in Sal t Lake. He is survived by the following children: Mrs. Sigurd Bird, Hatton, Uta h ; Emil Pearson, Delta; Mrs. Hilma Stewart, Hinckley, Peter W. Pearson , Me adow; Mrs. Annie Larson, Mrs. Carrie Christensen, Mrs. Emma Stewart , Sal t Lake City and Mr. A.E. Pearson, Midvale. Bishop Milton Beckstran d condu cted the services at which Edwin Stott offered the opening prayer , John A . Beckstrand, J.J. Bennett and a Mr. Paxton were the speakers. M usical nu mbers were furnished by the Meadow Ward and by visiting relativ es. Charle s Swallow pronounced the benediction and the grave was dedicat ed by Howar d Bushnell. Six grandsons, from different families acted as p all bearers . A large and beautiful floral offering testified to the este em in whic h Mr. Pearson and his family were held in the various communit ies in whic h they lived.	Pearson, Peter (I34337)
1890	Obituary: "Millard County Progress" Published 9/30/1938 FUNERAL SERVIC E S HELD FOR LITTLE HARRY A. JOHNSON, JR. - Funeral serv i ces were conducted in the Meadow Ward Church, Tuesday, Sept. 27th, und e r the direction of the Flowell Bishopric for little Harry A. Johnson, J r. , eight months old son of J. Avalon and Agnes Oral Johnson of Flowell . Th e baby was born January 19, 1938, and died Sept. 25, death being du e to p neumonia and intestinal flu. He is survived by his parents, one si ster, R ayma, by his grandparents on both sides, Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Jo hnson an d Mr. and Mrs. Wells Johnson, also by great-grandparents, Mrs. S tephenso n of Holden and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson or Provo. The father was ou t near We lls, Nevada, trapping, when the baby was taken ill, but he arri ved home o n Thursday, three days before the little one passed away.	Johnson, Harry A (I33496)
1891	Obituary: "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 128, No 18, p 300, Apr. 29, 1940. Theron Merril Campbell was born in Norwich, Ontario, Canada, September 1 8 , 1869, and departed this life at his home in Hammond, La., March 1, 19 40 . When a young man he came to Hammond, where he was later united in marria g e to Miss Edna Booth, and to this union were born five children - thre e s ons and two daughters. Early in life he became a member of the Hammon d Se venth Day Baptist Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Cam pbell ; four children, Paul and John of Hammond, Mrs. Mary Jones of Kentw ood , L a., and Mrs. Irene Davis of San Fernando, Calif.; twelve grandchi ldre n; one brother, A. B. Campbell of Hammond; and several nieces and ne phews , together with other relatives and a number of friends. Funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. Verney A. Wilson, a n d interment in Green Lawn Cemetery, Hammond.	Campbell, Theron Merril (I78802)
1892	Obituary: Alfred Boyington, 91, retired WSU professor Lewiston Morning T r ibune (ID) \| 6 March 1999 PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Alfred M. Boyington, a retired professor of mus i c and director of orchestra at Washington State University, died Thursd a y in a Palm Desert convalescence center. He was 91. Boyington came to Pullman in 1933 as an instructor of violin and direct o r of orchestra at what was then Washington State College. He was promot e d to assistant professor in 1941. In 1942, he was granted a military le av e during World War II. He resumed his teaching at WSU in 1946 and wa s pro moted to associate professor the same year. During the 1946-47 academic year, he was elevated to the rank of profess o r. He retired in 1973 as professor emeritus of music. Throughout his professional career at WSU, he taught violin and direct e d orchestra. He was born Oct. 17, 1907, to Gertrude Rohrer and Schuyler S. Boyingto n i n Osawatomie, Kan. His father was employed by the Missouri Pacific Ra ilro ad. After graduating from Northeast High School in Kansas City, Mo., in 192 5 , Boyington spent two years studying at the Curtis Institute of Musi c i n Philadelphia. Then he was engaged in the private study of music i n Fran ce and Germany for two years. He earned a music degree at the Jull iard Sc hool in New York City in 1933. He Completed a master's of music d egree a t the University of Michigan in 1953. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Earle Boyington of Palm Desert; a n d two sons, Paul S. Boyington of Culver City, Calif., and David M. Boyi ng ton of Vancouver. Copyright, 1999, Lewiston Morning Tribune	Boyington, Alfred Merrill (I152810)
