Obituaries

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

Estella Leavitt Bracken

Estella Leavitt Bracken

Feb 23, 2014

St. George, UT -Estella Leavitt Bracken returned home to her Heavenly Father on February 23, 2014. Stella was born November 20, 1927 in St. George, Utah to Samuel Vernon and Dartha Luella Barney Leavitt. She was raised in Gunlock, Utah. She married Linford M. Bracken on December 26, 1946 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The marriage was later solemnized in the...

Laraine Peterson Orchard

Laraine Peterson Orchard

Feb 18, 2014

St. George, Utah - LaRaine Orchard, age 83, passed away Tuesday, February 18, 2014. She was born February 3, 1931 in Neola, UT to Albin Rue Peterson and Annie Malnar-Peterson. She married and was sealed for all eternity to the love of her life William Gary Orchard in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on May 6, 1949. They were...

Kenneth Robertson Metcalf

Kenneth Robertson Metcalf

Feb 15, 2014

St. George, Utah - Kenneth Robertson Metcalf, 86, passed away peacefully on February 15, 2014, surrounded by his family. He was born on October 1, 1927 in Springville, Utah to Maurice and Zina Robertson Metcalf; he was the third of eight children. He married Beverly Robbins Metcalf on June 11, 1947 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple.

Ken...

John Bevalere Cox

John Bevalere Cox

Feb 14, 2014

St. George, UT - John B. Cox, beloved husband and father, passed away on February 14, 2014 at his home in St. George, Utah after a long illness. He was born on December 7, 1926 in St. George, Utah to Wilford Charles Cox and Elizabeth Leany Cox. He was the youngest of five children. On August 26,...

Donald Duane Dean

Donald Duane Dean

Feb 13, 2014

Donald Duane Dean, 83, died February 13, 2014, in St. George, Utah after a long illness. Don was born June 24, 1930, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, the son of Cecil and Irene Fleshe Jutras. Don spent his early childhood in Minnesota, and enjoyed many happy years exploring the woods and fishing with his uncles. He spent several summers working at...

Earl Joseph Davis

Earl Joseph Davis

Feb 12, 2014

Layton / St. George, Utah - Earl Joseph Davis was born November 17, 1921 in Carey, Idaho to Jennie Madeline Timmins and Joseph Godsall Davis. Earl spent many wonderful years at his fish creek ranch home in Idaho. He saved money to go on a mission but Pearl Harbor changed his plans and he enlisted as a Marine in...

Lola Platts Flowers

Lola Platts Flowers

Feb 12, 2014

St. George, Utah - Lola Platts Flowers passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 surrounded by her family. She was born on December 6, 1920 in Lyman, Wyoming to John and Irene Rollins Platts. She was one of 17 children. She migrated to California during World War II and worked in the Consolidated Aircraft plant in...

Harold Harrison Brandt

Harold Harrison Brandt

Feb 9, 2014

St. George, Utah - Harold Harrison Brandt, 90, passed away February 9, 2014 in his sleep. He was born December 17, 1923 in Stockton, Kansas to Christian Louis and Olah Velma Brandt. Harold served his country in WWII with the U.S. Army. He worked his way up to the Union Pacific Railroad from telegraph operator through dispatcher,...

Hugh A. Binning

Hugh A. Binning

Feb 7, 2014

St. George, Utah - Hugh A. Binning, age 95, passed away February 7, 2014. He was born August 17, 1918 in Coshocton, Ohio to Roy and Nan Shrimplin Binning. He had two brothers and one sister. He attended elementary schools in Coshocton and West Lafayette, Ohio. He played trombone in the high school band, in the orchestra for the...

Jonathan Weston Twiggs

Jonathan Weston Twiggs

Feb 6, 2014

Santa Clara, Utah - Jonathan Weston Twiggs, beloved son of Ted and MaryAnn Maughan Twiggs, passed away February 6, 2014 at his home in Santa Clara, Utah. He was born May 28, 1988 at Desert Samaritan Hospital in Tempe, Arizona. He weighed 8 lbs 3 ½ oz and was 21 inches long. He was a big baby and proceeded to...

