Local Obituaries for Families in Salt Lake County & Along the Wasatch Front
Sylvia Howard
Sep 3, 2014
Our precious Wife, Mother and Grandmother passed away peacefully at the age of 77 on September 3, 2014 in the CareSource Hospice Center surrounded by her family after struggling courageously through a third battle with different cancers. All join in their concurrence that this elegant lady devoted her entire life on earth to kindness, excellence and unconditional love for those...
Bonnie Pugh
Sep 1, 2014
Loving Wife, Mother, Grandmother and Friend returned to her Heavenly Father on September 1st 2014. She was born in Tabiona Utah on June 16th 1933. The daughter of Gilbert Hart and Oral Shields Sears. She was the oldest of 4 children. She married the love of her life Eldon David Pugh on June 16th 1951. Together our parents were blessed...
Leonard Severson
Sep 1, 2014
Leonard Willis Severson1932 – 2014Leonard W. Severson passed away on September 1, 2014 in Ogden, Utah of natural causes. He was born on June 4, 1932, in Lewisville, Idaho. His parents were Glen and Helen Severson. He was raised in Tremonton, Utah where he graduated from Bear River High School.After High School graduation, he joined the Navy and was stationed...
Ethelyn Grane
Sep 1, 2014
Ethelyn Christensen Grane, 96, passed away peacefully on September 1, 2014 in Erda, Utah. She was born in Kanosh, Utah on February, 7, 1918 to James Franklin Christensen and Helen Alice Nadauld. She married Reginald Bennett Grane on February 6, 1937. They met in Kanosh, Utah where he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Together they had 4 beautiful children.Some...
Joan Alleman Sumsion
Aug 31, 2014
Our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend, Emma Joan Alleman Sumsion passed away August 31, 2014 in Bountiful, Utah. Born January 5, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Joan was the much-adored daughter of John William and Emma Klinkel Alleman. She grew up in Springville, Utah and attended the U of U and BYU, graduating with a...
Ralph Strong
Aug 31, 2014
Our kind and loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Ralph LaVell Strong, passed away August 31, 2014. He was a man who was dearly loved, and was truly an example of “enduring to the end.”Born August 28, 1926 to Dr. W. Melvin Strong and Ruth Thorson. He married Donna Williams on December 15, 1953. He was an active member of...
Sten Dahlstrom
Aug 31, 2014
Sten Bertil Dahlstrom, 77, of Salt Lake City, passed away at home on August 31, 2014. He was born in Kalmar, Sweden on September 16, 1936. The son of Axel and Edla Dahlstrom. He married Lola Deon Pulver on October 24, 1960.He loved fishing, crystal glass making, playing the harmonica and welding. He served in the Swedish Air force and...
Blaine Harmon
Aug 31, 2014
Blaine Nielsen Harmon returned to his heavenly home August 31st 2014 after battling pulmonary fibrosis.Born October 12, 1931 in Cache Valley, UT. Blaine was the oldest child of Israel Child Harmon and Ruby Nielsen Harmon. At the age of 13, his family moved to Salt Lake City, UT where he spent his teenage years and graduated from South High School...
Kay Jorgensen
Aug 31, 2014
Kay Suzanne Jorgensen, 59, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 31, 2014 at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a 12-year battle with cancer.Born May 28, 1955, in Orlando, Florida, she resided in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kay was in her element in the home sewing, cooking, baking and teaching her children. She loved interacting with the...
Wallace Stewart
Aug 30, 2014
The rock of our family, Wallace Ted Eyre Stewart, passed away on August 30, 2014. He was born on July 19, 1938 in Salt Lake City to Theodore Alonzo Stewart and Callie Drewery (Eyre) Stewart, in Salt Lake City. His family relocated to St. George when Wally was nine, and he gained many fond memories of the Utah desert. The...
