Local Obituaries for Families in Salt Lake County & Along the Wasatch Front
Mary Minaye Imamura
Jan 21, 2023
Mary Minaye Imamura passed away on January 21, 2023. She was born on December 10, 1929 to Takataro and Miyoe Shiba in Gilroy, California. She was incarcerated to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona in 1942 and moved to Salt Lake City in 1946. She graduated from West High School in 1947 and attended Stevens-Henager Business College. She married Harry...
Christa Erika Murillo
Jan 20, 2023
Christa Erika Murillo, age 84, of West Valley City, passed away on January 20th, 2023.Christa was born in Konigsberg, Ostruben, Prussia on January 22nd, 1938 to Erich Ernst Paetsch and Margarete Charlotte Tichelmann and was the youngest of 4 children. At the end of WWII her family fled from Prussia, eventually residing in Potsdam, Germany. Later, her family left East...
Jeremy Reading
Jan 20, 2023
Jeremy Calvin Reading, loving father, son, and brother, passed peacefully on January 20. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and attended St. Francis Xavier Catholic school with his siblings and cousins. Jeremy looked forward to his Friday’s in elementary, going out to eat with his aunt, siblings, and cousins. He always had everyone laughing by either talking funny...
Elwood (Woody) Lester Watts
Jan 20, 2023
Elwood (Woody) Lester Watts was called home on January 20, 2023. Woody was born January 14, 1934 to Lester Morris Watts and Beatrice Lavon Papworth in Salt Lake City, Utah.He spent his growing up years in Salt Lake attending East High and then University of Utah where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology. He met his eternal companion,...
Gail Jean Prows Hansen
Jan 20, 2023
My Sunshine is now an Angel of light from the heavens.Gail Jean Prows Hansen has passed through the veil into the loving arms of her parents and loved ones.Gail was born November 12, 1952, to Eugene and Dorothy Prows in Salt Lake City, UT. She died at her home in South Jordan on January 20, 2023, at age 70, from...
Jan Mandarino
Jan 19, 2023
On January 19, 2023, after a long battle with dementia, Jan Mandarino returned to her Heavenly Father. Born on June 14, 1952, to Fred Francis Mandarino and Reva Marilyn Carlston, she was the third of five children.Jan spent nearly 42 years with L3 Communications in various roles within the company. Never shy about sharing her opinion, those she worked with...
Roselyn Mann Stratton
Jan 19, 2023
Roselyn Mann Stratton 88, died, January 19th, 2023She was born June 12, 1934 to Newell and Helen Mann.Married Paul Martin Stratton June 10, 1953.Roselyn was a very compassionate person. She worked in the medical field as an LPN for over 30 years.She loved playing the violin through her high school years.She graduated from East High School, where she developed a...
Sherri Lana Magnusson Zirker
Jan 19, 2023
Sherri Lana Magnusson Zirker passed away at the age of 83, surrounded by love at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, Utah on Thursday, January 19, 2023.Sherri was born on August 28, 1939, in Mesa, Arizona to Robert Cleo Magnussen and Lora Wilkins Magnussen Potts. She was the second of five children, Her older brother Melvin Magnusson, deceased, and her sisters...
Judy Marie Finch
Jan 18, 2023
Our beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandma and Friend Judith Marie Finch (Judy) passed away at the young age of 76. She passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, surrounded by love. Our Mother was a fighter and fought a long battle, after being diagnosed with a kidney disease.Our Mother was full of life and was always waiting for the...
Doris Ladean Marshall
Jan 17, 2023
Doris LaDean Hunter Marshall (87) passed away on January 17, 2023 in Midvale, Utah. She was born on June 10, 1935 in Ferron, Utah to Ernest and Edna Hunter.LaDean married her sweetheart Lloyd E. Marshall on August 27, 1953.She loved her children and grand children so much. She also had a great passion for family history and genealogy. She is...
Ray Lewellyn Barney
Jan 16, 2023
Ray Lewellyn Barney, 83, passed away on January 16, 2023 at his home in West Valley, Utah. He was born on February 8th, 1939 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Max Barney and Ida (Jones) Barney. He was married to Thelma Joyner on February 14, 1962. Ray liked hunting and fishing, and loved to travel in his RV across the...
Arnold Van Der Laan
Jan 15, 2023
Arnold was born in Hengolo, Netherlands on March 26, 1948 and came to America in 1958, age 10, with his mother, Jentje van der Laan, and father, Reinder van der Laan. His three older siblings remained behind in Holland as they were older and married. Arnold, who was younger, grew up in Utah creating a lot of mischief in his...
Walter Marvin Cunningham
Jan 15, 2023
Walter Marvin Cunningham, 70 years old, died on January 15, 2023, in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. He was born on December 23, 1952, in Landstuhl, Germany, to Charles Leonard Cunningham and June Brown. He grew up in Alaska, and was living in Anchorage at the time of the 9.2 Alaska earthquake in March 1964, which destroyed his family’s restaurant. The family...
Michael Robert Christian
Jan 15, 2023
Salt Lake City, UT-Michael Robert Christian died unexpectedly in his home on January 15, 2023. He was born in Walla Walla, Washington, on April 27, 1978, to Michael and Sandy Christian, who preceded him in death. He is also preceded in death by a daughter, Morgan. He is survived by his sister, Tiffany, and four children: Jacob, Joshua, Alexander, and...
Antonio Miguel Jimenez
Jan 15, 2023
Born on June 22nd, 1998 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Monica & Jose Jimenez.Tony was kind, gentle and full of love. He adored his mother, sister & grandmother; and was always fiercly loyal to his family. When it was time for work, he worked hard; and when it was time for play, he played with abandon. He often spent...
Verla Coon Withers
Jan 14, 2023
Verla Coon WithersVeral Coon Withers passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on January 14, 2023. Just 4 days from her 93rd birthday which she was trying to avoid celebrating in any way she could.Verla was born January 18, 1930 in Murray, Utah to Wilford & Zula Coon. Veral married Rumel J. Withers on November 17, 1950 in the...
Cesar Martinez
Jan 14, 2023
Cesar Martinez was born on September 14, 1947 in Guatemala City, Guatemala to Felipa Martinez. He was married to Haydee Martinez, and together they had three children; Cynthia, William and Alison, along with five grandchildren. Our father immigrated from Guatemala forty seven years ago with his wife to start a new life in the United States. He came with a...
Melvin Drewry “Drew” Long
Jan 13, 2023
Drew’s journey began on July 1, 1942 in Provo, Utah. He married the love of his life, Elisabeth on January 11, 1962 in the Salt Lake Temple.Drew loved spending time with his family, nothing made him happier than playing with and teasing his grandchildren, he loved his Savior Jesus Christ, served faithfully in several callings including as a family history...
Merlyn Knighton Jolley
Jan 13, 2023
Merlyn Knighton Jolley was born at home in Elberta, Utah, on a cold night, March 29, 1931. He was so small the doctor did not expect him to make it through the night, but he did and lived 91 more years. He was #18 of the 19 children in a blended family. He shared stories of picking wild asparagus, shooting...
Marguerite Dianne Ashmore
Jan 13, 2023
Marguerite Dianne Ashmore was born August 4, 1943 in Columbus, Mississippi, to Emerson Alton Partridge and Betty Jane Hawn. Her first name came from her paternal-grandmother, but she never liked it because it was so easily mispronounced and misspelled. She always went by her middle name, but it irked her when that was misspelled too. She grew up in Warren,...
