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Jimmy A. Nay
Jun 22, 2023
Jimmy A. Nay of Mesquite, Nevada, passed away June 22, 2023, at St. George Reginal Hospital. He was born December 2, 1943, in Willits, California, to Morris and Ruth (Sorensen) Nay. In 1994, he married the love of his life, JoAnn Syme in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jimmy was raised in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. He had many fond memories of working...
Pauline Rose Shults
Jun 20, 2023
Pauline Rose Shults, our wonderful and deeply loved mother, grandmother, and sister, returned to her Heavenly Father peacefully the night of June 22, 2023. Although we will miss her terribly, we know that she is having a joyful reunion with her loving husband, Duane, as well as her many family members who have gone on before.
Pauline was born on October...
Kaye Seegmiller Wade
Jun 20, 2023
Kaye Seegmiller Wade, 87, passed away June 20, 2023, in St. George, Utah. She was born March 28, 1936, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to West W. Seegmiller and Elsie Milda Hachmeister. She married James LaVar Wade on September 8, 1953, in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were later sealed in the St. George Temple.
Kaye spent her younger years in...
Lester John Hampton
Jun 17, 2023
Lester John Hampton, 88, passed away peacefully on June 17, 2023, at his home surrounded by family in Saint George, Utah.
Lester was born on June 25, 1934, in Mullen, Nebraska, to John and Marie Hampton.
Lester joined the Navy on September 21, 1954, and was honorably discharged on September 16, 1958, with the rank of Electrician’s Mate First Class...
Janene R Leitze
Jun 16, 2023
Janene R Leitze, age 51, passed away on Friday, June 16, 2023, at her home in St. George, Utah. She was born in 1972 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to John R Cooper and Verlene R Shurtz. She lived in Louisiana, Maine, and Connecticut, before the Cooper family permanently moved to Tempe, Arizona.
Janene loved to be as busy as...
Cherie Smith Malan
Jun 14, 2023
Cherie was born on October 8, 1949, in Malad, Idaho, and passed away at home with family by her side on June 14, 2023, in St George, Utah, at the age of 73.
Cherie was born to Karl and Retha Smith of Holbrook, Idaho, where she was raised on the family ranch along with her five siblings. She spent the...
Van Dell Wood
Jun 14, 2023
Van Dell Wood, age 76, passed away peacefully June 14th at his home in Hurricane, Utah, after a prolonged illness from multiple organ failure.
Van was born May 27, 1947, in Hurricane, Utah to Burdell and Nathella Bundy Wood. The family stayed in Hurricane until he was five years of age, at which time they moved to Boulder City, Nevada....
Angela Amy Jessop
Jun 14, 2023
Our beautiful daughter, Angela Amy Jessop, age 9, passed away on June 14, 2023, after a long and painful battle with a neurodegenerative disease called PKAN.
Angie and her twin sister Aubrey were born on July 8, 2013, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Noreen Zitting Jessop and Lester Ray Jessop. At five days old, Angie had open heart surgery,...
Howard Carlos Smith
Jun 12, 2023
Howard Carlos Smith, age 82, passed away at home unexpectedly on June 12, 2023, in Scenic, Arizona. He was born June 1, 1941, at home in Farmington, Utah, to Kenneth Carlos Smith and Verla Maude Stringham (Hellewell). His grandfather, Howard Hellewell, delivered him.
Howard grew up in West Bountiful Utah, and from an early age, he worked on his uncle...
Hamby Onaona Kahawaii-Lang
Jun 10, 2023
Hamby Onaona Kahawaii-Lang passed away on Saturday, June 10, 2023. She was born on March 31, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Shem & Hamby (Akina) Kahawaii. She was married to Smith Lang on September 5, 2015, in St. George, Utah.
Hamby was raised on the Big Island of Hawaii in the Beautiful town of Waimea. She went to Honoka’a High...
Archie C. "Bud" Bringhurst
Jun 7, 2023
Archie C. (Bud) Bringhurst, our beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend, returned home on June 7, 2023, and joined his loved ones who had gone before.
Dad was born on November 18, 1935, in Toquerville, Utah, to LaVerna Chatterley and Arch Bringhurst. He had a happy, busy childhood, learning to work on the family farm. They raised...
Marcel Henry Johnson
Jun 2, 2023
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“He is in the sun, the wind, the rain, he is in the air you breathe and with every breath you take.
He sings a song of hope and cheer, there’s no more pain, no more fear.
You’ll see him in the clouds above, hear him whisper words of love, you’ll be together before long, until then listen for...
Thomas Matthews Scholes
May 31, 2023
Thomas Matthews Scholes, 82, was born March 1, 1941, to Frances Newton Scholes and Wanda Loretta Matthew in Logan, Utah. He married the love of his life, Rosalie Marie Little on June 23, 1966, in the Salt Lake City Temple.
Tom lived in Logan, Utah, Ogden, Utah, and American Fork, Utah. He graduated high school at American Fork High. He...
Arlene May Benson
May 30, 2023
Arlene May Benson, age 91, passed away May 30, 2023. She was born on April 23, 1932, in Blanding, Utah, to Andre’ Hector DeLaney & Lila Rogers DeLaney. She married Martin Joseph Benson III on September 23, 1953, and were later sealed in the LDS St. George Temple on September 23, 1993.
Arlene grew up in the small town of...
Barbara Stock Stringham
May 28, 2023
Barbara Stringham, 88, of Beryl, Utah, passed away peacefully at home on May 28, 2023, surrounded by her loving family. Barbara was born on January 4, 1935, in Cane Beds, Arizona to Ellis Stock and Jenny Bushman. She married the love of her life, Lyle Stringham, on June 19, 1956.
Barbara had a love for all animals, and it was...
Lorna Marie Adamson Derbidge
May 27, 2023
Lorna Marie Adamson Derbidge was born to Nathan Welby Adamson, Sr., and Hannah Marie Sorensen on April 9, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She passed away on May 27, 2023, at her home in Ivins, Utah with loved ones by her side, one month prior to their 63rd wedding anniversary.
Lorna married the love of her life, Dick Derbidge...
Glen Leslie Curtis
May 22, 2023
Glen Leslie Curtis was born on August 6, 1932, in Riverside, California. He was extremely premature at less than 3 pounds and was no bigger than his father’s hand. In those days, a baby born that was premature rarely survived – but after a 6-month hospital stay, Glen survived, grew, and ultimately thrived. He lived to be 90 years old,...
Amy Michelle Tanner
May 19, 2023
Amy Michelle Tanner passed away peacefully in her home, surrounded by family and close friends Friday, May 19, 2023, after a fierce battle with cancer. She was born in Henderson, Nevada, to Mark Stevan Tanner and Catherine Richardson Riddle on September 25, of never, because gangsters live forever! She married Thomas David Alexander Bush Jr., and they had two beautiful...
Thomas Max Packer
May 19, 2023
Thomas Max Packer, age 74, passed away Friday, May 19th, 2023, due to heart complications. He was born March 3rd, 1949, in Ogden, Utah to William and Viola Packer. In 1956 his family moved to Kaysville, Utah and made it their permanent residence. Tom was an active kid, to say the least, and gave his amazing parents quite the time...
Larry Richard Shelley
May 18, 2023
Larry Richard Shelley was born on January 11, 1949, in St. George, Utah, to Walter and Rebecca Holmes Shelley. Larry was welcomed into a blended family to siblings he loved.
Larry attended Dixie High School where he met and married the love of his life, Penny Johnson. They were married on October 7, 1967, and were later sealed in the...
