Obituaries
Lyle McKeachnie
Mar 2, 2013
Maurice Lyle McKeachnie, age 84, passed away on March 2, 2013 in St. George, Utah. He was born on February 17, 1929 in Vernal, Utah to Edna Smith Hardy and Thomas Murray McKeachnie and lived most of his life in the Glines area of Vernal. He was the sixth of seven children. After graduating from Uintah High School, he attended...
Leon Richens
Feb 24, 2013
Charles Leon Richens, passed away peacefully at his home in Vernal, Utah, surrounded by his family and friends after battling a longtime illness. He left this world to go on to the next on Sunday, February 24, 2013. He was born in Vernal on May 25, 1949 to Melvin and Jean Cook Richens. Leon loved socializing with all he knew...
Vera Gurr
Feb 21, 2013
Vera Gurr, age 87 of Vernal, Utah passed away February 21, 2013 at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born September 5, 1925 in Vernal, the ninth of ten children born to George Albert and Alice Victoria White Gurr. Vera graduated from Uintah High School in 1944. She worked at the Basin Laundry and...
Alice Jenkins
Feb 21, 2013
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 am at the Vernal 8th Ward LDS chapel ( 1510 West Highway 40) with viewings Tuesday evening from 6-8 at mortuary and 1 hour prior to services at the church. Burial will be in the Vernal Memorial Park.
Denny Gardiner
Feb 17, 2013
Denny R. Gardiner, age 79 of Vernal, passed away on February 17, 2013 at the Ashley Regional Medical Center after a courageous battle with cancer. Denny was born in Vernal, Utah in a small home at 1500 West and 1500 South on December 3, 1933 to Raymond and Norma Ellen Abplanalp Gardiner. Starting at a young age, Denny helped his...
Phyllis Smith
Feb 1, 2013
Phyllis Rogene Morrison Smith was born July 12, 1923 in Tingley, Iowa. Her parents were Clarence and Hazel Morrison. She grew up on a farm in Iowa, graduated from Tingley High School in 1940 and attended Creston Community Junior College. She served in the Waves from 1944 to 1946 and worked in the Military Records Department in Washington D. C....
Larvin Atwood
Jan 31, 2013
Larvin Andrew Atwood passed peacefully into the arms of our Lord early in the morning of January 31, 2013. He went peacefully and under his terms. He was nearly 89 years of age. Welcoming him on the other side was his parents, Andy and Bessie Slaugh Atwood, brother, Alburn, sisters, Vivian and Wanda, his wife, Sarah Ellen Marshall Williams, and...
Jerry Holland
Jan 31, 2013
Jerry was the first of 5 children born to Buford & Effie Holland in Sanford Colorado. He grew up in Salt Lake & graduated from West High in 1958 enlisting in the US Navy shortly after. Dad was a firefighter, first with Hercules, then with South Salt Lake & retiring from the Unified Fire Department in 2000 after 32 years...
Ruby Anderson
Jan 30, 2013
Ruby Ruth Anderson, age 86 of Vernal, Utah passed away at the Uintah Care Center on January 29, 2013. She was born November 20, 1926 in Vernal to Henry and Nellie Powell Kloeppel. Ruby Married James (Jim) Anderson in 1951 in Tijuana, Mexico. Together they owned and operated Jims Cafe in Vernal for many years. Jim passed away in 1989....
Marilyn Merrell
Jan 19, 2013
Marilyn Joan Wills Merrell died on January 19, 2013 at her home in Naples (Vernal), Utah. She was the first born to Alma Leonard and Carrie Pederson Wills on October 13, 1928 in Ogden, Utah. Marilyn grew up on the family homestead in the community of Hancock Cove, a few miles west of Roosevelt, Utah. She truly enjoyed the outdoors...
Helen Chivers
Jan 15, 2013
Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, Vera Helen Chivers returned to her Heavenly Father on January 15, 2013, surrounded by her loving family. She was born January 4, 1938 in Lapoint, Utah to Raymond Miles Bigelow and Vera Christena Lee. On October 14, 1968 she married Darris Chivers in the Salt Lake City Temple. Together they had three...
John W. Powell
Jan 14, 2013
John (Jack) William Powell (93) was called home to his Heavenly Father, January 14, 2013. He had heart problems and had been residing at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal because of symptoms from a hip fracture. Jack was born March 29, 1919 in Vernal, Utah to Ruth Olive Gray and John Powell. He grew up on his fathers cattle...
David Broome
Jan 9, 2013
God called Dave home on January 9, 2013 David Ray Broome was born on December 20, 1950 to Loyal H. (Tunney) and Claris (Young) Broome. Raised in Willow Creek, he moved to Vernal and attended Uintah High School. While at Uintah High School Dave became the wrestling state champ. This earned him two scholarships to Weber State University. Dave had...
Linda Barber
Jan 5, 2013
Our loving Mother and Nana, Linda K Barber Passed away peacefully in her home on January 5, 2013 after a courageous Battle with Breast Cancer. Linda was born in Emporia, Kansas on March 26, 1949 to Francis Roland and Betty Chapman Brown. She graduated from Highland High School in 1967 in Topeka. Linda then completed and graduated from Beauty School...
Jared Ainge
Jan 4, 2013
Jared Nile Ainge, age 29 of Jensen, Utah returned home to his Heavenly Father on January 4, 2013. He was born on July 16, 1983 in Roosevelt, Utah to Shirley Duane Ainge and Lana Dee Williamson. Jared loved the outdoors, camping and fishing. But mostly he loved watching and filming the deer, elk, moose, and whatever he could get on...
H. D. Behrman
Dec 26, 2012
H. D. (Buff) Behrman, loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, hero and friend, left this world on December 26, 2012 at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born on July 16, 1933 in Vernal, Utah to Horace S. Behrman and Vergie Pearl Wooley. He married Eva Joy Farnsworth on January 28, 1952 in the Salt Lake City...
Evelyn Slaugh
Dec 23, 2012
Anne Evelyn Petersen Slaugh, age 92 of Vernal, Utah passed away at the Uintah Care Center on December 23, 2012. She was born in Mount Pleasant, Utah on January 19, 1920 to Louis A. and Emily Anderson Petersen. She attended school at Logan High School and graduated from North Sanpete High School in 1937. She married Shirley Franklin Slaugh on...
Alyce Aycock
Dec 21, 2012
Alyce Stephenson Aycock, age 95 passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 21, 2012 in Vernal, Utah. She was born to Joseph Albert Stephenson and Charolette Ruby Johnson on November 22, 1917 in Duchesne, Utah. She later lived in Roosevelt, Utah and then in Vernal for the last 50 years of her life. She married Kenneth Robert Aycock on...
Leland Hunnicutt
Dec 19, 2012
L. W. "Red" Hunnicutt was born October 28, 1922 in Manassa, Colorado. He passed away peacefully on December 19, 2012, after several days with his children bedside. Red joined Chevron Oil in 1947. In 1952 he married Mary Greenup Fritz and they moved to Rangely, divorcing in 1966. After his retirement from Chevron in 1988, he continued his involvement with...
Cleo Lee Fox
Dec 17, 2012
Cleo Lee Fox, age 91, passed away quietly at his daughters home in Vernal, Utah surrounded by his loving family. He was born on July 9, 1921 in Idaho to James and Annie Hall Fox. He attended school in Salt Lake City at Horseman Jr. High School before serving with the Reserve corps for one year. He married Marie Dewar...
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