1893	Obituary: Arizona Daily Star, The (Tucson, AZ) \| 27 May 2011 On May 21, 2011, at age 90, Dorothy Graham of Tucson, Arizona left thi s w orld and those who cherished her. Dorothy was preceded in death by he r hu sband of 60 years, Joseph D. Graham. Dorothy also leaves behind he r thre e children, Joseph "Mac" Graham of Tucson, Nancy Graham of San Ant onio, T exas and Thomas Graham of Albuquerque. She also leaves behind si x beautif ul grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her siblings, Ch arles, Vir ginia, Walter, Henry and Paul. Dorothy was a graduate of Marie tta Colleg e in Marietta, Ohio and received her degree in English. She wa s an accomp lished artist and passed this gift on to her children and gra ndchildren . She was born in Sistersville, West Virginia and resided ther e until sh e married Joe in 1947. Joe and Do lived in Ottawa, Illinois mo st of thei r married life and moved to Tucson in 1976 when they retired . Dorothy wa s loved by many for her generosity, compassion, zest for lif e and her ind ependent spirit. She lived an amazing life and one of her f ondest memorie s was traveling from West Virginia to California and bac k with her best f riend Theta when they were in their early 20's. This tr ip inspired her li fe-long love of the desert southwest. Memorial gifts m ay be given in he r memory to Casa de la Luz Foundation or Breast Cance r research. A privat e celebration of her life will be held on Saturday . You were an amazing M om and friend. We all miss you terribly. Arrangem ents by ADAIR FUNERAL HO MES, Avalon Chapel.	McCoy, Dorothy Janet (I162665)
1894	Obituary: August 25, 1929 - March 6, 2013 Ralph C Duncan passed away on March 6, 2013, at age 83. Ralph was bor n i n Fillmore, Utah on August 25, 1929 to Joseph Clem Duncan and Retta L un d Duncan. He graduated from Millard High School in 1948. He was drafted during t h e Korean War and served in the U.S. Army Military Police Force from 19 5 1 - 1953 in Japan. After army duty he drove for the Wycoff Co. Later he worked for the Ut a h State Road Dept. along with his farming on the side. He retired fro m th e state job and then worked full time on his farm. He was an excelle nt we lder skilled at repairing and building new equipment for use on th e farm. Ralph was playful and fun. The 4th and 24th of July holidays "at dawn' s e arly light" were greeted by the sound of the cannon blast – everyon e awok e and celebrated. Ralph is survived by his brother David (Joan) Duncan, Kernersville, NC . P receding him in death were his parents, sister LaVeda, and brothers M elvi n W and Claude L. Funeral services will be held Friday, March 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM at the M e adow Ward LDS Chapel. Friends and family may call at 12 noon prio r t o t h e service. Interment will be in Meadow City Cemetery under th e dire ction of Olpin Stevens Funeral Home, Fillmore, Utah.	Duncan, Ralph Clem (I33569)
1895	Obituary: Birth: Feb. 8, 1935, Death: Jan. 8, 2011 Valeen Beck Turner 75, a lifelong resident of the upper valley died Satu r day, Jan. 8, 2011 at her home in St. Anthony following a lingering illn es s. Valeen was born Feb. 8, 1935 at Parker, Idaho the daughter of Ira and De l ilah Beddes Beck. She grew up in Parker where she attended her elementa r y schooling then St. Anthony High School. She married Hal Theodore Larson on Oct. 18, 1952. They had five childr e n and were later divorced. She married Alfred Junior "Duke" Turner on D ec . 21, 1962. They had two more sons. Their marriage was solemnized in t h e Idaho Falls Temple in l964. They made their home in St. Anthony. Mr . Tu rner died Aug. 23, 2003. Valeen was the bookkeeper at the American Service Station. then worke d a s a clerk for Tony's Mini Market and later on she became a cashier a t Bro ulim's Supermarket and then served as their book keeper. She retire d in l 999. Valeen loved to crochet, camp and spending time with family. Valeen is survived by her children - LaWanna Turner, Curt (Kathi) Turne r , Elva (Donald) Powell, Rick (Lisa) Turner, Frank (Ann) Turner all of S t . Anthony, ID.; Margaret (Frank) Sykes, Blackfoot, ID.; Mike (Lynette ) Tu rner, and Bill (Janice) Turner both of Ashton, ID.; Siblings - Iri s Birch , & Bill Beck both of St. Anthony, Elva Jay, Washington, Patsey O stermill er, Colorado,; Ted Beck, California; Jay Beck. Utah.; 30 Grandch ildren an d 69 Great Grandchildren. Besides her husband and parents, sh e was preced ed in death by two brothers, two sisters and one grandson.	Beck, Valeen (I152245)
