OBITUARIES

Helen   England

Helen England

Jan 18, 2016

Helen Smith England passed away on January 18 in Salt Lake City Utah at the age of 83, She was born June 4, 1932 in Montpelier, Idaho to Elmer Thomas Smith and Sarah Taylor Smith. When she was a young girl she lived in several towns in Idaho and Wyoming, as her father worked on the railroad, and was transferred...

Karen Riley  Ford

Karen Riley Ford

Jan 13, 2016

Karen Riley Ford passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on January 13, 2016. Karen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 15, 1939 to Samuel Lloyd Riley and Claudine Williams Riley. 

Karen grew up in Bountiful and lived there for almost her whole life. She loved Bountiful and was a proud to be a...

Ret USAF Major David Lynn  Humphrey

Ret USAF Major David Lynn Humphrey

Jan 12, 2016

Retired USAF Major David  Lynn Humphrey passed away at his home 12 January 2016 in his sleep. Born 29 April 1935 to Sarah Elizabeth (Branscomb) Humphrey and Clifford Warrick Humphrey of Olathe, Colorado.  He graduated from Olathe High School, attended the University of Colorado, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy (Class of 1959).  He married Alice "Ellaine" Standish...

Kenneth   Harris

Kenneth Harris

Jan 12, 2016

Kenneth Harris

1926 – 2016

 

Nearly making it to age 90, Kenneth Harris passed away peacefully early in the morning of January 12, 2016. He was born February 14, 1926 in Randlett, Utah to Leonard and Martha Kitchen Harris.  He learned the value of work during his youth and never forgot his Uintah Basin roots.  On February 28, 1947,...

Merwin Udall  Stewart

Merwin Udall Stewart

Jan 11, 2016

Merwin Udall Stewart, 84, passed away peacefully on the evening of January 11, 2016 due to complications from old age. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 16, 1931 to William Udall (Dell) and Edith Lorraine Webb Stewart, he married June Marie Lorenzen in the Los Angeles Temple on August 20, 1956.  Merwin spent his childhood years as a cowboy...

Merlin J.  Mecham Ph.D

Merlin J. Mecham Ph.D

Jan 10, 2016

Merlin J. Mecham of Bountiful, Utah, passed away peacefully at his daughter’s home surrounded by his family on January 10, 2016, at age 92.  Merlin was born on January 31, 1923, in Neola, Utah, to James Duke and Zina Ellen Duncan Mecham. He grew up in Neola and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1941.  He attended Brigham Young University...

Marian Guiver  Runnells

Marian Guiver Runnells

Jan 10, 2016

Marian Guiver Runnells passed away peacefully on January 10, 2016 from an extended illness. She is finally united with Bob, the love of her life and her dog Tony, with whom she was inseparable. At age 91, she lived life to the fullest. 

On June 2, 1924, Marian was born at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah to...

Elizabeth Faith  Jenson

Elizabeth Faith Jenson

Jan 10, 2016

Funeral Services will be held Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at  Russon Brothers Mortuary, 1941 North Main Street, Farmington, UT with a visitation for family and friends from 9:45-10:45 a.m. prior to the service. Interment- Farmington City Cemetery.

Eli Ray  Mitchell

Eli Ray Mitchell

Jan 8, 2016

Eli Ray Mitchell “Rusty” was born Jun. 2, 1930 to Frank Hunter Mitchell and LuRena Taylor Mitchell. He passed away peacefully on January 8, 2016 due to complications of colon cancer.

Eli, the fifth of six siblings born and raised in West Bountiful, Utah. A graduate of Davis High School. Eli served an LDS mission in New Zealand. He married...

Leslie Ann  Pessetto

Leslie Ann Pessetto

Jan 7, 2016

Leslie Ann Taylor Pessetto passed away on January 7, 2016 in her home in Anchorage, Alaska surrounded by family, after a brief, but hard fought, battle with breast cancer. Leslie was born on April 20th, 1959 to F. Willis and Louise Dickson Taylor in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the sixth of seven children. Leslie grew up in Bountiful,...

Loyal Wayne  Fry

Loyal Wayne Fry

Jan 6, 2016

His sister Susan referred to him as a gentle giant, "The Gentle Giant has fallen".  But he was also a valiant soldier, a loving husband, and a protective father, a member of the Greatest Generation, and he has returned home to the Great God who made him.  

 

Wayne Fry, known as The Colonel, was born in 1922, in...

Alice Thurston  Hall

Alice Thurston Hall

Jan 5, 2016

Alice Thurston Hall born February 5, 1943 passed away quietly in her sleep during the early morning hours of January 5, 2016. Alice was the daughter of Frank and Rhoda Thurston of Hyde Park, Utah. She married Dee Ashby Hall on August 17, 1959 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple for time and all eternity.

Her life was one of...