Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Families in St. George, Hurricane, and surrounding Southern Utah communities
Clara Thelma Walden
Jan 27, 2011
St. George, Utah - Clara Thelma Walden passed away January 27, 2011. She was born April 5, 1921 Ashland, Kentucky to Luther Haden Willis and Carrie Verna Miranda Willis. She married Roy Staley Walden in Grayson County, Kentucky on December 4, 1937. They raised their family in Burlington, WA Clara grew up in Ashland, Kentucky. She had a love for...
Nellie Matheson Hirschi Bauer
Jan 25, 2011
St. George, UT - Nellie Matheson Hirschi Bauer, age 82, passed away on January 25, 2011 at Dixie Regional Medical Center of a massive stroke. She went peacefully to our loving Lord and Savior. She was born on February 5, 1928 in Parowan, Utah and was the youngest of 12 children born to David and Elizabeth Mickelson Matheson. On December...
Nancy Jean Blackmer
Jan 23, 2011
St. George, UT - Nancy Jean Blackmer returned home to the open arms of her Heavenly Father and her husband Robert on January 23, 2011. Nancy was born on November 14, 1932 in Muncie, Indiana to Irvin Perry and Dollie Heritage. Nancy spent most of her life in Muncie, Indiana. She married Robert H. Blackmer on July 9, 1949. Their...
Joseph E. Stern
Jan 21, 2011
St. George, Utah - Joe lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on January 21, 2011. Born on March 23, 1941 in Escanaba, MI to William Stern and Georgiana Stern (Marcoe),. He had four sisters: Mary Rosalie (deceased), Judith, Eve and Maryanne; and one brother, William, Jr. Joe is survived by his loving wife, Nancy Jo Stern (Ciohon) of St. George,...
Dorothy Jean Davis
Jan 21, 2011
St. George, Utah - Dorothy Jean W. Davis, our mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother passed away Friday, January 21, 2011 after a short battle with anaplastic thyroid cancer. She was born April 30, 1926 in Evanston, WY to Wallace W. White and Mabel Sparks White, the second of six daughters. She married Virgil Gene Davis in Evanston, WY and the...
Adrian Earl Ferguson, Jr.
Jan 21, 2011
Adrian Earl Ferguson, Jr. St. George, Utah - Adrian Earl Ferguson, Jr. passed away January 21, 2011. He was born May 14, 1926 in Stockton, Utah to Adrian Earl and Dorothy Gertrude Gundry Ferguson. He married Beverly Jean Larson February 4, 1950, later solemnized in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. Adrian was raised in Salt Lake City and attended...
Edna Jean Cummings
Jan 20, 2011
St. George, UT - Edna Jean Forsyth Cummings, 83,was born the eldest of two children to Cleon Christopher Forsyth and Glenona Dean Bybee on June 6, 1972 in Modesto, California. She returned to her Heavenly home on January 20, 2011 in St. George, Utah.. She grew up in Stockton, California and was educated there. She began her college education at...
Reah Reber
Jan 20, 2011
St. George, Utah - Reah Reber, (our classy lady) 36 years, passed away Thursday, January 20, 2011 in St. George, Utah. She was the third daughter of Dan Rumell and Christine Jensen Reber born February 19, 1974 in St. George, Utah. Reah was raised in Littlefield, Arizona and went to school in Mesquite, Nevada. She is survived by her parents;...
Lavoid Sidney Leavitt
Jan 19, 2011
St. George, Utah - Lavoid Sidney Leavitt, 91, passed away January 19, 2011 in St. George, Utah. He was born September 16, 1919 to James Sidney and Inez Knight Leavitt in the old McGregor Hospital. He married Harriet Anna Anderson on June 14, 1942 in Reno, Nevada and they were sealed two weeks later in the St. George LDS Temple....
Arden Lowell Scott
Jan 19, 2011
Ivins, Utah - Arden Lowell Scott, 88, passed away January 19, 2011 at his home in Ivins, Utah. He was born December 10, 1922 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jennie Shupp and George Robert Scott, but was raised by his mother and Henry Christensen. He married Nancy Joyce Hatch in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple on July 18, 1946....