1896	Obituary: Cedar City Our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend, Mell E. Ste w art, peacefully returned to his Heavenly Father on Wednesday, April 20 , 2 016 after a 2-year battle with cancer. Mell was beloved by all who knew him and a friend to all he came in cont a ct with. He was born in Meadow, Utah on January 13, 1929, to Iva Dell T ur ner and Ephraim Stewart. He was the 7th of 8 children in their famil y hom e. Mell graduated from Millard High School in 1947, attended Utah S tate U niversity, then later attended Los Angeles Barber College at whic h time h e graduated as a Master Barber. Mell served his country in the U nited Sta tes Navy from 1950-54 during the Korean War. During his servic e in the Na vy he was given his nickname "The Deac", short for Deacon bec ause of hi s love and devotion for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mell met the love of his life, Florence Mae Woodhouse (Dolly), at a dan c e on the BYU campus and they were later married for time and all eterni t y in the Salt Lake Temple on September 26, 1956. They set up residenc e i n Los Angeles to further his career as a barber until he accepted a u niqu e job opportunity to work as the personal barber for the aviation bi llion aire, Howard Hughes. Later Mell co-authored the New York Times Bes t Selle r, "Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years". He was honored to be invite d to b e a guest on the Johnny Carson Show and Good Morning America in 19 77. Mell later worked for Southern Utah University and considered himsel f " a simple sheep herder from Meadow Creek". Mell and his loving wife Fl or ence have resided in Cedar City, UT for the past 45 years and would ha v e celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this coming September. Mell loved his family with all his heart and soul. He had a love for t h e scriptures, uplifting conversation, classical music, deer hunting, me at , potatoes and gravy. Most of all, grandma's homemade bread. Mell is survived by his devoted wife, Florence Mae Woodhouse, and hi s 4 c hildren Teresa Suhr, Alan (Jan) Stewart, Carla (Kendall) Kelsey, Ro bert ( Charlene) Stewart, 12 grandchildren, 18 ½ great-grandchildren an d his sis ter Glenna Dean Baxter. Mell is preceded in death by his parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters. Me l l will be greatly missed by all those who knew him. Funeral Services will be held Monday, April 25, 2016 at 11:00 am at th e C edar City 9th Ward Chapel, (256 S. 900 W. Cedar City, UT). A viewin g wil l be held on Sunday April 24, 2016 at the Southern Utah Mortuary, ( 190 W . 300 N. Cedar City, UT) from 6:00-8:00 pm and a viewing on Monday , Apri l 25, 2016 from 9:30-10:30 am at the Church. Interment will be i n the Ced ar City Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary . Online co ndolences can be made at www.sumortuary.com The family wishes to thank IHC Hospice for the loving care they provid e d our husband and father in his final days. Published in The Spectrum & Daily News from Apr. 23 to Apr. 24, 2016	Stewart, Mell Ephraim (I35101)
1897	Obituary: Daily Herald Grover Swallow Grover Swallow, 81, of Panaca, Nevada, and formerly of Orem and Provo, U t ah, passed away peacefully Wednesday evening, April 22, 2009 at his hom e . A loving and beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfat he r, he will be greatly missed by his many descendants and friends. Grover grew up in Meadow, Utah and graduated from Millard High Schoo l i n Fillmore, Utah, where he excelled in drama and tennis. He attende d Idah o State University where he obtained his B.S. Pharmacy degree (th e Univer sity of Utah didn't have a School of Pharmacy until the followin g year) . During his freshman year at Idaho State he was the 4-miler an d cross-co untry runner on the track team. He was very active in their LD S Institut e where he was Superintendent of the Sunday School and preside nt of the B eta Chapter of Lambda Delta Sigma fraternity. Grover married Emily Brookie Condie before completing his senior yea r a t Idaho State. Brookie, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was also a pharmacy maj or . They were married in the Manti LDS Temple on September 7, 1948. Grover worked as a pharmacist in Rupert, Idaho, Smithfield, Utah, and Pr e ston and Montpelier, Idaho, until they bought their first drug store i n P ioche, Nevada, in 1957, and then added a second drug store in Calient e, N evada, in 1958. During this time he was very active in