Desmond Paul
Aug 30, 2014
On Saturday, August 30, 2014, Desmond Roscoe Paul passed peacefully in his sleep at his home in West Jordan, Utah.Young Desmond is survived by a large, loving family including parents Derrick Ryan Paul and Suzanne Marie Anderson Paul, older sister and brother Norah and Deidrick Paul, and many cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.Although with us for just a very short...
Samuel Edgar Fernley
Aug 30, 2014
Samuel Edgar “Ed” Fernley II, cherished husband, father, grandfather, and friend passed away peacefully from conditions incident to age on August 30, 2014. Ed was born on March 29, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Samuel Edgar and Hazel Williams Fernley. He leaves a legacy of consistent service to his family, community, and church.Ed had an exceptional singing voice...
Helen Berry
Aug 29, 2014
Helen Brimhall Berry, a valiant daughter of our Heavenly Father, died on August 29th, 2014. She was born in Provo, Utah, on November 28th, 1923 to Wilford Woodruff Brimhall and Olva Evans Brimhall. She married Charles Rex Berry in Elko, Nevada, on July 28th, 1945. They were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They raised their children, Linda Lee...
Patricia “Pat” Hale Wahlstrom
Aug 29, 2014
Our sweet mother, nana and friend, Pat, of Sandy, Utah, passed away on August 29, 2014. She was born on March 17, 1926 to Thomas Hale and Mary Walker Hale in Cleveland, Ohio. Pat grew up in California where she met and married her childhood sweetheart since elementary school, Steven Wahlstrom. They spent 53 amazing years together until his passing...
Gregory Buck
Aug 26, 2014
Gregory Lee Buck, age 56, passed away on August 26, 2014 in Vancouver, Washington. He was born June 12, 1958 in Illinois to William and Norma Buck. Greg loved truck driving, fishing, and the Oakland Raiders football team.Greg is survived by his son, Jeff (Paula) Buck of West Jordan, Utah; Jason (Chrissy) Cook of Taylorsville, Utah; daughter, Robyn Cook of...
Eric Lee Mann
Aug 25, 2014
OGDEN- Eric Lee Mann graduated from this life after fighting a long COURAGEOUS battle with chronic health problems, he finally succumbed to pneumonia and sepsis.
Eric was born in Ogden to Dennis L. Mann and MarJean (Maggie) Mower Mann Lindley. Eric was raised in Ogden, Layton, Idaho, and Roy. He attended Roy and Fremont high schools....
Edith Sanders
Aug 24, 2014
Edith Esther Perschon Sanders, 90, passed away peacefully Sunday morning in her home with her family lovingly around her. She is now free of the many physical problems she has endured so gallantly and gracefully. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the ninth and last child of William F Perschon and Johanna Elise Bucholz Perschon. Edith...
Virginia Ruth Nielsen Hardy
Aug 24, 2014
Together Again
Virginia Ruth Nielsen Hardy passed peacefully into eternity at Beehive Homes Care on a beautiful Sunday morning, Aug. 24, 2014. Virginia was one month short of her 100th birthday. Born Sept. 24, 1914 in Salt Lake City, the daughter of Niels C. Nielsen and Stella Brighton. Married Harold George Hardy in the Salt Lake...
Cyril (Cy) Talabock
Aug 22, 2014
Cyril (Cy) Joseph Talabock passed away August 22, 2014 at the age of 79 in South Jordon, UT. He was born on June 5, 1935 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, to Felix and Lydia Talabock. He had three younger brothers, Thomas, Felix Jr., and Donnie. Cy was an award winning athlete in high school. He enjoyed playing baseball, basketball,...
Paul Brown
Aug 22, 2014
Paul or “Tom”, a nickname his mother gave him, was born to Paul Leon “PL” Brown, Sr. and Nina Mae Bello in Hunter, Utah.He grew up, worked many hours and drove a cattle truck on his father’s dairy farm. Paul also drove a coal truck for his uncle. Dad said he “drove the truck for 100,000 miles without putting a...
