St. George, Utah – LaVern Sims Prosser Cahoon, 89, passed away November 17, 2023, at St. George Regional Hospital. She was born in Garden City, Utah on July 21, 1934, to Thomas Everett Sims and Beulah Tremelling.

LaVern married Franklin Brown Prosser on August 9, 1957, in Elko, Nevada. He was the father of Cynthia and Kenneth Franklin Prosser. He was killed in an auto accident on June 11, 1967, in Brevard County, Florida.

LaVern married Alton Walch Cahoon on February 16, 1975, in Elko, Nevada. He passed away on February 27, 2006, in St. George, Utah.

LaVern lived in Garden City, Logan, and Ogden, Utah; Anchorage, Alaska; Warner Robins, Georgia; Merrit Island, Titusville and Cocoa, Florida; and then back to Ogden, Utah. She had a cabin on beautiful Bear Lake and after marrying Alton, was a snowbird each year in St. George and Washington, Utah. She had many secretarial jobs at each of these locations. She was working for NASA at Kennedy Space Center as a Contract Assistant on the Saturn IV Rocket when she was in the terrible auto accident that killed her first husband, Frank. She received brain damage that caused a partial paralysis of her right side. She was 32 years old and spent the rest of her life with the problems the paralysis caused.

LaVern loved her children and stepchildren, the church, and genealogy but golfing was the source of her staying active and not giving in to the curses of paralysis.

LaVern is survived by her children: Kenneth Prosser and Cynthia Pelham; three stepchildren: Sandra Lee Sampson, Lana K. Adams, and Aton Brent Cahoon; many very special grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and sister, Nelda Evans. She is a beloved aunt to many nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, November 25, 2023, at 12:30 p.m. in the Garden City Cemetery, 449 West Logan Road, Garden City, Utah.

**In case of inclement weather, the service portion will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at 65 South Bear Lake Blvd., Garden City, Utah.

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