Obituaries

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

Brian Belmont

Brian Belmont

Dec 11, 2009

Enterprise, UT - Brian Matti Belmont was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada where he attended local schools. At the age of 17, he worked as a pot washer at the Dunes Hotel and earned money for passage to Europe. He toured several countries with a school group during the summer before his senior year. While in Europe he...

Robert Willard Apperson

Robert Willard Apperson

Dec 11, 2009

Robert Willard Apperson St. George, UT - Robert Willard Apperson passed away December 11, 2009, in St. George, UT, at the age of 88. He was born November 22, 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa. When he was a young boy, Robert and his parents, Grace Mae (Richards) and Otto Clyde Apperson, moved to Southern California. Robert, an only child, was...

Arthur Raymond Ramos

Arthur Raymond Ramos

Dec 11, 2009

St. George, Utah - Arthur Raymond Ramos passed away December 11, 2009 at the age of 94. He was born May 28, 1915 in Culiacan, Mexico, State of Sinaloa. At the age of 3, he came to the US and settled in Los Angeles, California. In 1938 he married his wife and loving companion Jessie Gonzales. He enlisted in the...

Elizabeth Gregerson

Elizabeth Gregerson

Dec 9, 2009

St. George, UT - Elizabeth Woodbury Gregerson was born March 28, 1924, and died December 9, 2009, at 85 years of age. She was born and died in St. George, Utah, the eighth child of John Taylor Woodbury, Jr. and Nimzar Gagosian. Elizabeth married and divorced Dwayne G. Wood. She married Eugene Hanks Gregerson on September 25, 1947. Beth and...

Myrtle Branham Heywood

Myrtle Branham Heywood

Dec 8, 2009

St. George, UT - Myrtle Branham Heywood, 94, joined her eternal companion on December 8, 2009. She was born April 11, 1915, to Bertha L. Pitts and Samuel T. Branham. She married J. Karl Heywood on August 15, 1956, in the St. George LDS Temple. Myrtle was born in Thatcher, Arizona, and raised in Northern Wisconsin. In 1941, she served...

John Christopher Kabey

John Christopher Kabey

Dec 5, 2009

St. George, UT - John Christopher Kabey passed away December 5, 2009. He was born January 14, 1964 in Torrance, CA to William Joseph and Ina Lee Kabey. He enjoyed working at Kolob Care Center, where he had many friends. John is survived by his father ,William (Bonnie) Kabey of St. George, UT; mother, Ina Kabey of Newberry Park, CA;...

Jim Jones

Jim Jones

Dec 5, 2009

Cedar City, UT - Cedar City native and noted artist, Jim Jones, died peacefully at his home in Rockville, Utah on December 5, 2009. He was 76 years old. He was one of two surviving sons of Elton L. and Thelma E. Jones, preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Alan Scott Jones. He has been recognized as...

Robert "Grizz" Fuller

Robert "Grizz" Fuller

Dec 5, 2009

Henderson, NV - Robert Louis Grizz Fuller, age 75, passed away Saturday, December 5, 2009 in Henderson, Nevada. He was born July 1, 1934 in Syracuse, New York to Reginald Lewis and Hope Wade Rider Fuller. On November 16, 1957 he married Evelyn Alger of Enterprise, Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert grew up in New York. As a...

Marguerite Sandstrom Adams

Marguerite Sandstrom Adams

Dec 4, 2009

St. George, UT - Marguerite Sandstrom Adams was born September 11, 1936 to Alonzo August and VeRue Tullis Sandstrom. She was the oldest of five children: David, John, Jerald, and Charlene. Marguerite grew up in Eureka, Utah and graduated with the title of Valedictorian from Eureka High School. She married Vee Moroni Adams November 5, 1954, although they later divorced....

Sarah May Jansen

Sarah May Jansen

Nov 30, 2009

St. George, UT - Sarah (Sally) Jansen, age 86, passed away Monday, November 30, 2009 in St. George, Utah.. Sarah was born May 15, 1923 in Franklin, Arizona to Milo T. Gale and Zylpha Merrill Gale. She graduated from high school and went on to become a licensed beautician. While living in Phoenix, Arizona, she met and married Kenneth E....

