Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Families in Utah County, Utah

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...

Gary Daniel Peay

Gary Daniel Peay

May 26, 2022

Gary Daniel Peay was reunited with his eternal sweetheart, O'leah Garlick, on May 26th, 2022. Gary was born to Leslie and Cleone Peay on August 24th, 1936, in Provo, Utah. He joined his sister Marge and was later followed by his sisters, Carol, Nyleen, Anne, Linda, and his brother Larry Paul. It was in this home he learned to...

Susan Delene Wood

Susan Delene Wood

May 26, 2022

Susan DeLene Harris Wood, born March 17, 1951, returned to her Heavenly Father on May 26, 2022. Her sudden passing has been heartbreaking to all who knew and loved her.

Susie was born in Stockton, California, and raised in San Pedro, California. She was a ray of sunshine from the beginning. She was born to Delbert Pierre...

Robert John Blake

Robert John Blake

May 24, 2022

R. John Blake of Orem, Utah died peacefully in his sleep on May 24th, 2022.

John was born the oldest son to Robert and Ruby Blake in 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Growing up he loved drawing, coin and stamp collecting, and golfing. He was an Eagle Scout. He graduated from South High School and the...

Ferneth Brown Courtright

Ferneth Brown Courtright

May 24, 2022

Ferneth Brown Courtright passed away on May 24, 2022 at the age of 87. She was born September 2, 1934 in Virden, New Mexico, to Floyd and Elmina Brown, the sixth of eight children. The family lived and farmed in Virden and Kirtland, New Mexico. The family lost two siblings as children, then her mother died in 1946 and...

Sharon Lynn Fitch

Sharon Lynn Fitch

May 23, 2022

SHARON LYNN POTTER FITCH

February 17, 1938 - May 23, 2022

Sharon Lynn Potter Fitch passed away peacefully on May 23, 2022, from natural causes incident with age. Hers was a remarkable life filled with love for her family, the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and generous service to others.

Sharon was born...

Betty Clements Ericksen

Betty Clements Ericksen

May 23, 2022

Betty Clements Ericksen passed away on Monday, May 23, 2022 at the age of 88. She was born on April 1, 1934, on Easter Sunday in American Fork, Utah to Ezra Albert Clements and Elsie Vernetta Savage Clements. Betty was 13 of 15 children. She married her sweetheart, Leo Henry Ericksen Jr. on August 21, 1952 in Salt Lake...