Lorraine Laub Gubler
Jan 10, 2011
St. George, Utah - Lorraine Laub Gubler passed away January 10, 2011. He was born July 19, 1935 in Ivins, Utah to Martin Jacob and Jennie Lewema Laub Gubler. Lorraine graduated form Dixie High School and attended Ventura College in Ventura, California. He then joined the U.S. Air Force and retired from the Air Force in 1975. After retiring, he...
Jay "Blayne" Barton
Jan 8, 2011
St. George, Utah - Loving husband, father, brother and grandfather, Jay Blayne Barton passed away January 8, 2011 surrounded by his family and friends, after a valiant battle with dementia. Born in St. George, Utah, on March 10, 1930 to Alma Ross Barton and Wilhelmina Alice Cannon. Blayne, one of ten children, spent his childhood in St. George working for...
Robert "Bob" Heywood
Jan 8, 2011
Hurricane, Utah - Robert (Bob) Leland Heywood, 70, was called back to his Heavenly Father on January 8, 2011. Bob was born on March 5, 1940 in Hurricane, Utah to Gardiner and Wealthy Heywood. He was sealed for time & all eternity to his high school sweetheart, Mavis Ruth Edwards, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on June 8, 1961....
Frank D. Harris
Jan 7, 2011
ST. GEORGE, UTAH - Frank D. Harris, age 79, passed away January 7, 2011 in St. George, Utah of kidney cancer. He was born December 15, 1931 in Los Angeles, California to Wayne F. Harris and Ethel D. Piquet Harris. He married his sweetheart Mariela M. Smith. They were sealed for time and all eternity in the Washington D.C. LDS...
Marilyn Ambrose
Jan 5, 2011
Marilyn Ambrose (For Spectrum) St. George, Utah - Marilyn Ambrose passed away January 5, 2011. She was born December 28, 1928 in Kirkville, Iowa .to Howard and Vivian Akins Siegrist. In 2009, she moved to St. George, Utah from Baker, Nevada. She was a member of the Calvary Chapel of St. George. She is survived by a brother, Gerald Siegrist...
John Stolen
Jan 4, 2011
St. George, Utah - John Stolen, age 58, passed away in his sleep on January 4 at his home in St. George, Utah. He was born August 14, 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa to Lyder J. and Arlene Stolen. He married Lisa Thurber on June 7, 1980. John was born in Iowa, lived in Chicago, and moved to Salt Lake...
Richard H. Johnson
Jan 3, 2011
St. George, UT - Richard H. Johnson, beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away January 3, 2011, after a brief illness. He was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1934, and moved to Southern California at an early age. He graduated from BYU in 1959. He met and married Mary Ann Lewis while at school and they moved to...
Leah Pickering Murie
Jan 3, 2011
Washington, Utah - Our beloved mother, grandmother and friend passed away January 3, 2011. Mom was born October 4, 1924 in St. George, Utah to Ernest Arthur Pickering and Mary Ann Winsor Pickering. Mom was raised in Enterprise, Utah with her four brothers and one sister. She spoke often her youth and helping the family work on the farm. Mom...
Joann Twitchell Holt
Jan 1, 2011
Enterprise, Utah - Our beloved JoAnn Twitchell Holt, 64, died Saturday, January 1, 2011, in an automobile accident, near Enterprise, Utah. She was born September 17, 1946, in Cedar City, Utah to Charles and Etta Twitchell, and is the eldest of seven children. She married her high school sweetheart Robert Jay Holt on December 19, 1964, in the St. George...
Scott Clark Peterson
Dec 31, 2010
Toots Scott Clark Peterson, age 57, passed away with his family by his side on the night of December 31, 2010. He concluded his 13 month battle with brain cancer in peace and with love in his heart. Scottie was born on June 29, 1953 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Lloyd and Mayme Peterson. Even though his older brother,...


