Obituaries

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

Grace Blair Oliver

Grace Blair Oliver

Jan 5, 2020

Grace Blair Oliver

Cedar City, Utah – Grace Blair Oliver, 91, passed away January 5, 2020. She was born to Parley and Ivy Dean Cowley Blair on November 1, 1928 in Butlerville, Utah.

Grace was a beautiful loving person who helped anyone and everyone. She volunteered throughout her life for any...

Paul Martin Forsberg

Paul Martin Forsberg

Jan 5, 2020

– Paul Martin Forsberg, 73, passed away suddenly on January 5, 2020, in St. George, Utah. He was born April 13, 1946, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to John G. and Norma S. Forsberg.

He grew up in Bountiful, Utah. He graduated from Bountiful High School and then attended Weber State University. During that time, he met...

Howell Pershing Newman

Howell Pershing Newman

Jan 3, 2020

Ivins, Utah - Howell Pershing Newman passed away January 3, 2020 at the Veteran's facility in Ivins, Utah. He was born November 11, 1927 in Springville, Utah to Robert and Irene Clarke Newman. In 1950, he met his future wife, Carolee Childs. They were married on June 1, 1951 in the Salt Lake LDS temple....

Florence V. Focht

Florence V. Focht

Jan 2, 2020

St. George, Utah – Florence V. Focht, 89, passed away after a brief illness on January 2, 2020. She was born June 3, 1930 in Rahway, New Jersey.

Florence is survived by her loving husband of 53 years, Richard Focht; son, James Stinson; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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Anita Gosch Esplin

Anita Gosch Esplin

Jan 1, 2020

Anita Gosch Esplin was born on December 18,1932 in New York City to Siegfried and Mary Gosch. Although she loved living in Utah most of her life, she always considered herself a New Yorker, and was proud to be from the East Coast. In her early twenties, she came west to attend BYU, and later took a...

Maria Preece Larson

Maria Preece Larson

Dec 31, 2019

Maria Preece Larson, 41 years, was called home to her Heavenly Parents on December 31, 2019 as a result of severe complications following an influenza infection. Maria was born May 17, 1978 in Comox, British Columbia, Canada, the third of six children born to Harry Preece and Francine Gauthier.

Maria was raised in humble circumstances in the...

Constance "Connie" Lowery

Constance "Connie" Lowery

Dec 31, 2019

St. George, UT - In loving memory, our mother, Connie JoAnn Lowery, age 75, died on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 in St. George, Utah. Connie was born in Conrad, Montana as an only child to Margaret S. Dahl and Carl Fehige. She was raised in Ashland, Oregon where she enjoyed her friends, 4-H and animals....

Margaret "Marnie" Ball

Margaret "Marnie" Ball

Dec 29, 2019

Margaret Curtis Stifler "Marnie" Ball, 87, passed away December 29, 2019 in St. George, Utah. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 1932. She grew up in Huntington Beach, California and later moved to Arizona with her family. She met Frank D. "Bim" Ball in Phoenix, Arizona. They were married October 10th, 1957 and they took...

Ladell Andersen

Ladell Andersen

Dec 29, 2019

Washington, Utah – Frank Ladell Andersen, 90, passed away peacefully at Dixie Regional Medical Center on Sunday, December 29, 2019 from causes incident to age. He was born on October 25th, 1929 in Malad, Idaho to Laurence Leroy Andersen and Elizabeth Barnett. He married Donna Lou Jensen of Fort Shaw, Montana in the Logan Utah...

Fred Rushton Leavitt

Fred Rushton Leavitt

Dec 24, 2019

St. George – On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2019, Fred Rushton Leavitt, 83, passed away in St. George, Utah from the challenges of this life into the loving arms of his Heavenly Father, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 18, 1936 to Laman Pulsipher and Donna Rushton...

