Orem, UT Obituaries

E. Hatch

Feb 20, 2016

E. Farr Hatch passed away peacefully in his home February 20, 2016. He was 89. Farr was born September 23, 1926 in Orem, UT to Elmer Webb and Tressa Farr Hatch. His childhood was spent between Woodruff, and Mesa Arizona and Payson and Provo Utah. At the age of 17, during World War II he enlisted in the Navy and...

Grajeda David

Feb 19, 2016

Alfonso David-Grajeda, age 37, of Orem, passed away February 19, 2016 after a work related accident. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the Sundberg-Olpin Funeral Home, 495 South State Street, Orem. A viewing will be held Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. and also Tuesday 9:30 a.m. to 10:a.m. prior to the...

Charles Hanks

Feb 16, 2016

Charles Warren Hanks passed away on February 16, 2016. Chalres was born on November 19, 1933 to Spencer Whitaker and Edith Slack. He was later sealed to Raymond Hanks and Edith Slack Hanks. He married Joyce Fairbourn in 1958 and they were blessed with 4 children, 14 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held of Charles on Saturday,...

Margaret Mills

Feb 16, 2016

Margaret Vance Mills, 93, of Provo (formerly of Tempe, AZ) passed away peacefully On the morning of February 16, 2016 of natural causes. She was a resident of Stonehenge Care Facility in American Fork, Utah. Margaret was born in a humble home on the outskirts of Tempe in Guadalupe, AZ on April 26, 1922 to Leonard Absalom and Josephine Spilsbury...

Anthony Marren

Feb 15, 2016

Anthony G. (Tony) Marren died peacefully at his home, with family and friends present, in Orem, UT, on February 15. He was 59. A long-time resident of the Orem/Provo area, Tony was born on December 13, 1956, in Long Island, N.Y. He attended elementary and high school on Long Island. As a young man he was a devoted member of...

Beverly Hale

Feb 14, 2016

Beverly Anne Sillito Hale was born August 3, 1937, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Beverly had many adventures before passing away in Utah, February 14, 2016. Upon graduating from High School in Fort Macleod, Alberta, she entered The Galt School of Nursing in Lethbridge, Alberta, where she received her degree as a Registered Nurse in 1958. She loved nursing, especially working...

Geneva Knell

Feb 9, 2016

Geneva Faye Knell, 91, of Los Altos, California, passed away February 9, 2016. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 20, 2016, at 11:00 am at the Manavu Ward Chapel, 395 East 600 North in Provo. A visitation will be held at the ward chapel one hour prior to the services. Interment will be in the Heber City Cemetery.

W. Wagstaff

Feb 9, 2016

Our beloved brother William Todd Wagstaff passed away peacefully at his home from natural causes in Salt Lake City on February 9, 2016. He was the eldest of five children and was born May 14, 1949 in Provo, Utah to Bert and Betty Wagstaff who have preceded him in death. He graduated from Southern State College, now SUU, in 1976....

Doyle Thurston

Feb 9, 2016

On February 9, 2016, Doyle Q Thurston peacefully left his loving family here on earth and was received into the loving arms of his Savior, his parents, and his loving family on the other side of the veil, as a result of congestive heart failure. Doyle was born August 14, 1923 in Richfield, Utah, to Edwin Elroy and Martena Sorensen...

John Hundley

Feb 6, 2016

John Davis "Jack" Hundley John Davis "Jack" Hundley passed away February 6, 2016 from heart complications. Jack was born July 23, 1931 to Elijah Jefferson and Lola Giles Hundley. As a youth, he lived in Las Vegas, Arizona, and Provo, UT. He graduated from Provo High School in 1949, where he participated in singing, acting, the orchestra, and the track...

Hazel Riggs

Feb 4, 2016

Hazel Dawn Riggs passed away on February 4, 2016 in Orem, Utah. She was born May 23, 1927, in Cedar City, Utah. She attended schools in Mesa, Arizona, and graduated from Mesa Union High School in 1945. Prior to her marriage she attended Brigham Young University and worked as an insurance secretary. In September 1949 she married Robert E. Riggs...

Kay Kempton

Jan 30, 2016

Kay Howard Kempton, 73, passed away on January 30, 2016 in Provo, Utah. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 11, 1942 to Howard William and Mary Alice Davis Kempton, he grew up in Midvale, Utah, and attended Jordan High School, where he excelled in academics and debate. He went on to spend his freshman year at...

Mary Tillack

Jan 30, 2016

Mary Elizabeth (Gardiner) Tillack, age 72, passed away in her home on January 30, 2016 from complications of heart disease. Mary was born March 11, 1943, in Vernal, the youngest of nine children to Carl and Zina Palmer Gardiner. She contracted rheumatic fever and struggled with heart issues. Against doctor's orders, she married and had five children. Knowing that Heavenly...

Norma Smead

Jan 25, 2016

NORMA CROWTHER SMEAD

1927-2016

On January 25, 2016 Norma Mae Crowther Smead, 88, graduated from this life surrounded by her loving family. Norma was born on Memorial Day, May 30, 1927 to George Lester and Elfie Lucille Bjorn Crowther in Salt Lake City. After graduating from South High School she attended the University of Utah, and...

Beth Hurst

Jan 20, 2016

Beth Bryson Hurst, 86, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and sister, passed away on January 20, 2016, surrounded by her loving family. Beth was born October 22, 1929, in Kenilworth, Utah. She was the daughter of Melvin Conrey Bryson and Pearl "Pat" Hale Bryson. Beth grew up in El Paso, Texas, where she attended the Texas College of Mines. Beth married...

Lawrence Morgan

Jan 20, 2016

Lawrence Killpack Morgan graduated from this life on Wednesday, January 20. He is survived by his wife, Antoinette,

9 children and a plethora of grand and great-grandchildren. "We never doubted that we were loved and always knew that he

would be there for us." His example of faith, love, commitment and...

Jeffrey Hillstrom

Jan 16, 2016

Jeffrey Allen Hillstrom passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, January 16, 2016. He was born on April 2, 1949, in Ogden, Utah to Byron Kay and Audrey Almeda Allen Hillstrom, the second of five children, and grew up in Ogden, Utah. He served full-time in the Arizona mission of the LDS Church in 1970-1971, and later served in the U.S. Navy...

Lynn Wright

Jan 15, 2016

Lynn Andrew Wright, age 89, and Imogene Snow Wright, age 86, married for almost 68 years passed away within 48 hours of each other. Lynn left us in the early morning hours of January 15, 2016; and Imogene followed him early in the morning of January 17, 2016 both in Orem, Utah. Lynn and his twin brother were born July...

Warren Anderson

Jan 14, 2016

Warren Nels Anderson died Jan 14, 2016 in American Fork, Utah of natural causes due to old age. He was born Feb 3, 1918 in Pleasant Grove, UT to Victor Wilford & Hilda Swenson Anderson. He married Helen Roxie Green, Oct 9, 1940. After her death he married Ada Anna Peterson Skinner, May 4, 1977. He served in World War...

Robert Hovey

Jan 13, 2016

Robert Hovey passed away on January 13, 2016 at home surrounded by family. Robert was born in Leota, Utah on November 18, 1929 to Bert and Fontella Hovey. He moved at age 12 to Salt Lake City and after 2 years they moved back to their farm on the Green River. Later moving to the Provo Orem area. He graduated...