Local Obituaries for Families in Salt Lake County & Along the Wasatch Front
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Apr 16, 2017
Heinz Reuben Nephi Kupitz, 86 passed away on April 16, 2017. He was born on February 20, 1931 in Berlin, Germany the son of Richard Gotthold Johannes Kupitz and Frieda Marie Martha Korth.He served an LDS mission from 1953-1955 in Germany. He immigrated to American in September of 1955. He married Helga Fassmann and together were sealed in the Salt...
Gertrude Glauser
Apr 16, 2017
Gertrude Glauser was born on February 17, 1915 in Bern, Switzerland to Ernest Glauser and Anna Marti Glauser. She passed away on April 16, 2017, Easter Sunday, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1928, she and her parents and six siblings immigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah. They sailed on the steamer S.S. Olympic to New York City and passed...
Bonnie Lee Seegmiller Stefanelli
Apr 15, 2017
Bonnie was born on 9/24/50 to Kent Sailor Seegmiller and Bonnie Virginia Atkins. She was the third daughter in the family. Bonnie was raised in Murray, Utah. She attended Murray High School and then BYU. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in Special Education. Bonnie was a teacher in Granite School District, Pleasant Green Elementary (Magna). She retired January, 2017.Bonnie...
Diane Burke
Apr 15, 2017
Diane Burke passed away peacefully April 15, 2017 at Spring Creek Healthcare Center in Holladay.She was born in Tremonton, Utah on June 20, 1934 and spent her youth in Honeyville, having been raised in the loving home of Maudell Seager and Tolman Burke.Diane left Utah at an early age to pursue a career. After attending and working at Utah State...
Shirley Ann Read Gillies
Apr 15, 2017
Our mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend Shirley Ann Read Gillies passed away Saturday, April 15, 2017 at the age of 74, due to complications from a stroke.Shirley was born July 19 1942 in Twin Falls Idaho, the first of three children to Ray and Hannah Read. For most of her childhood, she called a farm in Kimberly, Idaho home...
Lola Irene Dye Lewis
Apr 14, 2017
Lola Irene Dye Lewis passed away on April 14, 2017. She was born on June 24, 1932 in Pocatello, Idaho to Robert Ernest Dye and Mary Irene Johnson. She married Frank S Lewis on July 7, 1950 and was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple.Lola will be remembered for her feisty “I can do it!” spirit, her love of...
Ruth Ann Clark
Apr 14, 2017
Ruth Ann Clark, age 62, passed peacefully in her sleep on Friday, April 14, 2017. Born to Glen Arthur Pratt and Lois Ruth Evans on May 27, 1954 in Salt Lake City, she was a lifelong area resident. Dedicated to service and a devoted member of the LDS church, Ruth was committed to the Relief Society efforts, equal rights for...
Clarence Thomas
Apr 14, 2017
Hyrum Clarence Thomson Jr. was born on February 11, 1928 to Janette Tanner and Hyrum Clarence Thomson in Salt Lake City, Utah. He had 3 older sisters: Eleen (Paul) Williams, Melba (Marty) Larsen, and LaRue (Tony) Shaw.He attended South High School where he was on the Track Team as a Pole Vaulter, and he was the Center on the Football...
Luman Doyle Lewis
Apr 13, 2017
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Luman Doyle (Bill) Lewis, 92, passed from this world on April 13, 2017 at the Central Utah Veteran's Home in Payson, Utah. Luman leaves a legacy of faith in God, love of family and country, and service to all to those who were privileged...
Einar H. Johnson, Jr.
Apr 13, 2017
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Our much loved father, husband, brother, grand-father, great-grandfather and friend, returned home on Thursday, April 13, 2017. Dad passed away peacefully, embraced in love and surrounded by family. Einar was born August 1, 1921 in Winter Quarters,...
Benjamin Kent Taylor
Apr 13, 2017
Benjamin Kent Taylor, 82, passed away peacefully on April 13, 2017, in South Jordan, Utah. He was born on July 18, 1934, in Lewisville, Idaho to Marion Lewis and Sarah Elizabeth Taylor. He married Joyce Hart Taylor on March 15, 1957 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple.Kent worked in the automobile business and served as a car sales manager at...
Gaylene Chapman
Apr 12, 2017
Gaylene F. Chapman, 54, passed away on April 12, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gaylene was born on August 18, 1962 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Gordon Lee and Carolyn H. Ferguson. She married the love of her life, Steven M. Chapman, on November 28, 1984.Gaylene loved children, teaching, camping, and being around friends. She graduated from Salt...
Miriam Simkins
Apr 12, 2017
Miriam Ann Howarth Simkins, age 82, passed away on April 12, 2017, in West Jordan, Utah, with loved ones at her side due to circumstances incident to age. She was born on August 29, 1934, to Thomas and Esther Howarth in Heber City, Utah, the third of five children. She always spoke fondly of her early years in Heber, milking...
Maria Ursula (Lula) Ulibarri
Apr 11, 2017
Maria Ursula (Lula) Ulibarri was born to Carlos Ulibarri and Petra Tafoya Ulibarri on July 15, 1927 and passed on 4/11/2017. Maria spent her early years in Plaza Blanca, NM, Later she moved to Colorado Springs, CO. where she started working as a nanny for a family from there, later she moved to England with the same family, but it...
Ross Baum
Apr 10, 2017
Ross Wherritt Baum, age 83, passed away on April 10, 2017, in Cottonwood Heights. He was born on September 13, 1933, in Heber City, Utah to Irene Olivia Williams and Isaac Fulwell Baum. He married Janet Cotton-Betteridge on February 9, 1962 in the Salt Lake City Temple.Ross joined the Navy and served in the Korean War. Received a Bachelor’s of...
Zina Jean Evans Bateman
Apr 9, 2017
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Zina Jean BATEMAN, passed away April 9, 2017. Jean was born June 29, 1937 to John Isaac and Lillian Eva Mac Donald EVANS in American Fork, Utah, third of seven children. She graduated from American Fork High in 1955 and attended Utah...
Dennis Walter King
Apr 9, 2017
Dennis Walter King, Age 83, died on April 9, 2017 in Centerville, Utah. He was born on March 2, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Genevieve and Walter King. He married Cherie Ann Symes on February 19, 1955.He was an engineer in every sense of the word. From math to model trains, and teaching to model planes, he taught...
Bryant Alfred Jensen
Apr 9, 2017
Bryant Alfred Jensen, age 84, passed away peacefully at home, Sunday, April 9, 2017. He was born Feb. 21, 1933, in Burley, Idaho, to Alfred Jensen and Edith Adelia Nye. Bryant married Beverly Gwen Carroll Feb. 28, 1958 in the Salt Lake Temple.He loved his family, music, carpentry, the gospel and was a true friend. He enjoyed their cabin in...
