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Lila Hunter
Jan 17, 2015
Our beloved mother, sister and grandmother, Lila Virginia Hansen Hunter, passed away on January 17, 2015. Mom was born May 5, 1927 at home in Salt Lake City, Utah to Mahlin Sirus Hansen and Bertha Delilah Ohran. She was oldest of 5 children. Virginia moved to Speedway, Indiana at age 3 and returned to Utah in 1942. She attended American...
Donald Mower
Jan 17, 2015
Donald Lee Mower (82) passed away peacefully on January 17, 2015 at his home in American Fork, Utah surrounded by his family. He was born July 17, 1932 in Spring Canyon, Utah. He grew up in Springville and American Fork. Don was the seventh of nine children born to Clarence and Leona Mower. He is survived by four of his...
Lewis Garrett
Jan 17, 2015
Lt. Col. Lewis Eugene Garrett (Ret) left his earthly existence to join his eternal companion on January 17, 2015. He was born on May 22, 1934, to Amy Buchanan and Dean Garrett in Venice, Utah. His early years were spent in Los Angeles, California. At age 10, his family moved to American Fork, Utah where he first met Shirley Richards....
LaRae Adams
Jan 16, 2015
LaRae Pectol Adams, born on 10/23/1951, life time resident of American Fork passed away Sunday 1/11/15. She is survived by her husband Edmund Adams. LaRae is the child of Melvin and Ramona Pectol. She has no surviving siblings or children. At the age of 8 LaRae was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints....
David FAckrell
Jan 14, 2015
David Max Fackrell, 89, passed away January 14, 2015 in Highland, Utah. Born April 3, 1925 in Hunter, Utah to Leo Parley and Mary Eusebia Smith Fackrell. He married Vonetta Maurine Hardman May 26, 1944, in Magna, Utah. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Max worked at Kennecott for 33 years. He owned and operated Fackrell...
Wilford Nelson
Jan 14, 2015
Wilford Osmond Nelson Jr. Wilford [Bill] Osmond Nelson Jr. was born in American Fork, Utah on August 21,1921. He was the second son of Stella and Wilford Osmond [Ossie] Nelson, Sr. Bill married Ellen [Jo Ellen]Maurice Richins on December 26,1942. They were sealed in the Mesa, Arizona LDS temple. He was a veteran of World War II and served in...
LaVon Hansen
Jan 10, 2015
LaVon Harrington Bennett Hansen passed away peacefully at her home January 10, 2015 surrounded by the family she loved so much. She was born December 23, 1924 in American Fork. (The city that her great-grandfather Harrington was the first mayor.) She was the only child of LaVon Harrington Bennett and Jonathan Eslie Bennett. She met and married the love of...
Helen Steffen
Jan 10, 2015
Helen Evans Steffen passed away January 10, 2015 at her home in American Fork in the loving care of her family. She was born June 20, 1927 in Provo, Utah the daughter of Lamar Stanford and Fern Curtis Evans. She married Walter Eugene Steffen January 24, 1949 and they were later sealed on October 16, 1958. Many people were enriched...
Verlon Thomas
Jan 7, 2015
Verlon Eugene Thomas, 87, passed away quietly at home on January 7, 2015. He was born in tiny Castle Gate, Utah. He and his ten siblings grew up with lots of love and fun in a little house across from the leafy Spanish Fork central park. He married Clara Lenora Irvine on September 29, 1954 and remained amazed and grateful...
Jacquetta Cook
Jan 6, 2015
Jacquetta (Mona) Barrus Nelson Cook Born on June 15, 1927 in Provo, Utah to her parents Lester M. and Leora Barrus. Married Neal A. Nelson and had two children, Roy David and Cheryl Jenene. Later divorced. Worked at the Utah Press Association from 1953 to 1972 and left there to marry John Call Cook and moved to Dallas, Texas where...
Rachel Wilde
Jan 5, 2015
Rachel Aileen Wilde passed away peacefully in American Fork, Utah on January 5, 2015 at the age of 53, after a long illness. Rachel is survived by her sisters, Lillie Hare of American Fork, Utah; Linda Davis of Manti, Utah; and Ann Stauffer of Saratoga Springs, Utah. She was preceded in death by her twin sister, Ruth Wilde, her mother...
Reva White
Jan 4, 2015
Reva Elizabeth Myers White passed away peacefully at age 93 on January 4, 2015 in Sandy, Utah. She was born April 19, 1921 in Highland, Utah to Elizabeth Grace Kitchen Myers and Gilbert Yost Myers, the second of 5 children. She was raised in Highland, Utah and went to school in Highland and American Fork where she was active in...
Robert Weight
Jan 3, 2015
Robert Hogan Weight, age 96, died at the Bel Aire Senior Living Center in American Fork, UT, January 3, 2015. Robert was born Oct 1, 1918 in Springville, Utah; the first of 8 children to Willis Alfred and Mary Jane Hogan Weight. He grew up farming with his dad in Springville, UT and the family homestead ranch. Having strong mathematics...
Kent Walter
Jan 2, 2015
Kent Walter, of Alpine, Utah, passed away January 2, 2015 in Salt Lake City due to complications from bladder cancer. He was born January 3, 1948 in Billings, Montana, the son of Alvin Samuel and Laurue Nelson Walter. Kent married Diane Brinkerhoff November 25, 1972, in the Provo LDS Temple, Provo, Utah. Kent enjoyed horse riding, road biking, hunting, playing...
Lorilee Rowley
Dec 21, 2014
Lorilee Ellertson Rowley, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on December 21, 2014 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was born October 24, 1955 in Salt Lake City, the daughter of Richard Lee and Dana Boswell Ellertson. She married Creig C. Rowley on March 3, 1978 in the Salt Lake Temple. Her loving disposition blessed the lives of everyone...
Julie Cage
Dec 21, 2014
Julie Ann Cage, age 40, passed away December 21, 2014 in American Fork. Born August 26, 1974 to Thomas Stephen Cage and Jeanette Humes Cage. She is survived by her father Thomas, her mother and step father Jeanette and Thomas Kummer. Funeral Services will be held Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at the American Fork 6th Ward, 300...
Malcolm Beck
Dec 17, 2014
Malcolm H Beck, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, son, uncle and friend, passed away in American Fork, UT on December 17, 2014. He and his twin Duane were born on November 16, 1929 to Elizabeth"Maggie" Orr Beck and Stephen F. Beck in Heber City, UT. One of 13 children, Malc loved family, friends, politics and basketball. Growing up on a...
Rufus Patterson
Dec 9, 2014
Our loving Father, grandfather, and friend, Rufus Robert Patterson 93, returned to his Heavenly Father December 9, 2014 at his home in Alpine Utah. He was born September 15, 1921 in Magna, Utah to Robert and Eudora Patterson. He served in the Pacific warfare as a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy - joining after the Pearl Harbor bombing in...
Darrell wanlass
Dec 8, 2014
Darrell Burt Wanlass, 50, of Salt Lake City passed away December 8, 2014 at his home after a long battle with multiple illnesses. He was born September 18, 1964 in American Fork the son of Darrell Jackson and Marilyn Burt Wanlass. He was a sports fan who loved the JAZZ and the U. He is very loved by his family...
Janice Reudter
Dec 3, 2014
Janice Mary Jones Reudter, 76, passed away at her daughter's home with family by her side December 3, 2014. Born November 30, 1938 in Murray, Utah the daughter of Paul Russell and Alice Afton Conder Jones. She married Fredrick William Reudter Jr. June 30 1956 in Salt Lake City, Utah they later divorced. Family and friends were Janice's passion and...
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