Local Obituaries for Families in Salt Lake County & Along the Wasatch Front
Gregory L. Gruis
Sep 16, 2022
Gregory L. Gruis, also known as Gregg, “damnit Gregg”, dad, grandpa, great grandpa, uncle, and friend has left us with lots of love, memories, and laughs.Gregory L. Gruis was born to Laurin Oscar Gruis & Ida Mae Heller on April 22, 1947. Gregg enlisted in the United States Navy and served on active duty during the Vietnam War. After returning...
Rita Ann Leupp
Sep 14, 2022
Rita Ann Leupp On September 14, 2022 at 58 years old Rita Ann Leupp has fulfilled her journey on Earth and has begun her next journey. As we celebrate her birth on December 16, 1963 in Gallup, New Mexico we also celebrate her death. As she’s reunited with her own love ones like her parents Louise and David.By the time...
Joyce Ellen Hatton Davis
Sep 14, 2022
Joyce Ellen Hatton Davis passed away from natural causes 9-14-2022 at her son’s home in West Jordan, Utah. She was born on 5-15-1939 to Glen and Pearl Hatton in the Mojave Desert of Red Mountain, California. She graduated with a degree in acting from the Pasadena Playhouse and acted in many stage productions across the United States and Canada. Joyce...
Judith A Downing
Sep 13, 2022
Judith Arleen Downing, age 79, passed away on September 13, 2022 in South Jordan, Utah. She was born on October 2, 1942 in Oakland, California to Orville and Athelie Walsh. She was married to Richard F. Downing on September 17, 1961.She went to cosmetology school and received training in this area. She also enjoyed sewing and working on Family history/...
Aspen Marie Agnew
Sep 13, 2022
To see Aspen was to love her. Aspen was such a special little girl. She was the person who walked into a room and everyone felt her sunshine and wanted to be close to her warmth. She had an irresistibly contagious little laugh that brought joy to the core of all who heard it. She was as sweet as a...
Beverly Charmaine Nelson
Sep 13, 2022
Beverly C. Nelson, Age 87, passed away September 13, 2022 in Holladay, Utah.Mom was born August 15th, 1935 in Great Falls, Montana to Fannie and John Mican.Mom graduated from high school in Stanford, Montana in 1953 and attended and graduated from nursing school in Missoula, Montana in 1957. She met and later married Dad on June 14 of that year...
Karen Ruth Kimball Bradford
Sep 13, 2022
Karen Ruth Kimball Bradford, our sweet momma, gramma, and sister, passed away on Tuesday September 13, 2022, age 79.Karen was born June 28, 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ralph Kimball and Marie Seegmiller Kimball. She spent her first two years of life living with her mother and grandmother, only meeting her dad for the first time, at age...
Merritt Michael Decol
Sep 12, 2022
Merritt Michael DeCol passed away at the age of 79 on September 12th, 2022 at St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. He was born on August 11th, 1943 in Alexandria, Louisiana to Keith Drake DeCol & Syble Aubrey Bayham.Mike was raised in Kearns, Utah where he met his wife, Patsy Bodine. They attended Grainger High School, where he...
Earl Harry Phillips Jr
Sep 12, 2022
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Earl Harry Phillips Jr. on September 12, 2022, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, just three days shy of his 80th birthday. He was born September 15, 1942, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 2nd born of three siblings; Earl spent his childhood days in Salt Lake City.He was preceded in...
Gloria Simonds
Sep 11, 2022
Gloria Gayle (Backus) Simonds passed away at the age of 84 in Sandy, UT. She was born on December 10th 1937 in Salt Lake City to Leonard T. Backus and Thelma O. Backus. She spent most of her life in the Salt Lake Valley before moving to Heber City then to Mount Pleasant Utah.She loved doing knitting, crocheting, quilting and...
Robert Mcdonald
Sep 11, 2022
Robert John McDonald, a father of 5 and grandfather of 6 (soon to be 7) passed away from diabetic complications at the age of 56 on September 11th, 2022. He spent his life valuing the time he got to spend with his family and fought hard to see his life through. Those who knew him knew him as a fighter...
Barbara Boothe Justice
Sep 10, 2022
Barbara Boothe Justice, born on May 19, 1946 in Salt Lake City to Donald and Melba Boothe passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early morning of September 10, 2022 after a short fight with brain cancer.Barbara worked for Albertsons for 29 years where she made many lifelong friends.She and her loving husband, Terry had a cabin in Bear...
Ellen Melinda Fullmer
Sep 10, 2022
Ellen Melinda Fullmer age 92, passed away peacefully in her home in Kearns, Utah surrounded by her loving family on September 10, 2022.Ellen was born November 21, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Melvin and Laverne Alvey.Ellen married Harry Kay Fullmer Sr. on March 24, 1947.Ellen was a woman of many talents like cooking, sewing, ceramics, volunteering, and organizing...
Janeal Neilson Andrus
Sep 9, 2022
Janeal Neilson Andrus, our beloved mother, wife, grandma, great-grandma, and sister passed away on September 9, 2022. She was born on April 11, 1928 in Holladay, Utah to Joseph Clyde Neilson and Marguerite Olson Neilson. A child of the Great Depression, she learned at an early age the value of two things: hard work and a dollar. She graduated from...
Connie Annis
Sep 9, 2022
Connie Annis, aged 83, passed away on September 9, 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born on December 31st, 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Dorat Leon Carlson. She was married 3 times.Connie liked to crochet and she enjoyed going on trips to Wendover. She worked as a cook for the school system.She is survived by her...
Bonnie Ileen Burke-Judd
Sep 9, 2022
Bonnie Ileen Burke-Judd, Age 77, passed away peacefully Friday, September 9, 2022, in her home in Layton, UT, with family by her side.She was born July 28, 1945, in Salt Lake City, UT, to James Carlow and Emma Thompson Burke.The love for her kids and grandkids was celebrated with lots of adventures, which always included a picnic. She was a...
Meri Lyn Oshel
Sep 7, 2022
On Wednesday the Seventh of September, our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and aunt left us to go see her loved ones that had proceeded her in death, and to be with the Lord.It all started for this world on November 19, 1944. On that day Meri was born to Erwin and Mildred Schelin in Salt Lake City, Utah. She had...
Ruth Boutsis-Leonard
Sep 7, 2022
Ruth Boutsis-Leonard, age 86, passed away on September 7, 2022. She was born on March 19, 1936, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Louis and Margaret. Ruth spent most of her life in Salt Lake City but also lived in Roosevelt, Utah, and spent some time living in the Bay Area in California. Ruth epitomized the values of hard work...
Robert Clarence Greenland
Sep 6, 2022
Robert Clarence Greenland, aged 55, passed away on September 6, 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born on April 3, 1967 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Richard G. and Darleen Greenland. He married Patricia Ruth Evans on October 22, 2002 and were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.Robert loved all things Special Olympics. He participated in...
Cyril Ray Olson
Sep 6, 2022
Cyril Ray OlsonJuly 23, 1934 – September 6, 2022Ray passed away peacefully at the age of 88 years old in the Cottonwood Heights home he loved and shared for 52 years with his sweetheart Kathie. He was surrounded by Kathie and his three girls, Leslie, Kelly and Christie, when he passed.Ray was born on July 23,1934 in Mount Pleasant, Utah...
