Obituaries
Orem, UT Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Orem & UT County area
Eugene Rawlings
Oct 7, 2014
Eugene Paul Rawlings of Orem, Utah passed away unexpectedly October 7, 2014 at age 76. He was born June 26, 1938 in Provo, Utah, a son of Paul Eugene and Bessie Smith Rawlings. He was a loving husband, amazing father, and beloved grandfather. Gene enjoyed, playing sports, outdoor recreation, horses, gardening, sports, travel, and spending time with grandchildren. He loved...
William Love
Oct 6, 2014
William Hall Love ,89, passed away on Monday, October 6, 2014 from complications incident to age. He was born in LaBelle, Jefferson, Idaho January 20, 1925 to Clarence Barnes Love and Florence May (Mazie) Hall Love. He graduated from Roberts High School and attended one year of college at Ricks College now BYU Idaho. He left to serve a mission...
Jock Walker
Oct 1, 2014
Jock Walker of Orem, Utah passed away on Sunday, the 5th of October, 2014 one week short of his 88th birthday. Right up to the time of his illness, Grandpa worked every day in his yard, performed his calling as a Sacrament Meeting Greeter, and enjoyed the company and accomplishments of his grandchildren. On Sunday, the 28th of September, he...
Wendell Gillman
Oct 1, 2014
Wendell Walker Gillman, 95, of Orem, Utah passed away peacefully on 22 October 2014, due to heart failure. Dad was born on 02 April 1919 in Orem, Utah to James William Gillman and Estella Walker Gillman. He was the sixth of ten children. Dad attended Pleasant Grove High School. He was active in football, basketball, track, school plays, and was...
Betsey Williams
Oct 1, 2014
Betsey Elizabeth Williams, 95, of Orem, Utah, died 14 October 2014 in Provo.
She was born April 4, 1919 to Everett Ethelbert and Edna Mertelle Libbey in Detroit, Maine.
Betsey attended Maine Central Institute, a private high school in Pittsfield, Maine; she graduated as Valedictorian of the Class of 1937. In 1942, she received a...
Ester Salazar
Oct 1, 2014
"Together Again" Esther T. Salazar slipped quietly out of this life at 1:50pm on Saturday afternoon, 4 October 2014. The viewing will be at the Provo Riverside Chapel at 300 West 3700 North, Provo, Utah 84604, on Wednesday at 9:45am. The Funeral will be at 11:00am. Esther is preceded in death by her husband, Epifanio C. Salazar; by four brothers,...
Dorothy Warner
Sep 30, 2014
Dorothy Marie Taylor Warner passed away Friday, September 26 in Orem, Utah at 94 years of age. She was born in Oakland, California on March 19, 1920 to Verne A. and Marie F. Taylor. She graduated from Evanston High School and attended the Business College in Ogallala, Nebraska. During her post high school summers she enjoyed working in Bryce Canyon...
Alejandro Jando
Sep 30, 2014
Alejandro P. Breton was born December 5, 1928 in Huamantla, Tlaxcala, son of Alejandro Breton Turnbull and Trinidad Palafox. He married Teresa Aiza Arandia on April 20, 1952 in Huamantla, Tlaxcala. Both raised 7 children on a journey from Loma Rica, Marysville and Sacramento, California to Mexico City, Mexico. Alejandro was a very dedicated worker having to learn English at...
Ethel Sorensen
Sep 29, 2014
Ethel Bernice Sorensen, 91, passed away peacefully at her home in Orem while holding the hand of her loving husband, Harvey, on September 29, 2014.
Bernice was born October 1, 1922 in Provo, Utah to Clifford and Lucy Waid. She was the youngest of 4 children.
In 1950, Bernice married Harvey Sorensen in...
Allen Hair
Sep 28, 2014
Allen Delamar Hair, 86, passed away at his home in Orem, Utah on September 28, 2014. He was born April 17, 1928 in Provo, Utah to Delamar Benjamin Hair and Zelma Dagmar Johnson. After graduating from Spanish Fork High School in 1946, he served a mission to the North Central States Mission. Allen graduated from Brigham Young University in 1951...