Ruth Sepulveda Gracia

Ruth Sepulveda Gracia

Dec 23, 2019

St. George, Utah – Ruth Sepulveda Gracia, 63, passed away December 23, 2019 at her home in St. George, Utah. She was born October 8, 1956 in Las Cruces, New Mexico to Maximo and Adoracion Soria. She married Samuel Gracia on December 10, 1977 in Santa Ana, California.

Ruth is preceded...

August Charles Stadtmueller

August Charles Stadtmueller

Dec 22, 2019

St. George, Utah - August Charles Stadtmueller, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and brother passed away peacefully December 22, 2019 in St. George, Utah at the age of 88.

A.C. was born in Afton, Wyoming to August Poelt Stadtmueller and Adeline Heiner on April 22, 1931. He had one older sister, Matilda (George Laker)....

Janice Tucker Nielson

Janice Tucker Nielson

Dec 17, 2019

Janice Tucker Nielson was born October 25, 1934 to Byron Edwin Tucker and Zetta Anderson. She passed away December 17, 2019 in St. George, UT.

Janice grew up in Ephraim, UT. She attended Snow College and graduated in 1955. She was sealed to Russell Homer Nielson in the Manti LDS Temple on September 9, 1955. Together they...

Nancy Ellen Folsom Weinheimer

Nancy Ellen Folsom Weinheimer

Dec 16, 2019

Ivins, Utah - Nancy passed away on Dec. 16, 2019 in St. George, UT, at the age of 86. She was born on Nov. 25, 1933, in Salt Lake City, UT, to Donald Whitaker Folsom and Ellen Rose Binns. She was the 5 th of five children and grew up in Salt Lake City and...

Sharon "Butch" M. Bullard

Sharon "Butch" M. Bullard

Dec 15, 2019

Sharon M. "Butch" Bullard, 82, passed away peacefully on December 15, 2019 of natural causes after a long battle with Parkinson's.

Sharon "Butch" Bullard was born in Torrey, Utah, on October 3, 1937, the son of Oral Bullard and Reta Mulford. He graduated from Wayne High School in 1955 and enlisted in the United States Air Force...

Phil Whitehead Moon

Phil Whitehead Moon

Dec 13, 2019

St. George, Utah - At the age of 92, Phil Whitehead Moon passed away after a brief illness on December 13, 2019. He was born November 6,1927 in Pocatello, Idaho to Ralph and Naulda Moon.

After high school in Pocatello Idaho, at the age of 17, Phil enlisted in the US...

Jeane Randall Duke

Jeane Randall Duke

Dec 13, 2019

St. George, Utah - Jeane Randall Duke passed away on December 11, 2019 at the age of 91 at her daughter's home in St. George, Utah.

Jeane was born on February 8, 1928 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Lloyd Franklin Randall and Constance Curtis Young, just 15 minutes before her twin...

Laurie Jane Springer Christensen

Laurie Jane Springer Christensen

Dec 13, 2019

St. George, Utah – Laurie Jane Springer Christensen, 80, passed away on December 13, 2019 at Dixie Regional Medical Center surrounded by family after a brief illness.

She was born January 19, 1939 in Ogden, Utah, the first child of Donald L. and Afton Rose Springer. She grew up in the...

Argene Hall Mills

Argene Hall Mills

Dec 9, 2019

Ivins, Utah – Argene Hall Mills peacefully passed away at home surrounded by her children, David and Deborah, on December 9, 2019.  Her son, Darren, had preceded her in death. She was born March 22, 1945 in Orem, Utah to Eva Reiter and Albert Allen Hall. Argene married Ronald Burt Mills (who passed in 2001)...

Joan Delores Diamond

Joan Delores Diamond

Dec 9, 2019

St. George, UT / Las Vegas, NV - Joan Delores Diamond, age 88, passed peacefully from this life, surrounded by her family on December 9, 2019 in St. George, UT.  She was born October 13, 1931 in Los Angeles, CA to Garnet & Maxwell Galloway.  She married her sweetheart, David on November 3, 1954 in...