Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Families in St. George, Hurricane, and surrounding Southern Utah communities
Robert Kent Hunt
Feb 17, 2019
Enterprise, Utah – After a three year courageous battle with esophageal cancer, Robert Kent Hunt, 68, went to his Heavenly Home on February 17, 2019 to be reunited with his son, brother, parents and grandparents. Robert was born July 21, 1950 in Cedar City, Utah to LeGrand A and Anna Carol Bracken Hunt. He married Cheryl Luezon Truman...
Edward William Andrews
Feb 10, 2019
St. George, Utah – Edward William Andrews, 78, of Saint George, Utah, passed away peacefully surrounded by family Sunday, February 10, 2019. He was born in Coronado, California, the son of Ruth Kennedy.
Ed was...
Shirley Lauver Anderson
Feb 9, 2019
St. George, Utah – Shirley Lauver Anderson, 89, passed away February 9, 2019. She grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the daughter Merle and Annie Lauver. She attended Brigham Young University, where she studied theater arts and was also the 1947 Banyan Queen. While attending BYU she met a dashing,...
Luana Packer Halversen
Feb 8, 2019
St. George, Utah – On February 8, 2019, at 105 years young, Luana Packer Halversen passed from the limitations of this life into the freedoms of the next. There to welcome her were her husband A. Reed Halversen, who passed away February 27, 1984, and her daughter Nita (Neal) Rosenbaum, who passed away September 26, 1987. Her parents,...
Ruth Joan Wildrick
Feb 5, 2019
St. George, Utah – Ruth Joan Wildrick, 94, passed away February 5, 2019. She was born May 13, 1924 in Kewanee, Illinois to Estella Lena Richardson and Walter Beckam Stroud. She graduated from high school during WWII and went to work as a stenographer in the Pentagon. While visiting her brother who was a cadet at the United...
Nelda Ann Brooks
Feb 5, 2019
Nelda Ann Brooks, 84, died February 5, 2019, in St. George, Utah. She was born April 13, 1934 to DeVoyal and Noma Harward. On May 27, 1952 she married her sweetheart, William Bruce Brooks, in the Salt Lake Temple. Together they raised seven children and for Nelda, her family was everything. She spent her last years as a widow focused...
Ava Rose Caside Orellana
Feb 3, 2019
Ava Rose Caside Orellana passed away February 3, 2019. She was born October 31, 2018 in St. George, Utah to Taylor Jade Hansen and Miguel Armando Orellana-Monge.
Graveside services will be held Monday, February 11, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. in the...
Carolyn Ruth Whitaker Adams
Feb 3, 2019
St. George, Utah – Carolyn Ruth Adams returned home peacefully to Heavenly Father on February 3, 2019 in St. George, Utah at the age of 81.
Carolyn was born on July 9, 1937 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Fred and Ruth (Martineau) Whitaker. She graduated from Millard...
Charlene Sherry Deuel
Feb 3, 2019
St. George, Utah – Charlene Sherry Deuel passed from this life on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at the age of 93, due to complications from a fall. She was born on December 25, 1925 in Robbins, Tennessee to Charles and Georgia Sloan Boles. She married E. Kay Deuel in July of 1948 in Reno Nevada, and later sealed...
Theodore Robert "Bob" Cochran
Jan 26, 2019
Ivins, Utah – Theodore Robert "Bob" Cochran passed away January 26, 2019 at the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins, Utah at the age of 89. He was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1929 to Theodore Record and Idella Rose Luffy Cochran. He was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Kathryn Joyce Cochran McDonnell,...
Thomas Anison Smyly
Jan 24, 2019
St. George, Utah – Thomas Anison Smyly, son of Marvin and Zona Ruth Tannehill Smyly, died peacefully surrounded by his family on January 24, 2019. He was born in Uniontown, Alabama but grew up on a farm in Axis, Alabama. At the age of 8, he was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and...
Olivia Cerda Garza
Jan 24, 2019
St. George, Utah - Olivia Cerda Garza, 74, has peacefully returned home to the gates of heaven on January 24, 2019. She was born on February 10, 1944 in Edinburg, Texas, to Alejos Cerda and Juana Luna Cerda. She was a beautiful and loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and friend. She was married to Alabe Garza...
Helen Jensen Ortiz
Jan 22, 2019
Cedar City, Utah – Helen Jensen Ortiz, 93, passed away January 22, 2019 at the Beehive Care Center in Cedar City, Utah. She was born August 13, 1925 in Joseph, New Mexico.
Helen was a lifelong homemaker, caregiver and...
Afton Bateman
Jan 22, 2019
Afton Jones Bateman, 95, passed from this life on January 22, 2019, in St. George, Utah. She was born in 1923 in Cedar City, Utah to H. Marvin and Lucy Esplin Jones. She married Alfred Van Orden (Orden) Bateman on May 21, 1946 in the St. George Temple.
Charles Freeman
Jan 20, 2019
Charles Henry "Chick" Freeman, 82, died at his home on Sunday, 20 January 2019. He was born 13 March 1936 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri to Douglas Delroy and Leona Evelyn Biddinger Freeman. He married Katherine Holladay in the Salt Lake Temple on 3 May 1985.
Norman Henry Carlisle
Jan 19, 2019
Norman Henry Carlisle, 82, passed away January 19, 2019. He was born on June 9, 1936 in Murray Utah to Milton and Eva Jane Silcox Carlisle.
Norman grew up in a small home at 3876...
Russell Douglas Nielson
Jan 19, 2019
Russell Douglas Nielson, 43, passed away Saturday, January 19, 2019. He was born August 11, 1975 in Murray, Utah to Douglas Boyd and Julia Davis Nielson, and was raised in Bloomington, Utah. He married Joanna Leary Nielson on June 7, 1997 in the Saint George Temple.
Wayne H. Houston
Jan 16, 2019
Santa Clara, Utah – Wayne H. Houston born October 7, 1927 in Richfield, Utah, departed this earthly life January 16, 2019 to be with his eternal sweetheart, Ramona Faye Hogue Houston. Wayne was born the fourth of nine children to Tommy Ray and Emma Haywood Houston. After a brief courtship, Wayne and Ramona were married in his childhood...
Gerald "Gerry" Murdock
Jan 14, 2019
Springdale, Utah - Gerald "Gerry" Murdock, 90, passed away January 14, 2019. He was born in Harrisville, Utah July 10, 1928 to Levi Peterson Murdock and Mabel Stanger Murdock. He attended Ogden City schools and graduated in 1946 from Ogden High School. During his high school years and later he worked as a surveyor building highways in National...
Reta Renae Fehlman Woodhouse
Jan 12, 2019
St. George, Utah – Our beautiful happy and loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, and dearest friend, Reta Renae Fehlman Woodhouse, age 76, passed peacefully, on Saturday, January 12, 2019. She was born May 11, 1942 in Brigham City, Utah to Twila Oman Fehlman and Almy Fehlman. Renae lived in Yost, Utah for the first...