Evva Garrett

Evva Garrett

Nov 28, 2009

St. George, UT - Our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother and sister, Evva Marie Weatherston Garrett of St. George, passed away from injuries suffered in a fall in San Diego, California, November 28, 2009, while visiting family. She was surrounded by her children at the time of her death. She was born March 8, 1921, in Sugar...

Barbara Wells Friedel

Barbara Wells Friedel

Nov 26, 2009

St. George, UT - Barbara Wells Crook Friedel, age 86, passed away on Thanksgiving, November 26, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. She was born December 16, 1922 in Salt Lake City, Utah to John G. Crook and Clarice Thorpe Wells Crook. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt and wonderful friend. Barbara graduated from East High...

Elna Huntsman Gentry

Elna Huntsman Gentry

Nov 24, 2009

St. George, UT - Elna Huntsman Gentry, 81, passed away on November 24, 2009. She was born in Provo, Utah on May 10, 1928. She was the baby of four children to Solon Ralph and Jetta Mariah Huntsman. She married Austin McAllister Gentry on July 16, 1946, in the St. George LDS Temple. They made their home in St. George...

Suzanne Kirtley Bonzo

Suzanne Kirtley Bonzo

Nov 23, 2009

Cedar City, UT - Suzanne Kirtley Bonzo slipped the bonds of earth on 23 November 2009. She was released from her many years of confinement due to Muscular Dystrophy and Diabetes. Emily Dickinsons words seem appropriate: Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me .... She was surrounded by her family and loving husband who has...

Bernard Kastler

Bernard Kastler

Nov 22, 2009

St. George. UT - Bernard Zane "Bud" Kastler was a man whose heart and hands reached out to touch nearly every aspect of life in Utah: from business - where he served nearly 35 years in senior leadership and eventually as President/CEO and Chairman of Questar, Utah's natural gas utility; to politics as a representative in the Utah State Legislature...

Ben Sisneros Jr.

Ben Sisneros Jr.

Nov 21, 2009

Ben Sisneros Jr. Syracuse, Utah - Ben Sisneros Jr, 70 passed away peacefully in his home on November 21, 2009 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born April 29, 1939 in Phoenix, Arizona to Ben Sisneros and Juanita Rameriz. He married Linda Jean Scott on April 11, 1959. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple....

Doreen Latoski

Doreen Latoski

Nov 20, 2009

Diamond Valley, UT - Doreen Latoski returned home to her Heavenly Father on November 20, 2009. She was born July 19, 1936 in Rodborough, England to George and Edna May. Doreen came to the United states in 1956. She was married to Chester Lounsbury and had three children. Doreen joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1962....

Mildred Larkin

Mildred Larkin

Nov 20, 2009

St. George, UT - Mildred Brunker Larkin was born on the 23rd of September, 1914, in Willard, Utah, to Leslie Cook Brunker and Mae Augusta Olson as the 2nd child. She passed away gently on the 20th of November, 2009, at home in St. George, Utah. Mildred lost her beloved husband, Conrad Joseph Larkin, in a plane accident October 28,...

Rol Sutton

Rol Sutton

Nov 17, 2009

St. George, UT - Roland Clell Sutton, Jr. was born February 2, 1926 in Indianapolis, Indiana; the son of Roland Clell Sutton, Sr. and Lela Ester Grigsby. Rol grew up in Indiana and remained a true Hoosier all of his life. Each time he would cross the state line of Indiana he would sing Back Home Again in Indiana ....

Patricia T. Austin

Patricia T. Austin

Nov 16, 2009

St. George, UT - Patricia Lee Torrey Austin, 75, passed away peacefully on Nov. 16, 2009. She left this world in her home surrounded by her family, after a short but valiant fight with lung cancer. Mom was born in St. Anthony, Idaho, on July 29, 1934. She was the baby of three children born to Ross and Esther Torrey....