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Aaron Wayne Pope

Aaron Wayne Pope

Jul 1, 2022

Aaron Wayne Pope

November 30, 1977-July 1, 2022

 

Aaron W. Pope of Vernal Utah returned home July 1, 2022 at age 44 surrounded by his loved ones. He is survived by his wife Stacey, his 3 children Cohen (Boy), Breanna (Hoowa), and Beckett (Wedgie or Joe). His Mom and Dad, 5 siblings, and 15 nieces and nephews.

Aaron served...

Buddy Allen Russell

Buddy Allen Russell

Jun 25, 2022

****Blackburn Mortuary is not handling the services for Buddy. The family has asked we share his information here.****

It was a beautiful morning in Heaven when our Hero passed.

The morning of June 25, 2022 Buddy Allen Russell, 76, peacefully passed away from a 2-month battle with throat cancer. He passed at his home in Farmington, New Mexico, with the...

Marsha Bell Richardson

Marsha Bell Richardson

Jun 25, 2022

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Marsha Bell Rankin (Richardson)

Marsha Bell Rankin(Richardson) returned to her heavenly father on June 25,2022. She was born October 19,1952 to Jim Rankin and Edith (McCoy) Rankin. She is and always will be known as a wife, mother, grandmother.

She was the most stubbornly independent woman who always put her family first, and loved them fiercely. She was always...

Ardith Minnie Morrill Atwood

Ardith Minnie Morrill Atwood

Jun 23, 2022

Live Stream link: https://my.gather.app/remember/ardith-minnie-atwood 

Ardith Minnie Morrill McClellan Abegglen Atwood

Ardith Minnie Morrill Atwood, age 95, slipped through the veil on June 23, 2022 in Ogden, Utah to join her loving family who were waiting for her return to her heavenly home.  Her death was the result of old age and the ravages of dementia.  Ardith, Mom, Grandma, or Cha...

Joe Paul Rowell

Joe Paul Rowell

Jun 23, 2022

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Our beloved father, grandfather and great grandfather, Joe Paul Rowell passed peacefully from this life on June 23, 2022 in Vernal, Utah.  Joe was a resident of the Vernal Beehive Home where he was loved and well taken care of.  Many thanks to Misti, Chad and the caretakers there.

Joe was born to James Almer and Gertrude White Rowell...

Phyllis A Andrews

Phyllis A Andrews

Jun 18, 2022

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Phyllis A. Andrews was born in Price, Utah on November 22, 1938 to Rell Anderson and Lois Alger.   She passed away surrounded by family on June 18, 2022.  She spent most of her childhood in Sunnyside, Utah.  She graduated from Carbon High School at Price in 1957.  She attended Daryl’s College of Beauty in Salt Lake City, Utah and...

Cathlynn Gardiner

Cathlynn Gardiner

Jun 17, 2022

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Cathlynn was taken back to her loving Heavenly Father and reunited with family on the other side on Friday, June 17, 2022.

Cathlynn Derricott Gardiner was born on Sept 3, 1977. At the time of her birth her family lived in Corrine, UT Cathlynn’ s father was a construction worker who did many jobs around the western United States....

Doris Kathyrn Huber Walker

Doris Kathyrn Huber Walker

Jun 14, 2022

Doris Kathryn Huber Walker

Kathryn was born on June 12, 1927 to Ardith Nielson and Frank Ervin Huber.  She came from very humble circumstances.  Kathryn was born in a log cabin, delivered by a midwife and grew up in the horse and wagon days. Her dad was a sheep herder and spent most of his summers in the mountains.  A...

Juliana Lara Villalba

Juliana Lara Villalba

Jun 3, 2022

Funeral Services Sunday June 5, 2022 at 1 PM at Blackburn Vernal Mortuary

Byron H Colton

Byron H Colton

May 31, 2022

Byron H. Colton passed away May 31, 2022 peacefully and surrounded by family.  He was born December 2nd, 1943, to Merrill B. and Edith Colton in Roosevelt, Utah and learned quickly he had a mechanical knack and could fix anything that was placed in front of him.  This talent would carry on throughout his life and benefit many people.  As...

Daniel Eddy

Daniel Eddy

May 20, 2022

A Celebration of Life will be held June 11 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm at The Gathering Place in Rangely.

Paula Davis

Paula Davis

May 16, 2022

Services for Paula Davis are pending at this time.

CPT Curtis Jackson Baker

CPT Curtis Jackson Baker

May 13, 2022

Curtis Jackson Baker was born on December 23, 1986, to Chris and Diane Baker. He had a passion for hunting, fishing, boating and all things outdoors.  He married his high school sweetheart Sara in June of 2007 and together they had two beautiful daughters Ashlyn and Brooklyn.

Curtis enlisted in the United States Army in 2005 as an AH-64D Apache...

Jay D Slaugh

Jay D Slaugh

May 12, 2022

Jay Slaugh, 71, of Vernal, Utah passed away in his home surrounded by family after a long battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis on May 12, 2022. Jay was born October 11, 1950 in Collburn, Colorado, to Melburn (Bud) Slaugh and Nora Gaudern. He attended Uintah High School in Vernal, Utah and graduated with the class of 1969. Jay was also...

Joan Politte

Joan Politte

May 12, 2022

Joan B. Politte, age 86, of Vernal passed away in her sleep on May 12, 2022. She was born to John Alexander & Pauline Ashbaugh Becker on July 11, 1935. She served our country as a Civil Air Patrol. She loved the outdoors, fishing, hunting, hunting for fossils and arrowheads, and always looking for special rocks. Joan loved small farms....

Patricia Skaar

Patricia Skaar

May 11, 2022

Patricia May Fisher was born May 22, 1933 to Don and Netty Fisher in Vernal, Ut.  She was the oldest daughter of 10 kids.

She grew up as a rancher’s daughter during World War 2 and the great depression.  She would tell stories of how the family traveled the states of Utah, Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho to make a living,...

Patricia J Gilley

Patricia J Gilley

May 7, 2022

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Patricia J. Gilley was born October 15, 1953 in Denver, Colorado to Cecil Lester Carter and JoAnn Carol Gilbert. She was raised by her father and step mother, Janice Hall Carter.  After years of battling various health issues caused by chronic asthma and thyroid cancer, Patty died on May 7, 2022.

Pat was a veteran of the United States...

Rex Allred

Rex Allred

May 6, 2022

Livestream Link https://my.gather.app/remember/rex-allred

Rex was born June 5, 1933 in Altonah, Utah to Charles Ralph Allred and Belva Burgess Allred. He was the fourth of six children. He grew up on a farm. He attended grade school through the 6th grade at Altonah. Then he went to school at Altamont, Utah for the 7th through 12th grades. After high school...

Drucilla "Druce" Smith

Drucilla "Druce" Smith

May 4, 2022

Drucilla Mitchell Smith, 84, of Vernal Utah, passed away May 4,2022 in Logan, Utah at the Sunshine Terrace Care Facility.

Drue was born in Upalco, Utah, to Clyde and Agnes Marett Mitchell on May 22, 1937.  She attended High School at Clearfield High.  She met and married Donald Mack Seastrom in 1954. She divorced later in 1969. She met Ray...

Sharen Jean Bergstrom

Sharen Jean Bergstrom

May 3, 2022

Live Stream Link https://my.gather.app/remember/sharen-bergstrom

Sharen Jean (Glenhill) Bergstrom born August 3, 1942 to Viva Orissa Gledhill and Thomas Ivo Gledhill.

She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend of many, left us on May 3, 2022. She married the love of her life Neil Bergstrom on June 3, 1960, married 62 years.

She loved her family very...

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