Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Families in St. George, Hurricane, and surrounding Southern Utah communities

Clye Lance Rowley

Clye Lance Rowley

May 31, 2016

Hurricane, Utah - Clye L. Rowley, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather passed away Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Clye was born December 1, 1923 in Green River, Utah to Lorenzo Leroy Rowley and Ada Mae Lance Rowley. Clye's mother died when he was two years old. While he was growing up, he had several stepmothers and his family...

Guy Hodges Ritchey

Guy Hodges Ritchey

May 28, 2016

Guy H. Ritchey, 82, passed away on May 28, 2016. He was born December 19, 1933 in Rogers, Arkansas.  Guy was a veteran of the Korean War.  He retired from the National Park Service. He is survived by his wife, Mary; his daughter, Susan (Robert) Gray; grandchildren: Marie, Chrystal and...

Maureen Callister Green

Maureen Callister Green

May 28, 2016

Page, Arizona – Maureen Callister Green, 94, passed away May 28, 2016 in Page, Arizona. She was born April 16, 1922 in Grantsville, Utah to Willard "Bill" and Hazel Callister, the eldest of seven children. She married Vern A. Green on March 15, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Maureen was raised in Grantsville and spent a...

Graham "Dunc" Duncan Macdonald

Graham "Dunc" Duncan Macdonald

May 27, 2016

Graham Duncan "Dunc" MacDonald IV, 75, passed away on May 27, 2016. He was born June 30, 1940 in Cedar City, Utah to Graham Duncan MacDonald III and Mary Macfarlane MacDonald. He was the fourth first born and a son for four generations, which there is a fifth and sixth...

Richard Leo "Dick" Brown

Richard Leo "Dick" Brown

May 27, 2016

St. George, Utah - Richard Leo "Dick" Brown passed away May 27, 2016. He was born February 24, 1937 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Walter Leo and Gwen Bridge Brown. After graduating from South High School, Dick joined the U.S. Air Force where he was stationed in Chicksands,...

Alina Putnam Smith

Alina Putnam Smith

May 27, 2016

St. George, Utah - Alina Putnam Smith, wife, mother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend who was beloved by all, died of natural causes May 27, 2016 in St. George, UT. Alina was born in Salt Lake City, UT June 8, 1932 to Edger Richard Putnam and Hazel Fitt Putnam. She married Hyrum Manfred Smith on April 3, 1953 in...

Ronald Hofmann

Ronald Hofmann

May 26, 2016

Ronald Hofmann, passed away Thursday, May 26, 2016 at the age of 72. He was born December 30, 1943 in Huntington, Indiana, to Robert and Mildred Hofmann.

Ron graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Civil...

John Henry Von Ohlen

John Henry Von Ohlen

May 26, 2016

John Henry Von Ohlen passed away May 26, 2016, at his home in St. George Utah.

John is survived by his wife Mari Ann and his children Kathy Gonzales, Bill (Sonja) Von Ohlen and Patrice (Jerry) Fuchs as well as his...

Kenneth Wayne Mckee

Kenneth Wayne Mckee

May 22, 2016

St. George, Utah – Kenneth Wayne Mckee, age 91, passed away May 22, 2016.  He was born April 19, 1925 in Council Bluffs, Iowa to George McKee, interred in Carson, Iowa and Lela Ripper Mckee, interred in Carson, Iowa. Kenneth married Bernetta Louise Mckee, interred at Lebanon Cemetery in Lebanon, Missouri. Kenneth served in the U.S. Navy from...

Mari Chavira

Mari Chavira

May 21, 2016

St. George, Utah – MarI Chavira passed away May 21, 2016. She was born July 4, 1963 in Chihuahua, Mexico to Norberto Chavira and Baudelia Vazques.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 11:00 a.m., with...

Mary Ann Bottino

Mary Ann Bottino

May 21, 2016

Ivins, Utah – Mary Ann Bottino, age 75, passed away Saturday May 21, 2016 in St. George, Utah.   She was born on January 29, 1941 in Rexburg, Idaho to Garner B. Pincock and May Fullmer. She was the oldest of 10 children. She married Paul J. Bottino on November...

June R. Nelson

June R. Nelson

May 20, 2016

Hurricane, Utah - June Rae Nelson, 89, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016 in Hurricane, Utah. She was born June 22, 1926 in Los Angeles, California to loving parents Frank Lyman Gillespie and Blanche Elnora Lemmon. June was the youngest of their eleven children. Her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when she was 16. She attended Las...

Colleen Barnum Lee

Colleen Barnum Lee

May 20, 2016

St. George, Utah – Colleen Barnum Lee passed away May 20, 2016 in St. George, Utah. She was born January 6, 1938 in St. George, Utah.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, James E. Barnum; son,...

William L. Marlow

William L. Marlow

May 18, 2016

St. George, Utah - William L. Marlow, 91, passed away May 18, 2016, at his home in SunRiver, St. George, Utah. He was born August 1, 1924 in Inman, SC to Otto and Gerry Aileen Horton Marlow. Mr. Marlow married Evanell Ator Davis of Abilene, TX in Modesto, CA...

Lawrence John Miner

Lawrence John Miner

May 15, 2016

Lawrence John Miner, age 97, passed away Sunday, May 15, 2016 in St. George, Utah. He was born October 12, 1918 in Nephi, Utah to Lawrence Adams and Sarah E. Miner.  He married Juliette Pace Miner on February 22, 1946 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were later sealed in the...

Charles Stanley Vick

Charles Stanley Vick

May 13, 2016

Hurricane, Utah - Charles Stanley Vick, "T.C." or "Uncle Chuck" to his nieces and nephews of Hurricane, Utah passed away on Friday May 13, 2016 at the age of 64 in a motorcycle accident involving a drunk driver. Charles was born to Arthur Stanley and Rita Helsdon Vick March 30, 1952 in Balham, London, England. In 1955 he...

Lois Vincent Knight

Lois Vincent Knight

May 13, 2016

St George, Utah – Lois Vincent Knight, age 83, passed away peacefully at her home on May 13, 2016, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born October 27, 1932 in Sandy, Utah to Ross Tyler and Naomi Vincent. She was married February 9, 1950 to her High School...

John Wendell Palmer

John Wendell Palmer

May 10, 2016

St. George, Utah - John Wendell Palmer, 84, left this life on May 10, 2016. He was born in Cannonville, Utah (put your hand on your heart) on October 20, 1931 to John William Palmer and Elinor Ross Palmer. He is survived by his wife Gladys Johnson Palmer; children:...

Ruby Ellen Mcintosh

Ruby Ellen Mcintosh

May 9, 2016

St. George, Utah – Ruby Ellen McIntosh, age 88, passed away May 9, 2016.  She was born September 11, 1927 in Ely, Nevada to Cecil Dewayne and Vaunda Larsen Rose. She married Arnold J. McIntosh in Ely, Nevada on May 18, 1946.

She...

Lois Caldwell Noel

Lois Caldwell Noel

May 9, 2016

St. George, Utah – Lois Caldwell Noel, 95, passed away peacefully with her family on May 9, 2016.  She was born on October 26, 1920 in Vernal, Utah to Violet Mercedes Peters and Thomas Ellsworth Caldwell.  She was married and sealed to Roane Chadwick Noel "Chad" in the Logan...