Shirley Deloy Blatter Seegmiller

Shirley Deloy Blatter Seegmiller, a resident of St. George, Utah since 1947 and at the age of 92, passed away on Saturday, January 31, 2026. She was born in a stone farmhouse, two miles out of Chinook, Montana, to Gottlieb Blatter and Dora May Hiatt Blatter. She married Elbert Kay Seegmiller on April 12, 1952, in the St. George, Utah Temple. Their only child, Marie, was born June 11, 1953.

Shirley was raised by her father and her brothers and sisters after the passing of her mother, when Shirley was 10 months old. Her dad married Lorene Arabella Maddox when Shirley was two and a half years old.

Shirley was educated in one room schoolhouses in Chinook, Montana; Cardston, Alberta, Canada; and Havre, Montana. Her family moved to St. George, Utah, when she was 14 years old, and it was very different from going to Woodward Junior High with its seven classes a day.

Shirley began working in the public at a young age. She worked at Church's, on Main Street, through her teens and into her newlywed life. She also worked for the Picketts at their Polar Bear eatery on the east end of the Boulevard, for Althea Nelson at Snow's Dress Shop on Main Street, and for J. C. Penney's on the Boulevard before it moved to Red Cliffs Mall. She retired in 1996.

As a teen, Shirley traveled with her family along history sites to the east coast and back, went to Disneyland, when it was only four years old, with her husband, daughter and extended family, tried to attend all the family reunions that she could, and took a BYU sponsored tour to Missouri and Illinois Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints historical sites after she retired.

Shirley enjoyed family, friends, Church activities, and eating out with loved ones. She served a two and a half year Member Locator Mission, cited in the basement of the St. George Tabernacle on Main Street. She also served as an Ordinance Worker in the St. George Temple for two years. She was a Primary, Sunday School and Young Women's MIA teacher in the St. George Fifth and Sixth Wards. She and her family express appreciation for all your help, love, and concern.

Shirley is survived by her daughter, Marie Seegmiller Simmons, and son-in-law, Carl Devon Simmons, of Thatcher, Arizona; grandson and granddaughter-in-law, Scott and Melissa Simmons of Mesa, Arizona, their children, Daniel, James, Benjamin, Rachel, and Ethan; granddaughter, Shawna Simmons of Mesa, Arizona, and her children, McKyla, Kamron, and McKenna; brother, Mahlon Blatter of Manti, Utah; sister, Clothele Foote of Middleton, Idaho; and brother-in-law, Richard Seegmiller of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Shirley is preceded in death by her parents and sixteen of her siblings; her husband, his parents, and seven of his siblings.

Funeral services will be Friday, February 6, 2026, at 11:00 AM at the Stake Center at 449 South 300 East, across the street from the Temple. Friends may call Friday, February 6, 9:30-10:30 AM at the same location. Interment will take place in the St. George City Cemetery.

Arrangements are made under the direction of Spilsbury Mortuary, 110 South Bluff Street, St. George, Utah. 435-673-2454.

Friends and family are invited to share memories and sign Shirley's online guestbook below.