Obituaries

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

Catherine S. Hubbard Old

Catherine S. Hubbard Old

Aug 15, 2014

Washington, UT " Catherine S. Hubbard Old, 89, went to be with Jesus on August 15, 2014 in St. George, Utah. She was born October 14, 1924 in Toledo, Ohio to Otto and Coletta Scharf. She is survived by daughters Susan (Clayton) Bender and Judith (David) Mayfield; five grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; sisters, Ruth (Allen) Fletcher and Carolyn...

Barbara J. Baker

Barbara J. Baker

Aug 14, 2014

St. George, Utah - Barbara Jean Baker, 80, passed away August 14, 2014. She was born October 27, 1933 in Hastings, Michigan to Russell Cleon and Dorothy Sage Hinckley.

A visitation will be held Friday, August 22, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Metcalf Mortuary, 288 West St. George Blvd., St. George, Utah. Arrangements...

Fae Donna Thornley Cooley

Fae Donna Thornley Cooley

Aug 14, 2014

St. George, Utah - Fae Donna Thornley Cooley journeyed home peacefully on August 14, 2014 surrounded by loved ones and with her beloved puppy, Daisy by her side.

Fae Donna was born August 27, 1924 in Layton, Utah. Her family relocated to Salt Lake City in 1932 where she graduated from East High School and...

Yvonne Sandberg

Yvonne Sandberg

Aug 10, 2014

St. George, Utah - Yvonne Sandberg, 85, passed away August 10, 2014. Born October 12, 1928 in Logan, Utah, Yvonne was the first of six children of William and Edna Parker. She is now reunited with her husband of 62 years, Arthur L. Sandberg.

Yvonne was a USU educator in every sense of the word....

John Macarthur Wright

John Macarthur Wright

Aug 8, 2014

John MacArthur Wright, age 84, passed away on August 8, 2014 at his home in Bloomington from affects incidental to Alzheimers disease. He was born July 11, 1930 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to John Wheeler Wright, Jr. and Lela Bell Staker; he was the first of two sons. He married Peggy Oldroyd on May 4, 1955 at the Salt Lake...

Boyd Reeves

Boyd Reeves

Aug 8, 2014

St. George, Utah " Boyd Lynn Reeves, age 85, passed away peacefully on August 8, 2014 at the Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George. He was born June 3, 1929 in Kanarraville, Utah to Lynn and Ella Batty Reeves. He attended schools in Kanarraville and Cedar City. He served in the New England LDS Mission, where he met his...

Parker Gordon Hanson

Parker Gordon Hanson

Aug 5, 2014

Henderson, Nevada " Parker Gordon Hanson passed away on August 5, 2014, in Henderson NV, at the age of 96. He was born in Fillmore, Utah on April 15, 1918, and was the oldest child of Hans Alma and Wealthy Parker Hanson.

Parker attended Provo High, Brigham Young University, and University of Utah majoring in...

Tonya Lyn Wittwer

Tonya Lyn Wittwer

Aug 4, 2014

Tonya Lyn Wittwer, 54, passed away peacefully with her family by her side due to complications from a brain tumor on August 4, 2014 in St. George, Utah. She was born on June 10, 1960 in Newport Beach, California to Herb and Linda Norcross. Tonya spent the first part of her life in Southern California. As a young girl she...

Julia Cheryl Rhodes Merino

Julia Cheryl Rhodes Merino

Aug 3, 2014

St. George, Utah " Julie Merino returned to some of her beloved family on Sunday morning, August 3, 2014. She passed away in St. George, UT. Julie was born August 18, 1944, in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, to Robert Howard Rhodes and Jean Marion Kinney, the second of six children. Julie's early childhood was spent in Washington,...

Joel Randall Anderson

Joel Randall Anderson

Aug 2, 2014

Joel Randall Anderson, age 64, left this life on Saturday, August 2, 2014. He was born on December 30, 1949 in Richfield Utah to Oliver Martel Anderson and Vera Knudsen. He married Debra Ricks Anderson on September 19, 1975 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Randy grew up in Junction, Utah, farming and ranching alongside his father, mother, and eight...

