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Barry Peter "Bear" Peterson

Barry Peter "Bear" Peterson

May 29, 2011

Barry Peter "Bear" Peterson, 62, of St. George, died Sunday May 29, 2011 at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, after complications from battling cancer.

Barry was born February 17, 1949 to Pericson and Tola Peterson of Redmond/St. George. He was a "big guy" with a big heart!

Barry had a great sense of...

Eugene Franklin Smith, Jr.

Eugene Franklin Smith, Jr.

May 29, 2011

Eugene Franklin Smith, Jr., 71, passed away May 29, 2011 in Panguitch, Utah. He was born February 29, 1940 in Roswell, New Mexico to Eugene Franklin and Nellie Pauline Brumley Smith. He married Helen Lynne Kessler, April 22, 1967 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Gene was a loving, wonderful and caring husband, father and grandfather. His biggest joy...

Leonora Pearl Dahlman

Leonora Pearl Dahlman

May 26, 2011

Leonora Pearl Schumann Dahlman, 95, passed away May 26, 2011, in Richfield. She was born October 31, 1915, in Grand Island, Nebraska, to Reinholdt William and Opal Grace Leota Schumann. She married Arnold Dahlman on July 31, 1948, in Carson City, Nevada. They had 62 years of love and laughter together. He preceded her in death on November 25,...

Shellie Griffin

Shellie Griffin

May 26, 2011

Our beloved mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and friend, Shellie Griffin, 47, passed away in her home May 26, 2011 in Escalante. She was born July 28, 1963 in Panguitch to Cecil F. and Carrie Bailey Griffin. She married Glenn Wilson July 17, 1981, they later divorced.

Shellie loved to restore old furniture and working with her hands....

Duane Foster Nay

Duane Foster Nay

May 26, 2011

Our loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, Duane Foster Nay, 88, passed away May 26, 2011in Richfield. Duane was born April 1, 1923 in San Pedro, California, to Fay Dermont and Ella Peterson Nay. He was the oldest of three boys. When he was five years old his family moved to Utah.

Duane and his brothers...

Vernon Smith Henningson

Vernon Smith Henningson

May 25, 2011

Vernon Smith Henningson

Vernon Smith Henningson, 84, of Manti passed away May 25, 2011 in Centerfield. Vernon was born in Manti on June 29, 1926 the last of five children to Henry and Nellie Smith Henningson. He was raised in Manti, attending school and working with his father and brothers in the saw mill...

Amberly Dawn Rhodes

Amberly Dawn Rhodes

May 24, 2011

Amberly Dawn Carroll Rhodes finished her earthly life too soon on May 24, surrounded by her family at her home in Ephraim, after a valiant fight with cancer. Born May 14, 1975 in SLC to David Keith and Barbara Sullivan Carroll.

She attended Alta HS, Snow College, and received a BSA from USU. She married Jason Andrew...

Galen B. Christiansen

Galen B. Christiansen

May 21, 2011

Galen B. Christiansen, 76, passed away May 21, 2011, in Provo, Utah. He was born May 15, 1935 in Manti, Utah to M. E. Bernhardt and Bertha Sudweeks Christiansen. He married Betty Christensen on July 31, 1953, and had two sons Jerry and Shane. They later divorced. He married Ruth Jeffs Magnuson Dennis on August 27, 1962 and became...

Terry Don Bartholomew

Terry Don Bartholomew

May 20, 2011

Terry Don Bartholomew, 58, passed away on May 20, 2011 in Manti, Utah. Terry was born on October 26, 1952 to Donald Glen and Shirley Colleen Mickelsen Bartholomew.

Terry was know for driving the infamous "Unit", a four-wheel drive Chevy truck. While driving the "Unit" Terry could be spotted from miles away and was widely known around...

Jeannene Reese

Jeannene Reese

May 17, 2011

Jeannene Reese, 62, of Richfield, passed away May 17, 2011, in Las Vegas, NV. She was born August 17, 1948, in Richfield, Utah, to Kyhl C and Corene Christensen Anderson. She married James Boyd Reese, November 22, 1969, in Las Vegas, NV. They later divorced.

