Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Families in Utah County, Utah

Betsy Elizabeth Anne Sears Christensen

Betsy Elizabeth Anne Sears Christensen

Feb 27, 2022

Elizabeth "Betsy" Christensen, beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, died February 27th, 2022, peacefully at her home in Orem, Utah. She was 91 years old. Betsy was born to John Leslie and Elizabeth Wilson Reynolds on August 1, 1930 in Salt Lake City, Utah. After her father died when she was three, her mother married Gordon H. Sears whose surname...

Jackson Todd Hansen

Jackson Todd Hansen

Feb 26, 2022

Jackson Todd Hansen was born on May 19th, 1993, in Provo, Utah. He was 28 years old when he passed away in his home in Orem, Utah. He will be remembered by his family and friends as a kind and giving person. He could light up any room with his humor and big smile. He made those around him feel...

Phyllis Nibley

Phyllis Nibley

Feb 25, 2022

Phyllis Ann Hawkes Draper Nibley was born August 2, 1926, in Salt Lake City Utah, to Edla Kristina Charlotte Peterson Hawkes and Frederick Pratt Hawkes, and died February 25, 2022, aged 95, of natural causes and being just really, really tired. Before she was two, Phyllis's parents divorced. A few years afterwards, Edla married Otto Ludwig Draper, who later adopted...

Sterling Pritchett

Sterling Pritchett

Feb 24, 2022

Sterling Pritchett was a caring husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend. He left this world on February 24, 2022, at the age of 75, after complications from a sudden stroke. He was surrounded by his family, and was greeted on the other side by many loved ones. He was born in Portland, Oregon on August 7, 1946 to Hope and...

Linda Gay Cowburn

Linda Gay Cowburn

Feb 24, 2022

Linda Gay Utley Cowburn, 74 of Orem, Utah, passed away on February 24th at 7:11 PM with all of her children surrounding her, her grandchildren down the hall on their knees, holding hands while they prayed for their Heavenly Father to help her feel safe and to go to the light with Grandpa. Linda was born on May 4, 1947...

Thomas Lee Sutton

Thomas Lee Sutton

Feb 21, 2022

"Marvelous!" was the word Thomas Lee Sutton used most often to describe the moments, experiences, people and teachings that mattered most to him. On this day, Monday, February 21, 2022, as we say goodbye to this loving, conscientious, faithful, caring, funny and resourceful man, marvelous is the word that infuses our hearts as we contemplate his remarkable life. Born on...

Ann Taylor Meyers

Ann Taylor Meyers

Feb 20, 2022

February 22, 1949 - February 20, 2022 Ann Taylor Meyers returned to her Heavenly Father on February 20, 2022, while surrounded by her family at her home, after succumbing to a terminal disease, ALS, with which she suffered for over two years. Throughout her life, Ann was first and foremost a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother, and she considered those...

Cindy Lynn Tiede

Cindy Lynn Tiede

Feb 19, 2022

In Loving Tribute Our precious daughter, Cindy Lynn Jackman Tiede, returned home to her loving Father in Heaven on February 19, 2022 at Country Life Care Center in Riverton. Cindy was born on April 18, 1966, in Glendale, California to LeGrand & Judy Jackman. Cindy graduated from Orem High School in 1984. She attended BYU and met her future husband,...

Richard Earl Decker

Richard Earl Decker

Feb 18, 2022

Richard Earl Decker On February 18, 2022, Richard Decker (72) returned to his Heavenly Father due to heart complications experienced while doing something he loved – working in his yard. He was born February 5, 1950 in Payson, Utah to Edith Simmons and Bryant Frisby Decker. He was the second of three sons. He married Diann Rymer Waddill on November...

Dale Ray Mcquillan

Dale Ray Mcquillan

Feb 16, 2022

Dale Ray McQuillan 9/16/1944 - 2/16/2022. It is with heavy heart that we announce the passing of Dale Ray McQuillan. He fought a long and valiant battle with covid. Dale was born September 16, 1944 to Albert and Agnes McQuillan in Murray, Utah. He attend schools in Murray and graduated from Murray High School. Dale was drafted into the Army...