Evelyn Toone
Sep 26, 2014
Our dear mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Evelyn Rachel Davis Toone, passed away on September 26, 2014 at the age of 94. She slipped away peacefully surrounded by family. Evelyn was born May 21, 1920 in the Starr Community of Anderson, South Carolina to Calvin Leo and Rachel Elizabeth Hefner Davis. Raised in a southern mill town during the Great Depression,...
Eddis Fidel
Sep 24, 2014
Eddis May Johnson Fidel, 87, returned to her Father in Heaven Wednesday, Sept.24, 2014 after dying of conditions incident to age. Eddis was born May 23, 1927 in McCornick, Utah, the daughter of Jean Stephenson and Evan Johnson and had three siblings, Blanche, Bill and Carole. She graduated from Delta High School and then met Chad Joseph Fidel, the serviceman...
Trenton Neves
Sep 23, 2014
Trenton David Neves was born on September 13, 1984 to David Neves and Kate Wright in Orem, Utah. Trent was a curious one from the very beginning. Never one to be confined to one place, he was constantly in motion. Whether he was chasing squirrels or building forts as a boy or hiking and fishing as a young man, he...
Marcos Valadez
Sep 18, 2014
Marcos F. Valadez passed away on September 18, 2014. He was born on December 8, 1996 at Orem Community Hospital to Billy Joe Hyden and German Valadez. He was a senior at Polaris High School. He lived with his Grandmother Shauna Hyden in Orem, Utah. He is preceded in death by his Grandfather, Kyle Hyden. He is survived by German...
Brent Lambert
Sep 9, 2014
Brent W. Lambert passed away peacefully in his sleep of natural causes on September 9, 2014 at the age of 45. Brent was born in Twin Falls, Idaho to Robert and Julie Smith Lambert. He was married to Michelle Duerden in 1996. Brent obtained his masters degree at St. Andrews College in Scotland and later furthered his education at Utah...
Mary Birk
Sep 8, 2014
On September 4th,2014 with her children by her side, our precious beloved Mother, grandmother, great grand mother, and great great grandmother was called home. She was just shy of her hundredth birthday. Born in Magna, Utah to Alfred Row Clinger and Josephine Hansen. She married Albert Thornton Birk in American Fork, Utah. They had four children Richard (Jenelle), Diana Adair...
Glen Ivie
Sep 8, 2014
Glen passed away peacefully in his sleep on September 8, 2014, at his home in Provo. Born in Heber Utah, on October 18, 1940, to Earl and Mildred Ivie. Glen spent most of his life in Provo, retiring from Geneva Steel after 22 years. Glen had many hobbies, including fishing, hunting, and collecting antiques. He was giving, generous, and always...
Sr. Lloyd Harline
Sep 4, 2014
Lloyd Arnold Harline, Sr., passed away on August 30 due to complications from multiple myeloma cancer and a serious fall. Born in South Gate, CA to Horace and Lorine (Krebs) Harline, "Lube" grew up in nearby Walteria with six siblings, in a home built by their construction-working father. The Depression gave Lloyd plenty of chances to work, but he also...
Jack Jones
Sep 4, 2014
Jack D. Jones passed away on Wednesday, September 4, 2014 at his home in Orem, Utah. For many years the first thing I did in the morning was to check the obituaries and see if I was there and, if I was there, I wasn't going to do anything else the rest of the day. Today I found me there....
Edith Walker
Aug 28, 2014
On Sunday August 24th 2014 our beloved mother, grandmother, sister and friend, Edith LaRue Powell Walker, age 92, passed away peacefully from conditions incident to age. Edith was born March 24, 1922 in Magrath, Alberta, Canada to Shirlef Powell and Florence Reece Powell. She was the second child born to the family of seven children. When she was 13 years...