Helen Louise Parry Thomas

Helen Louise Parry Thomas

Feb 3, 2014

"We are not human beings having occasional spiritual experiences. We are spiritual beings having occasional human experiences." Teilhard de Chardin 1881 - 1955 Hurricane, Utah - Our Heavenly Father called Helen Louise Parry Thomas home from this earthly experience on February 3, 2014. She was born on April 27, 1937, in Cedar City, Utah to Chauncey Gardner Parry and Helen...

Ethel Matilda Crosby

Ethel Matilda Crosby

Feb 2, 2014

Hurricane, Utah - Ethel Matilda Crosby 88, passed away on February 2, 2014. She was born February 23, 1925 in St. Phillips, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada to Richard A. Squires and Alice Maud Tucker.

Graveside services will be held Friday, February 7, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at the Mountain View Memorial Park Mortuary,7900 East Main Street,...

Noma Leavitt Clark

Noma Leavitt Clark

Feb 2, 2014

St. George, UT - Noma Leavitt Clark, 80, passed away on February 2, 2014 in St. George, Utah following a short bout with cancer. She was born December 14, 1933 in Mesquite, Nevada to Heber Chase Leavitt and Mildred Hughes. She married her sweetheart Robert Earl Clark on October 21, 1950 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their marriage was later solemnized...

Edna R. Jones

Edna R. Jones

Feb 2, 2014

St. George, UT - Edna R. Jones, age 89, passed away on February 2, 2014 in St. George, Utah. She was born on September 27, 1924, in Salt Lake City, Utah to James and Edna Sullivan. She attended local schools graduating from East High School. She met and soon married her only love, Loren "Bud" Jones. Edna...

Ida Merle Frandsen Mitchell Staheli

Ida Merle Frandsen Mitchell Staheli

Jan 31, 2014

Enterprise, Utah - Our dear mother and grandmother, Ida Merle Mitchell Frandsen Staheli, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer on January 31, 2014 at the home of her daughter, RoLana Marshall, in Spanish Fork, Utah. She was born to Marvin Young Mitchell and Valda Maria Radmall on May 11, 1927 in Roosevelt, Utah. She graduated from Roosevelt...

Bette Jane Bush

Bette Jane Bush

Jan 30, 2014

St. George, Utah - Our beautiful and amazing mother, Bette Jane Lucas Bush, passed away peacefully on January 30, 2014, completing a full and rich life of love, service, and faith. Bette was born on August 6, 1922, in Los Angeles, to Eben and Edith Hall Lucas. When she was 10 years old her father was killed in a...

Lee Richard Warren

Lee Richard Warren

Jan 30, 2014

St. George, Utah - Lee Richard Warren passed away January 30, 2014. He was born September 4, 1918 in Price, Utah to Vernal and Rosie Milano Warren. In 1942, he married Eileen Bernard in Newport, RI.

Lee served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and the Korean War. He achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He...

Carma Luana Ward Casper

Carma Luana Ward Casper

Jan 30, 2014

St. George, UT - Carma Luana Ward Casper, age 80, our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, returned home to her Heavenly Father on January 30, 2014.

She was born on February 4, 1933, in Rigby, Idaho, the youngest of eight children born to Abram Ward and Pollie Prescott Ward. Carma was raised in Rigby...

Evalue "Lue" Jensen

Evalue "Lue" Jensen

Jan 28, 2014

St. Georgre, Utah - EvaLue Lue Jensen, 82, passed away on January 28, 2014 at the Dixie Regional Medical Center. She was born March 9, 1932 in Cove, Utah and was the second of seven children to Nelse and Grace Frandsen. She had another eight stepbrothers and stepsisters from Nelses first marriage. Lue served as a Sergeant in the...

Jon Payton Alexander

Jon Payton Alexander

Jan 27, 2014

St. George, UT - Our beloved husband, father, son, brother and friend, Jon Payton Alexander, passed away on January 27, 2014 after a valiant and strong battle with colon cancer.

Jon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 15, 1966 and was adopted by Doris and LaRay Alexander. He was raised in Blanding, Utah. Jon...