Dena Louine Reynolds Sylvester

Dena Louine Reynolds Sylvester

Jul 31, 2014

St. George, Utah " Dena Louine Reynolds Sylvester, age 83, passed away July 31 st , 2014 at her home. She was born April 25, 1931 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Francis M. and Ruth Johnson Reynolds.

She is survived by her daughters, Cynthia (William) Schlant of Vacaville, CA, Roxanne Coyle of St. George, UT,...

Glen W. Beecher

Glen W. Beecher

Jul 30, 2014

Glen W. Beecher, age 59, passed away July 30, 2014. He was born March 25, 1955 to Helen Louise and Duane Beecher in Santa Monica, CA. He grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from University High School. He served an LDS mission in Anchorage, Alaska. He also attended Ricks college. He was very artistic and enjoyed drawing. He is...

Renate Luise Klein

Renate Luise Klein

Jul 28, 2014

St. George, Utah " Renate Luise Klein passed away July 28, 2014 at Dixie Regional medical Center. She was born March 8, 1930 to Emil Robert Klein and Auguste Ernstine Schoenfeld Klein in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Germany. She immigrated from Germany to the U.S.A in 1957. She resided in New York City, Salt Lake City and St. George,...

Sterling Davis

Sterling Davis

Jul 25, 2014

Sterling Davis, age 94, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 25, 2014 surrounded by his family. He was welcomed home by his wife of 53 years, Joyce Webster Davis, who had been waiting for him since her passing in 2001. He joined her on what would have been her 90th birthday. Sterling was born in Benjamin, Utah on October 16,...

Marlen Dean Mcghie

Marlen Dean Mcghie

Jul 23, 2014

Marlen Dean McGhie, 87, passed away on July 23, 2014 at his home in St. George, Utah. He was born on January 20, 1927 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the eighth child out of ten children to Sigrid Rosalina Johnson and John LeRoy McGhie. Before college he served in the Military Army Officers Training Program at the University of Utah...

Ruth Lydia Walton Cooper

Ruth Lydia Walton Cooper

Jul 23, 2014

Ruth Lydia Walton Cooper, 88, passed away July 23, 2014, at her residence. Ruth was born December 6, 1925, at the Ogden Hospital to Lydia Emma Higley Walton and Orson Francis Walton. She married Grant H. Cooper July 20, 1946. Ruth grew up on the family orchards in Layton, Utah with her eight siblings. She attended Weber College on an...

Verle Leavitt

Verle Leavitt

Jul 21, 2014

Gunlock, Utah " Verle Leavitt, 88, passed away July 21, 2014 at the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins, Utah. He was born May 21, 1926, in St. George, Utah to Samuel Vernon Leavitt and Dartha Luella Barney Leavitt. He married Laura May Madsen Leavitt on October 14, 1949. After over 47 years of marriage, Laura unexpectedly passed...

Helen Bowler Gardner

Helen Bowler Gardner

Jul 20, 2014

Helen Bowler Gardner, a longtime resident of Gunlock, Utah passed away at her home on July 20, 2014. She was the first born of Milton Albert Bowler and Blanche Holt Bowler on May 20, 1923. She was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers: Dean, Elwood, and Quenton Bowler; her sister, Alice Dawn Bowler; husband, Jay Gardner; an infant...

Joshua L. Maynard

Joshua L. Maynard

Jul 19, 2014

Beloved husband, father, son and brother, Joshua L. Maynard passed away from this life to the next on July 19, 2014 after a long and valiant battle with cancer. He was born in Salt Lake City, UT on February 22, 1979 to Larry K. Maynard and Julia Beams. He moved to Hurricane, UT and attended Hurricane High School. He was...

Patrick Kim Cuskelly

Patrick Kim Cuskelly

Jul 17, 2014

Patrick Kim Cuskelly, 61, passed away July 17, 2014. He was born September 2, 1952 in Rigby, Idaho. Family memorial services will be held at a later date. Arrangements entrusted to the care of Metcalf Mortuary, 435-673-4221.