Jeannene’s love of her life were her children and grandchildren. She enjoyed...

Major Robert J. Huntsman

Major Robert J. Huntsman

May 15, 2011

Major Robert J. Huntsman, ret., 74, returned to his Heavenly Father after a long, lingering illness on May 15, 2011. He was born October 26, 1936 in Richfield to Rex L. and Vonda Christiansen Huntsman. He married Mary Jeannette Nielson, December 21, 1960 in Salt Lake City. The marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple.

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Jean Wilson Banks

Jean Wilson Banks

May 14, 2011

Jean Wilson Banks, 93, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2011 in Richfield. He was born September 20, 1917 in Yankton, South Dakota to Will Carlton and Rachel Everett Banks. At the age of six years his mother passed away, at which time he went to live with his paternal grandparents in Lynd, Minnesota. He graduated from Lynd High School....

Warren Frank Oldroyd

Warren Frank Oldroyd

May 14, 2011

Warren Frank Oldroyd, 82, passed away on Tuesday, May 14, 2011 at home in Glenwood, Utah.

Frank was born on November 10, 1928 to Arnold and Mary Marray Sorensen Oldroyd. Frank served an LDS mission in 1949 in the Southern States. He married his sweetheart, Julia Jensen, on the 6th of June 1952 in the Manti Temple....

Gwendolyn Chapman

Gwendolyn Chapman

May 14, 2011

Gwendolyn Jackman Thompson Chapman, 88, passed away May 14, 2011. She was born May 8, 1923 in Levan to Leland Stanford and Thelma Robinson Jackman. She married Guy "Tommy" Thompson, January 12, 1943. He went missing in action in WWII on May 9, 1943. She married Maurice Bean Chapman, January 18, 1949 in the Manti Temple.

Grandma...

Eunice May Hardy

Eunice May Hardy

May 12, 2011

Our loving mother, grandmother, sister and friend Eunice May Willis Widerburg Hardy passed away on Thursday morning, May 12, 2011 in Monroe, May was born Feb. 03, 1923 in Tabiona, to Earl and Leah Willis.

She spent her early years in Tabiona where her father was a forest ranger. Some of May’s fondest memories were the years...

Arda Turner

Arda Turner

May 12, 2011

Our beloved mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend returned home peacefully to her Heavenly Father on May 12, 2011, in Monroe. She was born March 6, 1920, in Monroe, Utah, to Harold Peter and Ruby Huetta Winget Oldroyd. She married Sherman White Turner on August 22, 1946, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He preceded her in death on...

Leah Bell Fillmore

Leah Bell Fillmore

May 11, 2011

Our cherished mother, grandmother, sister and friend, Leah Bell Oldroyd Fillmore, 91, passed into the loving arms of her husband, daughter and parents on May 11, 2011. Leah was born March 17, 1920 to LaMar and Madia Iris Bell Oldroyd in Venice. She weighed only 2½ pounds at birth and spent the first six weeks of life in...

Jerry Duane Nelson

Jerry Duane Nelson

May 11, 2011

On December 8, 1970 Jerry Duane Nelson was welcomed into this world by his brother Troy, sister Angela, mother Charlotte and his father Charles. In this past week our family has been drawn together in a new way. On May 11, 2011 Duane reunited with his grandparents Dode & Olive Dennis, along with Ed & Margaret Nelson who preceded...

Eric Owen Howard

Eric Owen Howard

May 8, 2011

Eric Owen Howard, 35, passed away May 8, 2011 in White Salmon, Washington after a valiant fight with cancer. He was born October 24, 1975 in Murray, Utah to Dan L. Howard and Sandra Lynn Bridges Callery.

Semper Fi

Eric proudly served two years in the Marine Corps and was released on a medical discharge....

Glen Orvil Anderson

Glen Orvil Anderson

May 4, 2011

Glen Orvil Anderson, 62, went to be with his Heavenly Father on May 4, 2011. Glen was born May 27, 1948 in Gunnison, to Elmo and Rose Barney Anderson.

Glen attended school in Gunnison and was raised in Mayfield. He was drafted into the Army in 1966 and was a Vietnam Vet. Glen retired from the Utah...

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