church, commu nity , and Lincoln County (Nevada), serving as chairman of the Rural Are a Deve lopment, later changed to Lincoln Area Development. During this ti me th e Eagle Valley and Echo dams were built in Lincoln County. He was c hairma n of the Nevada State Rural Development. He was a member of the Pi oche Li ons Club and later became president of the Caliente Rotary Club , and the n served as the Rotary International Regional Interact Chairman . The regi on extended south through Las Vegas, half of Los Angeles, an d then to th e Mexican border. Grover won a seat in the Nevada State Legislature in 1969, representin g L incoln and White Pine counties for four years, where he served as Cha irma n of the Elections and Educational Committees and Vice Chairman of t he He alth and Welfare Committees. In 1976 Grover purchased a drug store in University Mall in Orem, Utah f r om Walgreens and renamed it Swallows Drugs. They moved to Provo, Utah ( an d then later, Orem), but still kept their store in Caliente. Later the y a dded another store in Layton, Utah. Grover was a former president o f th e University Mall Merchants Association and served as a member of th e Ore m City Council for several years. After closing Swallows Drugs in Layton, and selling Swallows Drugs in Or e m in 1994, and after all their children were married, Grover and Brook i e returned to Lincoln County, Nevada, and ran their store in Caliente u nt il selling it in 2001 and finally retiring. They built a lovely new re tir ement home in Panaca, which they still own, and where Grover passed a wa y on April 22, 2009. Grover was an active member of the LDS Church, having served faithfull y i n many callings, including Superintendent of the Uvada (later Enterpr ise , Utah) Stake Sunday School, Uvada Stake High Council, Second Counsel or i n the Uvada Stake Presidency, bishop of the BYU 89th Ward, Second Co unsel or in the Grandview Stake Presidency, BYU 3rd Stake High Council , m ember s hip clerk, High Priests Group Leader, Ward Missionary, and Wa rd Histori an. Grover is survived by his spouse, E. Brookie Condie Swallow of Panaca, N e vada, and by his 10 children, C. Thomas Swallow of Los Angeles, Califor ni a, Dana Hill (Mike) of South Jordan, Utah, Brookie Cay Swallow of Pana ca , Nevada, Vanda Haynes (Hyrum) of Orem, Utah, Roxanne Probst (Marc) o f Sa lt Lake City, Utah, J. Bruce Swallow (Cindy) of Johnston, Iowa, Emil y Mus e (Derek) of Holladay, Utah, Dorcas Rushton (Troy) of Ashland, Mass achuse tts, Grover M. Swallow (Amber Mackey) of Hawthorne, New Jersey, an d Diann a Hall (Dale) of Pleasant Grove, Utah, a sister Shirley Gotchy (S tan, dec eased) of Sunset, Utah, and 47 grandchildren and 21 great-grandc hildren . He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas C. and Vanda D . Swallo w of Meadow, Utah, his brother Chad Swallow (Norma, surviving) o f Kaysvil le, Utah, and his sisters Opal Jones (Lynn) of Murray, Utah, a n d Thera R oss (Sheldon, surviving) of Reno, Nevada. Even though he is greatly missed, Grover is now finally serving the miss i on he longed for. Funeral services will be held Monday, April 27 at 11: 0 0 am in the Panaca, Nevada LDS Stake Center, preceded by a viewing at 9 :3 0 am. .	Swallow, Grover (I20198)
1898	Obituary: Deanna Duncan Edwards Was born in Centerville, UT Januar y 2 9 , 1938 to Gerald Duncan and Gladys Carlos. She passed away surround ed b y loving family Saturday, November 28, 2009. She was raised in Centerville, UT and was a graduate of Davis High Schoo l . After High School Deanna served her country in the United States Mari n e Corps with an honorable discharge in 1959. She married Val Dean Edwards March 23, 1963. Together they raised 2 Daug h ters and 2 Sons in Meadow, UT. Wendy Belle, Kelly Dean, Jody Val and A m y Lue. Later in life Deanna chose again to serve, this time in the medical fie l d of nursing. She is a retiree of IHC. After her children were raised she followed them to Cedar City, UT, whe r e she continued to serve as the most amazing Grandma ever. Her Grandchi ld ren brought her such joy and happiness. Deanna's children and Grandchi ldr en meant everything to her. She was so proud of their accomplishments . Sh e was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints an d lov ed serving in various callings. She is survived by her 4 children; Wendy Belle (Connie), Kelly Dean (Kel l y), Jody Val (Joyce), Amy Lue (Josh). 6 Grand-daughters and 2 Grandson s , as well as her Brothers and their Spouses. She is preceded in death by her Parents, and a Son Ronald Arlyn. Many thanks to Southern Utah Home Health Care and Hospice, Iron County E M S, Valley View Medical Center Emergency staff and the Marine Corps Leag u e of Utah. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, December 3, 2009 in the Cedar Ci t y 6th Ward Chapel (1650 West Center). Interment will be in the Meadow C it y Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Swindlehurst Funeral Home, Beave r a nd Cedar City.	Duncan, Deanna (I33558)
