Obituaries
Orem, UT Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Orem & UT County area
Marion Vernon
Mar 17, 2016
Fern Vernon, 92, peacefully left this world surrounded by her family at her Provo, Utah home on March 17, 2016. She was born to James Ketchel and Vera Bushman Trunkey on November 28, 1923 in Twisp, Washington along with her twin Faye. She grew up in Provo-Orem where she kept busy with home economics. She was a member of the...
Betty Humpherys
Mar 16, 2016
Our beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Betty Joyce Lowe Humpherys, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 in Provo, Utah. "I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith." (2 Tim. 4:7) She was born on April 19, 1924 in Franklin, Idaho to Lester Doney and Golden Grace Fjeldsted Lowe. Betty was raised...
Elaine Moody
Mar 10, 2016
Elaine Moody passed away in her birth city, Provo, Utah, on March 10, 2016. She felt blessed to live long enough to tour the Provo City Center Temple because the Tabernacle held many memories for her. Elaine was born into a valiant family on July 21, 1927, the youngest of John Wells and Mary Myrl Alder McAllister's five children. As...
Maxine Young
Mar 8, 2016
Maxine Hodson Young passed peacefully through the veil into the arms of her loving Heavenly Father and her beloved husband Alfred Young on March 8th 2016 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma she was 88. She was born on December 18th 1927 in Afton Oklahoma to Claude and Blondina Hodson. She was the oldest of three daughters. Maxine met the love of...
Fern Nelson
Mar 7, 2016
Fern Savage Nelson was born on June 18, 1933 in Richfield, UT to parents Alma Savage, Jr. and Ethel Thompson Savage. Fern was raised on a working ranch in Antimony,UT. When Fern was 5 years old, her mother passed away from complications in child birth. She grew up surrounded by loving brothers, sisters, aunts and her father. Fern graduated from...
Melvin Mabey
Mar 7, 2016
Melvin Pack Mabey of Orem, Utah died on March 7, 2016 of complications from adult onset diabetes. He was born in Bountiful, Utah on May 10, 1923, the son of David and Nellie Pack Mabey. He lived in Bountiful until his graduation from Davis High School. He then attended the University of Utah and Brigham Young University, graduating from the...
Bernon Smith
Mar 4, 2016
Bernon Mervin Smith passed away on March 4, 2016 in Orem, UT. He was born 20 June 1930, the son of Clyde Albert and Dorothy Mae (Mack) Smith in Slatington, Pennsylvania. He grew up in various locations in Pennsylvania and served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Midway. He married Irene Ethel Adams on 30 June 1951 in Allentown,...
Patricia Billington
Mar 4, 2016
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother Patricia (Larsen) Billington passed away on March 4, 2016 in Orem, UT surrounded by her family in a room filled with love. Born May 18, 1936 in San Acacio, CO to Carl and Mary (Luster) Larsen. She grew up in the San Luis Valley of Colorado and worked summers at a dude ranch....
Eric Longhurst
Mar 3, 2016
Eric Daniel Longhurst passed away on March 3, 2016. He was born on May 14, 2004 and resided in Orem, Utah. Eric is survived by his parents, Mark and Carolyn Longhurst of Orem, and his siblings Jason (Aubrey), Kyle, Brian, Melissa, and Nathan. He will be missed by loving grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. He was the youngest of...
Frederieka Zink
Mar 2, 2016
'Freddie' September 28, 1936 - March 2, 2016 I entered this world via San Jose, California into the loving arms of Henderena Sophia (Myers) and Frederick Leslie Kulper. My 2-year-old brother, Louis William Myers Kulper, was waiting at home. Seven years later our mother died. Then, when I was 8, Lou and I learned independence at boarding school. Polio became...
Kenneth Cuthbert
Mar 1, 2016
Our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away on March 1, 2016, due to incidents of age. He was born Sept 25, 1929 to Blair and Olive Cuthbert, in Rigby Idaho. He was raised in Rigby where he met and married Deone Tolley, his beloved wife of 68 years. They were married May 5, 1948 in the Idaho Falls,...
Don Porter
Feb 29, 2016
Don Gilbert Porter, age 99 passed away quietly in his sleep on February 29, 2016 in St. George UT. He was born May 15, 1916 in Salt Lake City Utah to Frank Grantier Porter and Myrtle Ivory Field. Don graduated from Lyman High School in 1935. He married Nyda Platts on June 3, 1935 in Morgan UT. Their marriage was...
Betty Bowden
Feb 26, 2016
Betty Lou Provost Bowden passed away peacefully Friday, February 26, 2016 at the age of 83. Betty was born March 28, 1932 to Darrell Ray Provost and Lilly LaPreal Cluff. She married the love of her life Douglas R. Bowden on June 1, 1950 and was later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on March 29, 1966. Married for 65...
Clinton Walker
Feb 25, 2016
Clinton Guy Walker 35 years old of Orem Utah lost his hard fought battle with addiction on Thursday February 25, 2016. Clint was born January 28, 1981 in Provo Utah to Blaine and Jeanne Walker. Clint graduated from Timpanogos High School in 1999 where he excelled in academics, football, and baseball. Afterwards serving a two year mission for The Church...
Florence Dart
Feb 21, 2016
1925 - 2016 When the sun came out Saturday 2/20/16 to melt the last of the winter snow, it heralded the departure of our mother, sister, grandma, friend, and hero from this earthly realm as she stepped away from her four living, loving daughters to be with her husband, children, family and friends on the other side. Florence Arlene Adams...
E. Hatch
Feb 20, 2016
E. Farr Hatch passed away peacefully in his home February 20, 2016. He was 89. Farr was born September 23, 1926 in Orem, UT to Elmer Webb and Tressa Farr Hatch. His childhood was spent between Woodruff, and Mesa Arizona and Payson and Provo Utah. At the age of 17, during World War II he enlisted in the Navy and...
Grajeda David
Feb 19, 2016
Alfonso David-Grajeda, age 37, of Orem, passed away February 19, 2016 after a work related accident. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the Sundberg-Olpin Funeral Home, 495 South State Street, Orem. A viewing will be held Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. and also Tuesday 9:30 a.m. to 10:a.m. prior to the...
Margaret Mills
Feb 16, 2016
Margaret Vance Mills, 93, of Provo (formerly of Tempe, AZ) passed away peacefully On the morning of February 16, 2016 of natural causes. She was a resident of Stonehenge Care Facility in American Fork, Utah. Margaret was born in a humble home on the outskirts of Tempe in Guadalupe, AZ on April 26, 1922 to Leonard Absalom and Josephine Spilsbury...
Charles Hanks
Feb 16, 2016
Charles Warren Hanks passed away on February 16, 2016. Chalres was born on November 19, 1933 to Spencer Whitaker and Edith Slack. He was later sealed to Raymond Hanks and Edith Slack Hanks. He married Joyce Fairbourn in 1958 and they were blessed with 4 children, 14 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held of Charles on Saturday,...
Anthony Marren
Feb 15, 2016
Anthony G. (Tony) Marren died peacefully at his home, with family and friends present, in Orem, UT, on February 15. He was 59. A long-time resident of the Orem/Provo area, Tony was born on December 13, 1956, in Long Island, N.Y. He attended elementary and high school on Long Island. As a young man he was a devoted member of...
