Obituaries
David Glenn
Jun 5, 2014
There will be Memorial Services in Texas at a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
Ray Eugene Gilley
Jun 2, 2014
Our son father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, and son, Ray E. Gilley, age, 59, passed away June 2, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born January 1, 1955 to Raymond Arthur and Darlene Elliot Gilley. Ray married Patricia Carter. He joined the U.S. Army from 1974 -1981. Serving in Alaska, Germany, Dugway, Proving ground Utah. He was...
Kenneth "Ken" Huber
May 25, 2014
Kenneth "Ken" Huber, age 80, of LaPoint passed away peacefully at home with family by his side May 25, 2014, on the ranch where he was born and raised. He was born August 19, 1933, to Frank and Ardith Neilson Huber. He married the love of his life, JoeAnn Shepard of Bridgeland, UT on November 3, 1956. Ken and JoeAnn...
Carrie Lynn Campbell Keel
May 24, 2014
Funeral Services Carrie Campbell Keel 49, of Vernal wife of Robert Keel will be Wed at 11 am at the Ashley 1st Ward LDS Chapel friends and family may call at Blackburn Vernal Mortuary Tues. 6-8 pm and at the chapel on Weds. 9:45-10:45 burial will in the Avolan Cemetery. Services have been entrusted to the care of the Blackburn...
Holland Hughes
May 13, 2014
Holland Hughes, age 86, passed away Tuesday, May 13, 2014 just two days after is daughters death, Deborah Hanson. Holland was born in Tenneville, Albama to John and Lula Hughes. He served in the Army from 1945 to 1947. There will be a private family viewing Friday, May 16, 2014 @ 4 p.m. @ The Blackburn Vernal Mortuary. Burial will...
Deborah Hughes Hanson
May 11, 2014
Funeral Mass for Deborah Lee Hughes Hanson "Deb Horrocks", age 60, wife of Robert Hanson, Will be conducted on Friday, May 16, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church in Whiterocks. She will be taken to her home on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. for a wake. Burial will be in the Tridell Cemetery; Services...
Dell P. Hunting
May 9, 2014
Funeral Services for Dell P. Hunting, age 79 life time resident of Vernal, passed away at the Uintah Care Center on May 9, 2014. He was born October 9, 1934 in Vernal to Earl and Phillis Williams Hunting. He worked as a truck driver in the Oil Field. As a young boy he worked with his dad and brother logging...
E. Jay Haslem
May 9, 2014
Elmer Jay Haslem passed away on Friday, May 9, 2014 at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal, Utah. He was born to Von Haslem and Florence Richens Johnson on July 30, 1931 in Vernal. He married Joy Louise Ainge on July 28, 1951 in Winnemucca, Nevada. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple on June 15, 1962....
Joe Urban
May 9, 2014
Joseph Albert Urban, age 65, passed away Friday, May 9, 2014 at his home in Mack, Colorado, after a courageous battle with COPD. Joseph was born to Joseph Adam and Margaret Mollendor Urban, November 6, 1948 in Denver CO. He was one of six children. He attended schools in Denver, and graduated from High School in Iliff, CO. He was...
Donna Lloyd
May 5, 2014
Donna Lou Pallesen Lloyd, 77 years of age, of Manila, Utah, passed on May 5, 2014, in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a long illness. Donna was born in Maeser, Utah, on July 31, 1936, to Jerome C. Smiley and Fon Potter. Fon later married Doyle Slagowski and together they raised Donna and four other children. Donna grew up living...
Sandra Aldridge
May 4, 2014
Sandra Powell Aldridge, age 76 of Vernal, passed away from cancer at her home on May 4, 2014, with her granddaughters holding her hand. She was born September 26, 1937 in Cedarview, Utah to James Lott and Iva Ellen Nelson Powell. She loved growing up on the family farm and "running the hills" with her large family, and friends. She...
Ethel M. Hall
May 1, 2014
Ethel May Hall, age 88, passed away May 1, 2014 at the Uintah Care Center. She was born October 13, 1925 in Nora, Colorado to Bert and Eliza Paxten Frazier. She lived most of her life in Colorado. Funeral services will be Monday, May 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at the Blackburn Vernal Mortuary. Friends and family may call from...
Twila Cochran
Apr 30, 2014
Twila Rae Cochran was born April 7, 1931 in Lapoint, Utah, the first of seven children, to Vera Christina Lee and Raymond Miles Bigelow. She grew up enjoying swimming in the canal, riding Old Nig, and riding her new bicycle. The dreaded experience of her youth was herding the turkeys and keeping them out of the greasewood which was a...
Billy Don Harp
Apr 23, 2014
Billy Don Bill Harp, age 77, of Meeker, Colorado, passed away at the Grand Junction VA Medical Center on April 23, 2014. He was born November 10, 1936 in Rifle, Colorado to Harry and Florence Parker Harp. He was the youngest of five children. He attended Rio Blanco High School and graduated in 1955. He enlisted in the US Army...
Gail Chiyoka Caldwell
Apr 21, 2014
Gail Chiyoko Yoshida Caldwell, age 84, passed away April 21, 2014 at the Walbridge Wing in Meeker, Colorado. She was the second daughter to Hamakichi and Hana Yoshida in Fujisawa Takazagun, Japan. Chiyoko married the love of her life Victor D. Caldwell on January 9, 1953 in Japan, while Vic was serving in the Korean War. In November 1953, Vic...
Lorna Condon
Apr 21, 2014
Lorna Condon, age 100, Longtime Vernal resident passed away April 21, 2014 in Vernal, Utah. She was born in Vernal on March 29, 1914 to Ezra and Alice Hacking Merkley. Lorna attended Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1931 to 1935, where she earned a degree in Home Economics with an emphasis on nutrition. She also met her husband to be...
Boyd Bowen
Apr 20, 2014
Boyd Orr Bowden, formulary of the Uintah Basin, age 87, passed away April 23, 2014 in California. He was born September 9, 1927 to John Frank and Anna Marie Bowden. He worked as a Mill worker for Lumber Production Company. Burial will be in the Myton Cemetery, services have been entrusted to the care of the Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
Dave Mecham
Apr 19, 2014
Dave B. Mecham, 34, of Williston, North Dakota, formerly of Vernal, Utah, passed away Saturday night, April 19, 2014, the result of a motorcycle accident west of Williston. Dave B. Mecham was born July 29, 1979, to Darrell and Ann (Gilbert) Mecham in Roosevelt, Utah. He was raised and educated there graduating in 1997 from Union High School. On December...
Raymond A. Gilley
Apr 14, 2014
Our father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend Raymond Arthur Gilley passed away April 14, 2014. Born in Salt Lake City on October 28, 1937 to Ernest Newton Gilley and Alice Ann Green, Ray was the second of 5 children. Ray attended West High School and was active in the marching band and later played in the Post Office marching band....
Alvin Zufelt
Apr 6, 2014
Alvin J. Zufelt, 83, died of Kidney failure on April 6, 2014 at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal, Utah. He was born in Duchesne, Utah on January 16, 1931, and grew up in Heber City, Utah. Alvin married Betty Ann Clary in 1973. She died in 2003. He worked in the restaurant business most of his life. He loved...
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