1899	Obituary: Deseret News from 22 February 2012 Don Robert Ballif passed away on 18 February 2012 in Bountiful, Utah, su r rounded by his family. He was 79 years old. He was a loving husband, fa th er, grandfather, brother and friend. Don was born in Logan, Utah to Serge Chadwick and Ina Terrel Ballif. H e m arried his sweetheart, Mary LaNece Weber in 1951 in the Logan, Utah T empl e. He was an active member of the LDS Church and served three churc h miss ions: The first to France in 1953, and the other two to Kirtland , Ohio, i n 2000 and 2003, with his wife and best friend, LaNece. Don was an extremely hardworking and generous man. He worked for many ye a rs in the transportation industry and made numerous friends throughou t th is career. Don treasured his family and loved spending time with hi s chil dren, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was an exemplary patriarch and is survived by his wife LaNece, and se v en children: Don Mark (Jill) Ballif, Donece (Neil) Spencer, Jeff (Carol e ) Ballif, Todd (Lynette) Ballif, Karen (Dorran) Sampson, Verena (Klayn e ) Rasmussen, and Lisa (Steve) Coy. His posterity includes 33 grandchild re n and 15 great-grandchildren. Don is also survived by a brother Richar d , and sisters Yvonne, Joanne and Ina Rae. Funeral services will be held Friday 24 February 2012, at 11:00am at t h e Bountiful, Utah East Stake Center 2150 South 650 East in Bountiful, U ta h. Viewings will be held Thursday February 23 from 6:00 to 7:30pm at R uss on Brothers Mortuary 295 North Main Bountiful, Utah, as well as 9:3 0 to 1 0:30am at the stake center prior to the service.	Ballif, Don Robert (I163796)
1900	Obituary: Deseret News Published: Sunday, Nov. 12 1995 12:00 a.m. MST Donald "Sank" Dixon, age 88, passed away on Friday, November 10, 1955 af t er suffering from a brief illness. Sank was born on March 12, 1907 in Provo, Utah to Walter D. Dixon and Lo u ise Maiben Dixon. He married Lettie Vilate Romney on October 17, 193 0 i n the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Sank attended school in Provo, where he quickly became known as a star a t hlete. He graduated from BYU in 1929, where he was awarded 12 letter s i n football, basketball, and tennis. He and his brother Fred "Buck" Di xo n quickly became known as the phenomenal tennis duo that would eventua ll y play in four consecutive U.S. Open Tournaments. The natural course led Sank to a career in coaching. He began as a footb a ll coach at Lincoln High in Orem, where one of his team captains, LaVe l l Edwards assisted him in a State Championship in 1948. After 19 year s a t Lincoln High, he then coached for 5 years at Granite High School. F ro m there he went on to be a counselor and the first ever football coac h a t Olympus High School in Salt Lake City, remaining there for 18 year s unt il his retirement in 1973. During his years of coaching he also ser ved a s President of the Utah High School Coaches Association and Count y Recrea tion Director. His many honors include the Anderberg Medal for b est all- a round athlete at BYU and induction into the Old-Timers Athlet e s Associ ation Hall of Fame. His service in the LDS Church included work in the Sunday School Preside n cy and High Priests Group in the Holladay First Ward as well as involve me nt with the MIA sports program as coach and athletic coordinator. Sanky is survived by his son, Donald Romney Dixon and his wife Diane, Pr o vo, Utah; and is fondly remembered by son-in-law, John H. Tempest, Sal t L ake City; nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was prece de d in death by his wife, Lettie and his beloved daughter, Diane Tempe s an d son, Alan Romney Dixon. Funeral services will be held 12 Noon Tuesday November 14, 1995 in the W a satch Lawn Mortuary Chapel, 3401 South Highland Drive, where friends m a y call on Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. and on Tuesday from 10:45 t o 11 :45 a.m. prior to services. Interment, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.	Dixon, Donald Maiben (I164268)