Orem, UT Obituaries

Mell Nielsen

Apr 15, 2016

Mell Jarvis Whiting Nielsen, 1929- 2016

Mell Jarvis Whiting Nielsen passed away surrounded by family members on April 15,2016 at Timpanogos Regional Hospital. She was born on May 18, 1929 in Kirtland,New Mexico to Francis Marion and Susie Jarvis Whiting. She was the 9th child of her father and the 6th of her mother.

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Marvin Christensen

Apr 14, 2016

Marvin Kay Christensen gracefully passed from this life to the next, on April 14, 2016, in American Fork.

He was the born in Orem, Utah on June 22, 1931, to Victor and Evelyn Christensen. He was the first born of four boys.

He attended and graduated from Lincoln High School, where he met Bernice Nuttall....

Belva Jones

Apr 13, 2016

Belva Wentz Jones passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 in Orem, Utah.

I was born October 17, 1929 on Provo Bench (now called Orem).  My parents are Charles Mastin Wentz and Belva Hills Wentz.  They had nine children.  My two brothers and six sisters are still my best friends.

I went to school in...

Amelia Matthews

Apr 10, 2016

Amelia was born December 10, 1930 in Raleigh, North Carolina to DeVan and Elizabeth

(Faucette) Barbour. She had an older brother, DeVan, Jr. Amelia was named for her maternal

grandmother, Amelia Taylor Faucette. Until she reached high school age, she was known as

Amelia Ann.

Amelia’s father, DeVan Sr. was married...

June Crowther Summers

Apr 9, 2016

June was born August 26, 1924 in Magna, Utah to Leah Shelton Larsen and Vorris DeLoran Justesen and died in her sleep at the Sunrise Hospice Care home in Orem, Utah on April 9, 2016, at age 91. June had an older sister, Marie and a younger brother, Vorris Dee. When she was 13 years old, her family moved...

Gwenavere Noble

Apr 8, 2016

Gwenavere (Gwen) Noble, wife of the late Wendell Noble, passed away on April 8, 2016 at the Cove Point Assisted Living Center in Provo, Utah. Honoring Gwen’s request, her family will receive friends at a gathering to celebrate her life on Monday, April 18, 2016 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 495 South State, Orem, Utah....

Marilyn Williamson

Apr 8, 2016

On the evening of April 8, 2016, our wife, mother, grandmother, and friend passed away surrounded by her loving family.

She was born in Salt Lake City Utah April 2, 1932 to Ralph and Frances Nielsen Duke. We had just celebrated her 84th birthday.

Mom grew up in Provo, Utah, the little sister to three...

Lanell Read

Apr 3, 2016

LaNell Hooper Read age 83 passed away peacefully on April 3, 2016. LaNell was born in Kelsey, TX on June 30, 1932 to William Harvey Hooper and Early Belle Bryant. At an early age she moved from Texas to Star Valley, WY. Later she moved to Ogden, UT. She graduated from Ogden High School and later from Thomas-Dee Memorial...

Don Sterrett

Apr 1, 2016

Don Clifton Sterrett, 78, of Spanish Fork, passed away March 29, 2016. Funeral services will be held Monday, April 4, 2016, at 10:00 am in the Sundberg-Olpin Funeral Home, 495 South State Street in Orem. A viewing will be held on Monday one hour prior to the services. Interment will be in the Samaria Idaho Cemetery.

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Florence Payne

Mar 26, 2016

Our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, Florence Norene Payne died peacefully early, March 26th, 2016, just before her 96th birthday. She returned to the arms of her husband, and many others who were joyfully awaiting her arrival. Norene was born on April 9, 1920 in Hurricane Utah to Robert and Rosalie Cornelius Stratton who were original pioneers. She...

Richard Barker

Mar 25, 2016

Richard Ellis Barker, 85, passed away March 25, 2016 in Orem, Utah. Richard was born November 11, 1930 in Salt Lake City to Ellis Webster Barker and Virginia Freeze. He and his sweetheart, Ilamae Hansen, were married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1954. He was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a...

Clifford Foutin

Mar 22, 2016

"Together Again"

Clifford Duane Foutin (Fautin) Nickname Bob, 92 passed away into his heavenly fathers loving arms. Reunited with his sweetheart Elise Beth Russell Foutin, and surrounded by loved ones in his home. Born in Monroe, Sevier County Utah until, at the age of five where they then moved to Utah County. Bob was the youngest of five...

Christopher Allen

Mar 21, 2016

Christopher Troy Allen (age 16) son of Sharlene Hansen and Troy Robinson Allen (Rita), left his home on earth March 21, 2016. Christopher was born December 1, 1999 in Orem, Utah and loved his older sister Andrea Fern Allen Martinez (Peter). He appreciated a variety of music, and at age three sat spell-bound through a performance of the 1812 Overture....

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,...