Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Families in Utah County, Utah

George Richard Ryskamp

George Richard Ryskamp

Jul 1, 2022

George Richard Ryskamp

6 May 1950 - 1 July 2022

Surrounded in love by his wife and four children, George Richard Ryskamp died peacefully on

1 July 2022 at Utah Valley Medical Center in Provo, Utah.

George was born on 6 May 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, to Rix and Clarice Ryskamp....

Judith Charlotte Pavia

Judith Charlotte Pavia

Jun 28, 2022

Judith Charlotte Pavia, 81, of Saratoga Springs, Utah, passed away on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at Highland Glen Memory Care Home in Highland, Utah. Judy was born on July 14, 1940 in Syracuse, New York to John and Marjorie Goodness Hayford. On May 13, 1961, she married Leonard Prosper Pavia in Pocatello, Idaho. Their marriage was sealed in the...

Cleo Buchanan

Cleo Buchanan

Jun 28, 2022

Park City, UT—Cleo Baker Buchanan passed from this life on June 27, 2022. She was born January 14, 1928.

Cleo will be remembered for a life of generosity and service. She kept her family close and provided a lifetime of loving care to each of her children and grandchildren. She lived in service to friends, always understanding...

Barry Lamar Bartlett

Barry Lamar Bartlett

Jun 28, 2022

Ever the lover of a good fireworks display, Barry LaMar Bartlett (aka Papa Bear) "shot on over" to the other side when he quite suddenly graduated this life on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. It appears the giant heart beating in his chest just simply needed more room to grow, more people to love and more kingdom building work to...

Alma Delia Zepeda

Alma Delia Zepeda

Jun 27, 2022

Alma Delia Zepeda, 46 of Orem, passed away Monday, June 27, 2022. Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, July 1, 2022 at 6:00 pm in the St. Francis of Assisi Church, 65 East 500 North, Orem. Family and friends may visit that evening at the church from 4-6pm.

Condolences may be offered to the family online...

Harvey Bruce Higley

Harvey Bruce Higley

Jun 23, 2022

Harvey Bruce Higley passed away in his home at the age of 81 on Thursday, June 23, 2022 of heart failure.

Bruce was born July 23, 1940 in Soda Springs, Idaho to John Warren Higley and Martha Lovenia Stones. Growing up he developed a strong work ethic that shaped his entire life. His mother passed away when...

Ruby Dee Christensen

Ruby Dee Christensen

Jun 23, 2022

Ruby Dee Aaron was born on Wednesday, January 7, 1925, in the tiny east-central Oklahoma hamlet of Vivian, in McIntosh County. She passed away on Thursday, June 23, 2022, in Provo, Utah, after 97 years, six month, two weeks, and two days.

Number eight in a family of 11—five brothers and five sisters—Ruby spent her early years...

Robert Garratt Ogden

Robert Garratt Ogden

Jun 18, 2022

Robert Garratt Ogden was released from the limits of his mortal body on June 18th, 2022 at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He passed from this life peacefully after a week-long battle with injuries and complications from a motor vehicle accident.

Garratt was born on July 3rd, 1978 to Robert Edward and Diane Louder...

R. Bruce Bruce Barrett

R. Bruce Bruce Barrett

Jun 14, 2022

Bruce was born in Pocatello Idaho May 21, 1946, to Richard and Rhea Barrett. Early on, he moved with his family to Long Beach California where he lived for his elementary, Middle, and High school years. While attending Millikan High School, Bruce had many friends and was very involved in activities like student government, vocal music, football, basketball, and...

William Frank Dixon

William Frank Dixon

Jun 10, 2022

William (Bill) Frank Dixon passed away peacefully in his home on June 10th, 2022. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend. He was loved by all!

Bill was born August 4th, 1944 in Provo, Ut. to Glenn & Elva Dixon. He had an adventurous, and silly side to him that will be greatly missed!...

Norma Margaret Chandler

Norma Margaret Chandler

Jun 9, 2022

Norma Chandler, born Norma Margaret MacKinnon, entered this world on December 15, 1931 in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her father, Oliver MacKinnon, was a business owner, mechanic, and real estate investor. Her mother, Barbara Birt MacKinnon, was a school teacher.

Norma was raised in Somerville, Massachusetts, spending many of her summers "down east" on one of two family farms...

William Pine Neally

William Pine Neally

Jun 6, 2022

William (Bill) Pine Neally, age 95, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2022, of causes incident with age. William was born in Kirksville, Missouri, to John Jay Neally and Ellen Edna Bruce. He grew up in Missouri on a farm during the great depression and enlisted in the Navy at the beginning of WWII. After boot camp, he was...

Robert Steven Hatch

Robert Steven Hatch

Jun 6, 2022

Robert Steven Hatch age 73, passed away June 6th, 2022 born in Heber City Utah March 31st, 1949 to Robert K and Alice Pace Hatch. Spent most of his life in the Spanish Fork, Utah area. He was married to Matilda Tafoya for 4 years and they had 3 children Nicki, Steven Jr. and Thomas Hatch.

He...

Anna Marie Peterson

Anna Marie Peterson

Jun 4, 2022

Anna Marie Josephson Peterson was born by coal oil lamplight in a log cabin April 20, 1933, in Plymouth Utah. She was the second child of Sylvan Oleen Josephson and Jeanette Williams. Anna grew up in a loving family on the family farm in Plymouth, where she learned the values of hard work, hospitality, and poise and grace, which...

James Taylor Duke

James Taylor Duke

Jun 2, 2022

October 8, 1933 to June 2, 2022

James Taylor Duke passed away on June 2nd in his home of 50 years, surrounded by his family. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, and was deeply loved by his posterity. Jim was a kind and gentle man, who will be dearly missed by his beloved...

Amy Fiene

Amy Fiene

Jun 2, 2022

Amy Fiene, 44, of Provo, UT, passed away after a long struggle with depression and mental illness. Amy was born in Henderson, NV, on Jan 22, 1978, to Marinus and Victoria (Cummings) Baadsgaard. After getting degrees in Mechanical Engineering at University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and Stanford in Palo Alto, CA, she got a Juris Doctor degree at...

Don Keith Whatcott

Don Keith Whatcott

Jun 1, 2022

It is with sorrow that we announce the death of our Father, Grandfather, and Husband Dr. Don Keith Whatcott DDS (93), who passed away on June 1st, 2022

Keith was born in a small home on May 13, 1929, in Provo, to Hearl Devello and Valera (Snow) Whatcott. He grew up in a loving family of four...

Hailey Marie Westmoreland

Hailey Marie Westmoreland

May 29, 2022

On May 29th 2022 Hailey Marie Westmoreland returned home to our loving Heavenly Father.

Hailey enjoyed spending time with her family and making memories. She liked to go camping and go swimming. She loved to do her hair and make-up and do some shopping. She also enjoyed watching her cooking and crime shows. Hailey would also spend...

David Fred Peck

David Fred Peck

May 28, 2022

David Fred Peck of Orem, Utah passed away May 28, 2022. He was born August 8, 1970, in Provo, Utah.

He was the eldest son of Jack & DeAnn (Dowling) Peck.

David lived in Orem, Utah with the love of his life, Vicky Willingham who he married on April 26, 2006.

When David...

Joye Bennion

Joye Bennion

May 27, 2022

Joye McRae Bennion was born on April 23, 1925, in Casa Grande, Arizona, to Laura Zelma Morris McRae and William August McRae. She was the second of three children; her older sister, Jean McRae Hardy, and her younger brother, Robert Morris McRae, both preceded her in death.

As a young woman, Joye McRae studied sociology at the...