Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Families in St. George, Hurricane, and surrounding Southern Utah communities
Alvin Docton
Sep 18, 2015
Alvin Docton passed away peacefully September 18, 2015. He was born January 5, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio the son of Sam and Jennie Greenfield Docton. He volunteered to serve his country proudly during World War II in the 65th Infantry Division (Patten's 3rd Army) during the "Battle of the Bulge". His brother, Maury, was killed in Africa and his other...
Eva Tanner
Sep 18, 2015
Eva Darlene Tanner returned to her father in heaven September 18, 2015. Eva was born to Alta Pearl and James Everett in Guthrie Oklahoma on February 27, 1931 and married the love of her life Ace Tanner on June 2, 1948. They were later sealed for time and all eternity in the Los Angeles temple on September 10, 1977. Together...
Elizabeth Anne Bruhn Catalan
Sep 14, 2015
Elizabeth Anne Bruhn Catalan passed away September 14, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born December 23, 1940 in Panguitch, Utah to Arthur F. and Lorna Chamberlain Bruhn. Raised in St. George, Utah, Elizabeth graduated from Dixie High School and Dixie College, earning degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. She spent her life as...
Patti Maria Leavitt
Sep 14, 2015
Las Vegas, NV - Patti Maria Leavitt, 89, passed away Monday, September 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. Patti was born June 28, 1926, to William Chester Hauver and Emma Pogge, in Huber, Oregon. In death, Patti was preceded by all her siblings; her husband, Darryl Noble Leavitt; and her second son, Barry Dennis. She is survived by her three sons:...
Lola Maria Flora
Sep 12, 2015
St. George, Utah- Lola Maria Flora, 43, passed away on September 12, 2015 surrounded by her loving children. Lola was born September 11, 1972 in Ogden, Utah to Fortino Rodriguez and Juanita "Polly" Rodriguez. She married Joseph "Joe" James Flora on October 8, 1993 in Salt Lake City, Utah, who preceded her in death, on August 22, 2014. Together they...
Vera Pearce
Sep 11, 2015
Vera Pearce was born on September 29, 1929 to Loyal and Agnes Jones. Vera passed peacefully of natural causes surrounded by her family on September 11, 2015 and is now with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Vera was born in Danville, IL., then moved to San Diego, CA. in 1959, where she raised 4 children. She worked at Mercy...
Miriam Christensen Schmutz
Sep 9, 2015
St. George, Utah - Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Miriam Christensen Schmutz passed away of cause's incident to age on September 9, 2015. Miriam was born in Delta, Utah, on December 20, 1925 to Lorenzo Henry and Leah Bennett Christensen, the 9th of 11 children. She graduated from Delta High School in 1944 and went to St George...
Ennia Lee Kraft
Sep 8, 2015
Hurricane, Utah - Ennia Lee Kraft passed away September 8, 2015. She was born March 26, 1916. Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., with a visitation at 1:00 p.m., at the Metcalf Hurricane Valley Mortuary Chapel, 140 North Main street, Hurricane, Utah. Graveside services will be held Monday, September 14, 2015 at 10:00 a.m....
Keith Leland Hammer
Sep 7, 2015
Keith Leland Hammer, 86, passed away September 7, 2015, at his home in Hurricane. He was born the 9th of 10 children on February 22, 1929. His parents were William Jasper and Dora Mae (Denning) Hammer. Growing up, his whole family worked hard on an 80 acre farm in Osgood, just west of Idaho Falls. They enjoyed swimming in the...
Gary Hyrum Hazelgren
Sep 7, 2015
Gary Hyrum Hazelgren passed away peacefully on September 7, 2015 in St. George, Utah at the age of 82, after a valiant two-and-a-half decade battle with leukemia. Gary was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 27, 1933 to Hyrum and Helen Johnson Hazelgren. He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah; Los Angeles, California; and Haines, Oregon. He...
Etta Cheeney
Sep 2, 2015
St. George, UT - Etta Cheeney passed away September 2, 2015. She was born July 24, 1929 in Mesquite, NV to Mildred Hughes and Heber Chase Leavitt. She married Bertram Cheeney, Jr. on September 25, 1947 in Las Vegas, NV. They were later solemnized in the St. George LDS Temple. Etta was an active member of The Church Of Jesus...
Doris Miller Snow
Sep 1, 2015
Doris Miller Snow, 91, was born in St. Anthony, ID on April 24, 1924, to John F. and Mabelle Grover Miller, the last of five children. She entered eternal rest, with her three children by her bedside, at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC on September 1, 2015. Doris was reared in Idaho and Basin, Wyoming during the depression years while...
Charles Carter
Aug 28, 2015
Ivins, Utah - Charles Carter passed away peacefully at home on August 28, 2015. He was born in 1933 in Lexington, Kentucky to Beaulah and Daniel Carter. Chuck spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force where he traveled the world and loved to fly. He later worked for the Post Office for 18 years. He retired in 1990. Chuck...
Norman Carl Ahern Jr.
Aug 26, 2015
Norman Carl Ahern Jr., passed away quietly in his sleep on August 26, 2015. He was born in Salt Lake City, UT on March 3, 1925. He was raised as the second of 4 children born to Norman Carl Ahern Sr. and Alice Lyle Thompson. Norman (Jr) left home at age 18 to join the Marine Corps and serve in...
Verle Lavern Barrow
Aug 24, 2015
Washington, Utah- Verle LaVern Barrow, 79, passed away at Dixie Regional Medical Center on August 24, 2015. He was born in Ogden, Utah on April 13, 1936, the son of LaVern W. and Ruth B. Barrow. He married Margaret A. Empey on August 14, 1965. They were sealed in the Ogden LDS Temple on October 1, 1974. Verle was raised...
Brook Douglas Johnson
Aug 24, 2015
Hurricane, Utah - Brook Douglas Johnson passed in the loving arms of his wife and mother at 1:51 a.m. on August 24, 2015. He was born in the old Lehi Hospital on April 22, 1963 to Stephen M. "Pete" Johnson and Karen DeSpain Timothy. Brook was raised in Lehi, American Fork and Pleasant Grove, Utah. He was a man of...
Janeen Harris
Aug 24, 2015
- Ruth Janeen Wasden Harris, 86, peacefully passed away from complications of kidney disease on August 24, 2015. She was born October 27, 1928 in Logan, Utah to Leonard Orville Wasden and Annie Pearl Berrett, where she spent a happy childhood filled with love, laughter and music. Her family moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho when she was a teenager and...
Mickey Jeanette Isenhour
Aug 23, 2015
Mickey Jeanette Isenhour, age 81, passed away from this earth on August 23, 2015. She was born on July 14, 1934 in Statesville, NC to Charles E. Isenhour, and Ida Rogenia Stowe. She was the first born of seven children. She had whooping cough and scarlet fever at age 3 that left her as a "special needs" child. Even though...
Helen Elizabeth Cardno Boberg
Aug 18, 2015
St. George, Utah - Helen Elizabeth Cardno Boberg, 89, passed away at Beehive Homes on August 18, 2015. She was born at home in Alonsa, Manitoba, Canada on November 25, 1925 to Cathelene Seale and Alexander Cardno. She was the oldest of four daughters. Helen attended grade school in Alonsa, and then received her nursing degree from the University of...
Velma Hodgson Criddle
Aug 17, 2015
St. George, Utah - Velma Hodgson Criddle, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend, passed away August 17, 2015. She was born in Syracuse, Utah on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1934. She was the youngest of five children born to Lawrence and Vera Briggs Hodgson. Velma married her high school sweetheart, Howard Criddle, on September 20, 1951 in the Salt Lake...


