Obituaries
Cinder Marie Chivers
Jun 13, 2012
Cinder Marie Chivers, age 21 of Whiterocks, Utah passed away at the University Of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City on June 13, 2012 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Cinder was born in Roosevelt, Utah on December 28, 1990 to Willis and Rena Christensen Chivers. She grew up in Whiterocks and attended school in the basin. She was...
Joan Valent
Jun 9, 2012
Joan Martin Valent, age 74, of Vernal passed away at the Uintah Care Center on June 9, 2012. She was born on June 20, 1937 in Newark, New Jersey to Elsie Elias and Frank Martin. She was raised in Kenilworth, New Jersey and lived in Florida for 15 years before moving to Utah. Joan worked as a waitress in Florida...
Frank Allen
Jun 8, 2012
Frank Dan Allen was born November 26, 1927 in Ogden, Utah to Andrew Ezra and Dorothy Reader Allen. He passed away June 8, 2012 at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal, Utah. Frank was named after a grandfather and uncle. He attended school at Maeser Elementary, Uintah High School and in Richmond California. Frank married Echo Merkley December 27, 1950...
Harold Nash
Jun 8, 2012
Harold Kenneth Nash, age 66 of Vernal, passed away June 9, 2012 at Ashley Regional Medical Center from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. He was born December 25, 1945 in Cooksville, Tennessee to Doyle and Bonnie Ray Nash. He moved to the Vernal area in the 1970s and married Elaine Steinaker Lund on November 1, 1986. He retired from...
Troy Vaughn Harrell
Jun 5, 2012
Gerald and Margatett Harrell will lay their youngest son, Troy Vaughn Harrell, to rest on June 9, 2012. Troy was born December 10, 1982 in Vernal, Utah. He lettered in football and graduated with the Uintah High school class of 1992. He worked in the oilfield, and for the last several years, was a driller for Craigs Roustabout in Vernal....
Elaine Rich
May 29, 2012
An amazing lady, Elaine Fay Soderquist Rich, age 88 of Vernal, has passed on. She was born on April 15, 1924 in Sunnyside, Utah to Carl Arthur and Marie Wiest Soderquist. She married Kenneth Rich in August of 1942. He passed away in 1993. There was not much that Elaine could not do. She could go from irrigation boots and...
Catherine Chamberlain Perry
May 24, 2012
Born Catherine Carla Elizabeth, to Swedish immigrants Carl and Helga Elstad in Minneapolis, MN on Nov 12, 1928, Catherine died of pneumonia complications on May 24, 2012 in Vernal. Most of her life, she was an active member in community service including Kingsbury Community Church, the PEO sisterhood, Pink Ladies and Rotary International. An avid reader, she worked at Bittercreek...
Mark Hatch
May 22, 2012
Mark Hatch left this world on the morning of May 22nd, 2012 at the age of 59 at his home in Vernal, Utah. Mark E. Hatch was born on April 4th, 1953 in Vernal Utah to Enis and Leah Mae Hatch of Tridell Utah. Mark was married to Sue Searle on August 17th, 1972 in the Ladder Day Saint Salt...
Alex Mott
May 21, 2012
Funeral services for Alex Mott, age 25 of Vernal, son of Kimberly Hamilton will be held Friday May 25, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the Blackburn Mortuary. A viewing will be 1 hour prior to services at the mortuary. Burial will be in the Rockpoint Cemetery under the care and direction of the Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
Helen Clark
May 17, 2012
Helen Mar Warburton Clark, age 88 of Vernal, lost her long hard battle with Alzheimers disease at her home on May 17, 2012 surrounded by her loving family. She was born October 3, 1923 in Lapoint, Utah to Floyd and Eva Wardell Warburton. She attended Alterra High School and married Daniel Clark on June 8, 1943 in Vernal. Together they...
Carl J. Winward
May 14, 2012
Carl Jay Winward, age 82 of Vernal, Utah passed away on May 14, 2012 at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal. Jay was born September 29, 1929 in Vernal, Utah to Joseph Hicks and Lizzie Winward. He loved to fish and hunt. He spent his life enjoying and supporting his family. He was employed by Deseret Industries. He will be...
Steven E. Beasley
May 10, 2012
Steven E. Beasley age 44 of Vernal passed away May 10, 2012 at the University Of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born in Sapula, Oklahoma on July 15, 1967 to Sam and Rose Mary Beasley. Steve worked at Jacks General Tire, Udells Cabinets, where he was a master woodworker, Tri-State Land Survey, National Oil Well Varco,...
Asa Johnston
May 4, 2012
Asa Robert Johnston, age 89 of Vernal passed away at Ashley Regional Medical Center on May4, 2012. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 16, 1922 to Robert Lewis and Pearl Oakley Johnston. He graduated from Uintah High School in 1940 at attended college for a short time, but returned home to Jensen to help his father...
Clayton Slaugh
May 2, 2012
Clayton John Slaugh, age 86, of Vernal, Utah, returned to his Heavenly Father and his eternal sweetheart on their 65th wedding anniversary May 2, 2012. Clayton was born May 12, 1925 in Vernal, Utah. He was the second of seven boys born to Rena (Rinske) Postma and Charles David Slaugh. At the age of 18, he was drafted into WWII...
William Bagley
Apr 29, 2012
William A. Bagley, age 85 of Vernal, passed away peacefully at the Uintah Care Center on April 29, 2012. Bill was born in Corona, California on May 13, 1926 to Robert Henry and Bessie Edith Shoole Bagley. He and his parents moved to Vernal in the late 1930s. As a young boy Bill helped his parents run the Pony Express...
Jean Kump
Apr 28, 2012
Wanda Jean Scott Kump was born on September 14, 1934 to Elmer ODell and Alice Louise Pace Scott in Wright City, Oklahoma at the home of her maternal grandparents. She grew up in Oklahoma and started school in a one room schoolhouse. Her family moved to Artesia, Colorado-known as Dinosaur- in January of 1948. She finished the 8th grade in...
Janice Day
Apr 28, 2012
Our darling mother, wife and friend, Janice Colene Gilge Day, has gone to Heaven to be with her other family, friends and dogs. Her suffering ended at her home with her family on April 28, 2012. She was loved by many and will be missed so very much. Janice was born on April 24, 1942 in Warner, North Dakota to...
Terry Caldwell
Apr 21, 2012
Terry James Caldwell, age 66, died peacefully early Saturday morning, April 21, 2012 at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal, Utah, surrounded by his wife and children following a decades-long battle with Parkinsons disease. He was born Saturday, June 23, 1945 in Vernal, Utah, the youngest child of Orson Caldwell and Annie Birch. He married Kathleen Kay Allen on June...
Tiffany Hill
Apr 20, 2012
Tiffany Danielle Hill went to be with Jesus on April 20, 2012 after a lengthy battle with epilepsy. She was born to the late William E. and Patricia L. Hill in Montclair, California on August 10, 1984, just 32 hours after her nephew, DaWayne. Tiffany was an active member of the Assembly of God Church and taught in the 3...