Lineal Gerald Floyd

Lineal Gerald Floyd

Feb 15, 2022

Lineal "Gerald" Floyd, age 80 of Ola passed away Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at his home in Arkansas. Gerald was born November 8, 1941 in Modesto, California to the ale Lineal Thomas & Louise Gallaway Floyd. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a Marine Veteran and a retired sawmill worker. He...

Elmer Louis Mogensen

Elmer Louis Mogensen

Feb 15, 2022

Elmer Louis Mogensen of Orem, Utah passed away peacefully on February 15, 2022 at the age of 88. He was born in Brainerd, Minnesota to Betsy and Fred Mogensen. He was the youngest of eleven children. On the date of May 29, 1953 at the age of 20 he enlisted in the army and served until May 27, 1955. On...

Marie Draney

Marie Draney

Feb 12, 2022

Marie Ardell Ware "Lynne" Draney—January 26,1940 - February 12, 2022 Lynne Draney passed away February 12, 2022, with her daughter Mary and granddaughter Marley by her side. Lynne was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. She was lovingly referred to as "Pinky" by her grandfather which quickly became a nickname she carried throughout her early life. Lynne was kind,...

Annette Potts

Annette Potts

Feb 9, 2022

Annette "Annie" Durrant Potts, 67, was born on February 6, 1955, and died February 9, 2022 in Orem, Utah after long years of ailments. Annette was born and raised in Lindon, Utah to James Eugene Durrant and Betty Jean Durrant, and was raised with 7 siblings. She went through school in Lindon/Pleasant Grove and graduated from Pleasant Grove High School....

Kimiko Yamamuro Sink

Kimiko Yamamuro Sink

Feb 6, 2022

Kimiko Y. Sink passed away in the home of her son in Orem, Utah on February 6, 2022. She was born in Chiba, Japan, on August 5, 1927 and spent her childhood in Japan, stealing figs from the neighbor's tree and watching her grandfather tend bonsai. In her teens she moved with her mother and stepfather to China and eventually...

Bing Christensen

Bing Christensen

Feb 4, 2022

Bing Christensen One of the great land surveyors of the West has finally traversed his last range line, taken his last backsight, and pounded his last rebar. Our beloved husband, father, brother, grandfather, and great grandfather, Bing Christensen, 79, passed away on February 4th, 2022, at his home in the presence of loved ones. He was the endlessly grateful husband...

Garry Lee Guymon

Garry Lee Guymon

Feb 3, 2022

Garry Lee Guymon, 85, beloved brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather was called home to his Heavenly Father on February 3, 2022, surrounded by his family and sweetheart. Garry was born in his grandmother's house in Ucon, Idaho on Dec. 12, 1936, to Lila and Ferrell Guymon. The young family soon after purchased an 80-acre farm where they all...

Diane Halls

Diane Halls

Feb 2, 2022

Diane Anderson Halls died peacefully in her sleep on Feb 2, 2022. She was born Jan 1, 1942 in LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT. She was the only child of Harold and Lorene Anderson and was mostly raised in Vernal Utah. Diane lived in San Diego and Phoenix briefly before moving to Vernal where she grew & was raised....

Carole Sue Larsen

Carole Sue Larsen

Feb 2, 2022

Carole Sue Larsen passed away peacefully on the morning of February 2nd 2022 in Orem Utah. She was born December 28th, 1938 in Fort Riley Kansas to Eugene and Fern Joffray. She was the youngest of three children born into that family. She grew up in Junction City Kansas as her father was in the military and stationed at Fort...

Carol Patterson

Carol Patterson

Feb 1, 2022

Carol Michie Patterson, age 86, passed away peacefully surrounded by her children, Tuesday February 1, 2022, of natural causes incident to age. Carol was born December 13, 1935 in Upalco, Utah, to G. Kenneth and Yoma Michie. She was raised in Midway, Utah, and graduated from Wasatch High School and LDS Seminary. She graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree...