Robert Dale "Bob" Durrans

Robert Dale “Bob” Durrans, age 95 of Provo, Utah, passed away peacefully at home on October 31, 2025. He was born July 9, 1930, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Ross Inman Durrans and Clea Merle Reynolds. He married Ruth Leone Rose in the Salt Lake City Temple on June 5, 1953.

As a youth growing up in rural Idaho, he excelled in playing sports, fishing, singing, theater, and learned to work hard on the farm. His guardian angel was his dog, Mickie, who saved him more than once. He also raised a pet Badger, Killjoy, for a couple of years.

He graduated from Ashton High School, served in the Idaho National Guard, and attended Ricks College. Following his first mission to Sweden, he met and married Ruth while at BYU. Employment took them to California, where he graduated from Glendale City College with an Associate degree and attended UCLA. A long career in banking provided for his family in both Southern California and eventually back to Utah with Central Bank in Provo. He shared his love of the outdoors with his family, and yearly camping trips to Shaver Lake spawned the family's love of boating. He served faithfully in many callings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and Ruth served in Sweden twice, in the mission office and as a counselor in the Stockholm Temple Presidency. He spent thousands of hours doing family history work. matching and comparing the names of over 850k individuals and families for accuracy and completion, in preparation for temple ordinances. He loved his family, and no one escaped his teasing and jokes.

Bob is survived by his wife, Ruth Rose Durrans; three children: Kathleen (Brad) Whitaker, Sherilynn (Kim) Butler, and Robert Guy (Kathy) Durrans; and siblings Barbara Durrans, Christy, Raymond (SuSann) Durrans, and sisters-in-law Shirley Durrans and Verlene Durrans. He has 23 grandchildren and 55 great-grandchildren. Proceeding him in death are his parents Ross Durrans and Clea Durrans, brothers Charles W. Atkinson, Richard F. Durrans, Gerald A.Durrans, Lawrence R. Durrans, Lynn M. Durrans, and sisters Vila Jean Durrans and Zona Louise Parkinson (Dale).

A viewing for family and friends will be held on Friday, November 7, 2025, from 6-8 pm at Wheeler-Sundberg Funeral Home, 495 South State Street, Orem. Funeral services will be Saturday, November 8th, at 11:00 am, also at Wheeler-Sundberg Funeral Home, with a viewing held that morning from 9:30-10:30 am at the funeral home prior to the service. Interment will follow in the Garland City Cemetery, 5400 West 13600 North, Garland, Utah.

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