Obituaries
Orem, UT Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Orem & UT County area
Clinton Campbell
Mar 30, 2015
Clinton Kay Campbell passed away, March 28, 2015, due to complications caused by cancer. Born in Provo and raised in Spanish Fork, Utah, son of Henry Campbell and Dorthy Kofford Campbell. Clint attended Spanish Fork High School and college at the University of Utah. Clint started working when he was young with his dad on their farm and with his...
Mary Nielsen
Mar 30, 2015
Mary Richmond Brooks Nielsen passed away on March 30, 2015 after a battle with lymphoma. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 1, 1922 to Charles and Blanche Richmond. She was the youngest of seven children. Mary attended East High School in Salt Lake as did Melvin Richard Brooks. While attending the University of Utah, they began...
William Bill
Mar 22, 2015
Our dear husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather returned to his Heavenly Father on March 22, 2015 at the age of 79. He was born on July 24, 1935 in Moontownship, PA to Clifford A. Campbell and Mabel Jane Combs. Bill served over 20 years in the California Legislature as an Assemblyman and a Senator. As Senator, he served as Chairman...
Carl Johnson
Mar 22, 2015
Orem, UT - On Saturday, March 21st, Carl Dennis Johnson passed away, with his loving wife and children by his side. Denny was born July 26th, 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa to Carl Wilhelm and Hattie Mildred Johnson. He was the youngest of three children. He attended college at Drake University and then joined the U.S. Army and served in...
Ronald Mason
Mar 11, 2015
Ronald Lynn Mason passed away peacefully at his home in Orem, surrounded by family, on March 11, 2015. He had suffered from Parkinson's disease for 19 years. He was the son of Reuben Mason and Mary Erma Darger Mason, and was born in Murray, Utah and raised in North Salt Lake. He married Sharon Norcia in Waterford, CT on June...
Adabelle Shellenberger
Mar 11, 2015
Adabelle was born to John Hartman and Ella Mae Strine in Milton, PA. November 10,1920. She had 7 brothers and sisters who are all now deceased. She married Funda Shellenberger on August 31, 1940, they were later divorced. They had four children, Linda Jean (deceased), Terry, UT, Dixie Lee, UT, and Mary Sue, PA (Walter Hoey). Seven grandchildren and eight...
Frederick Fonseca
Mar 9, 2015
Frederick "Fred"Richard Fonseca peacefully left this world for the next, passing away in his home on March 9, 2015, due to complications following cancer. Fred was attendedto, loved by, and is survived by his wife and eternal companion, Anne Marie Fonseca, his daughters; Meghan Fonseca (Emily), Teal Duncan (Nate), and Janelle Morton, who is currently serving a mission in South...
Artha Robinson
Mar 9, 2015
Artha Gene Curtis Robinson, 91, died March 7, 2015. She was born in Oakley, Idaho on Nov. 18, 1923, the youngest of the five children of Viola Mary Hale and Albert William Curtis. She was educated in Salt Lake City and Provo, graduated from South High, after which she took a summer business course, attended two years at BYU, and...
Maurice Bowman
Mar 5, 2015
Maurice Dwight Bowman, age 86, died peacefully on Thursday, March 5th, 2015, at his family home in Orem, Utah. He was married for 62 years to the beautiful Nellie Beuk of Hilversum, Holland. Maurice was born in Colonia Dublán, Chihuahua, México, on July 8, 1928, the eighth of nine children. He was the son of the late Claudious and Jennie...
Bennie Riches
Feb 28, 2015
Bennie B. Riches returned to his Heavenly Father on February 28, 2015 from complications of surgery. He was born on May 31, 1926 to his parents Benjamin O and Serelda Riches. He graduated from Spanish Fork High School. He worked at Geneva Steel and retired after 40 years. He worked as a Security Guard at Alpine School District for 5...
Harvey Dimond
Feb 26, 2015
Harvey Dale Dimond, 86 passed away peacefully at his home on February 26, 2015 after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was born in Magna, Utah on May 8, 1928 to Edwin and Hilma Dimond. He graduated from Cyprus High School and served an LDS mission to Hawaii in the Central Pacific Mission. While working as a mail carrier,...
Charles Monson
Feb 25, 2015
Charles Lavern Monson, 89, passed away peacefully on February 25, 2015 at the Veteran's Home in Payson. He was born on May 31, 1925 in Sutherland, Nebraska to Swan and Flora Monson. He married Dana Jones July 31, 1949 and were later divorced. He married Judith Lee Jones April 29, 1960. He graduated from Paxton Nebraska High School in 1942...
Genniel Dixon
Feb 24, 2015
Genniel Dixon passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 after a long illness. She was born in Vineyard, Utah as the fourth of five children to Ariel and Vera Larsen. She was born with a clubbed foot, and her parents were told at that time that she would probably never walk. However, she received compassionate care at Shriners Hospital...
Reed Bartlome
Feb 23, 2015
Reed Jay Bartlome, oldest son of Frank Jay Bartlome and Bertha Taylor Bartlome, was born on June 6, 1949 in Montpelier, Idaho, and passed away at the age of 65 in Provo, Utah on February 23, 2015 of natural causes. He served an honorable mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Texas North mission. He...
Violet Sabey
Feb 22, 2015
On Sunday February 22, 2015 the angels came to take our angelic mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother Violet Provost Sabey home to her Heavenly Father. She was born November 24, 1918 to Luke Elisha and Clarissa Bronson Provost in Midway, Utah. She was raised in Midway and graduated from Wasatch high school in Heber City, Utah. On August 29,...
Robert Downs
Feb 16, 2015
Robert (Bob) Henry Downs, 87 years of age, returned to his heavenly home on Saturday, February 14, of problems incident to his age. Born on a fruit farm in Orem, Utah on November 3rd, 1927, he was the youngest of six children of Clarence and Lois (Patten) Downs. He graduated from Lincoln High School before pursuing a degree in music...
Elizabeth Burr
Feb 14, 2015
Elizabeth Myrth Liston Burr peacefully returned to her Heavenly Father February 14, 2015 at the age of 93 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born March 9, 1921 to Hazel G. Riddle and Don Carlos Liston in Escalante, Utah. Myrth spent her early years living in Escalante, and Cedar City and moved to Orem, Utah to attend high school....
Don Ward
Feb 8, 2015
Don Thurlow Ward died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones at the age of 77. Don is survived by his wife Karen Edwards Ward; Daughter, Tamie Barnhurst (Blair) Lehi Utah; Daughter, Vicki Graff (Chris) St. George, Utah; Son, Brant Ward Provo, Utah; His Sister Marie Ward, Provo, Utah. He is preceded in death by his parents Bill & Della Ward. Don...
Iris Kling
Feb 5, 2015
Iris Mae Kling, 91, of Orem, Utah passed away peacefully due to natural causes on Feb. 5, 2015. She was born to Joseph and Stella Libby on Sep. 8, 1923. She married the late Robert Kling on Dec. 31, 1945. Iris was well known for her love of her family. She always remembered every name, and loved receiving updated pictures...
Lyn Erickson
Feb 4, 2015
Lyn Erickson passed away Tuesday, February 3rd at the age of 59. She was born, youngest of nine, to Eva and Ferron Collings on June 7th 1955. She worked as a Home Health and Hospice nurse for many years and loved what she did. In what free time she had she enjoyed keeping an immaculate garden and yard. She was...
