Obituaries
JaeLee Kay-Ann Holmes
Aug 5, 2024
Memorial Services will be Tuesday August 13, 2024 at the Blackburn Vernal Mortuary
Infant Daughter of Jared and Brittni Francom Holmes
Kenneth Wayne Tripp
Aug 4, 2024
Kenneth Wayne Tripp died peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on August 4th, 2024. He was born January 23, 1940, in Keota Oklahoma to Orvil Tripp and Alta Jessie Coy. He was the oldest of 7 children. Later his family moved to Tulare California, where he was raised. Ken married Beverly Lynn McLain on Dec. 8, 1957, and was...
Gary Barney
Aug 2, 2024
Gary Arthur Barney
September 13, 1935 – August 2, 2024
Gary passed peacefully surrounded by family on Aug. 2, 2024. He was born September 13, 1935 in Mt. Emmons, Duchesne UT. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gary served in the United States Army. Gary married Rae Barney on July 2, 1979.
He was an incredible...
Ellis Tait
Jul 30, 2024
Ellis Lavoye Tait Obituary/Eulogy
Our dad, Ellis Lavoye Tait, age 88, died on July 30, 2024 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born on July 16, 1936 to William Carson and Lavenia Healey Tait.
Dad served 2 deployments in the US Army. He was very proud of his time of being in the service.
Dad married our mom, Alice Louise...
Bobby Lee Richardson
Jul 30, 2024
Bobby Lee Richardson took his finale ride July 30, 2024. He was born September 22, 1939 to Archie and Rose Richardson. Bob was known as husband, brother, grandfather and most importantly dad. He married the love of his life and partner in crime Marsha, on October 5, 1973.
Bob was born and raised here in Vernal. He grew up out in...
Ryan L Oaks
Jul 28, 2024
Ryan Lee Oaks, age 50, of Vernal Utah, passed away on July 28, 2024. Ryan was born in Vernal Utah, July 4, 1974 to Jeffery M. Oaks and Ramona Gerrard Barnes.
Ryan loved hunting, mudding, camping, arrowhead hunting, gold-panning, and listening to music. Ryan loved spending time with his sons most of all.
Ryan was also a veteran of the Marine Corps.
Ryan...
Tamara Curfew Morrill Peltier
Jul 26, 2024
Tamara Curfew Morrill Peltier, of Jensen, Utah passed on 26 July 2024 at her home surrounded by family. Tamara was born in Jensen at her grandmother Sarah’s home on 11 May 1940. She was born into a large, active family on both her mother’s and father’s side. Most of her growing-up years were in Jensen on a ranch. She learned...
Robert Leroy Casper
Jul 24, 2024
Robert Leroy Casper
Robert Leroy Casper, age 86, of Dinosaur, Colorado, passed away July 27, 2024 after a short illness , in Murray Utah at the Intermountain Health Center.
He was born December 11, 1937 in Diller NE, He was the son of Roy and Pauline Casper. He was raised in Diller and Lincoln NE. ROBERT ( Bob) started working at a...
Lynn Charles Smuin
Jul 22, 2024
Lynn Charles Smuin
09/02/1941 – 07/22/2024
Lynn was born on September 2, 1941 in Salt Lake City Utah to Kenneth and Thelma Beynon Smuin. He passed away on July 22, 2024 from a broken heart.
He moved to Vernal around the age of four and lived in Frog Town. He was a very adventurous boy and loved playing sports. He played football, basketball,...
Allen Dean Voorhies Jr.
Jul 21, 2024
Allen Dean Voorhies Jr., age 85, passed away peacefully at home with family, in Yuma, AZ, on Sunday July 21, 2024. Allen was born on June 24, 1939, to Allen Dean Voorhies and Vivian LaDell Baucum Voorhies. Allen grew up in Vernal, UT and graduated from Uintah High School. After attending Weber State University, he married Marva Adelia Murray of...
Kim Joseph Spendlove
Jul 15, 2024
Kim Joseph Spendlove passed away July 15, 2024 in his home surrounded by family. He was born August 28, 1947 to Dr. Ray Spendlove and Helen Johnson in Vernal, UT.
Kim Graduated from BYU with a degree in Psychology and served in the Army.
He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Kim was a well head specialist...
Doreen Reynolds Hunting
Jul 11, 2024
Marjorie Doreen Reynolds Hunting, our beloved Mother, Sister, Aunt, and Grandmother went home to her Heavenly Father, her beloved husband, and other loved ones on July 11, 2024, at the age of eighty-six.
Doreen was born on November 18, 1937, on the river in Jensen, Utah to Floy Otis Reynolds and Hilda Merkley Reynolds. She grew up in Jensen and often...
Betty Fletcher
Jun 27, 2024
Betty Louise Crum was born November 11, 1940 in Natchez, Mississippi and went to be with her Heavenly Father on June 27th,2024 in Vernal, Utah. She was born to Mildred and Henry Crum and was the second born out of eleven children. She married Neal Fletcher in 1959 in Ferriday, Louisiana and started her own large family, having a total...
Jeremy Crozier
Jun 26, 2024
On June 25, 2024, Jeremy Thomas Crozier returned to God‘s love. Jeremy was born February 1, 1977 in Helena, Montana to Michael Dale and Barbara Jean Crozier. Jeremy spent his childhood in Neola Utah surrounded by family and lifelong friends. He had a heart of gold, a soul for mischief and a mind for adventure. He was forever chasing the...
Danny Scott Jackson
Jun 26, 2024
Danny Scott Jackson, age 64, of Rangely, CO, died peacefully on June 26, 2024 at his home surrounded by family.
He was born November 1st, 1959 in Frankfurt, Germany. He was the third of five boys born to Clarence Edwin and Adell LaVonne Morris Jackson. He spent a lot of time in both Rangely and Durango growing up. He graduated from...
Boyd Jay Davis
Jun 22, 2024
Boyd J Davis 87, of Scenic, Az. Formally of Vernal, Utah passed away June 22, 2024 in Mesquite Nv .He was born April 12, 1937 in Vernal Utah to Harold A. and Charlotte Greenhow Davis. Boyd attended schools and graduated from Uintah High School.
Worked for American Gillsonite after high school for 15 years before working for Dowell /Slumberger another 25...
Gordon Wayne Sorensen
Jun 15, 2024
Gordon "Gordy" Wayne Sorensen
Born: October 22, 1948 in Salt Lake City, Utah
Died: June 15, 2024 in Vernal, Utah
Wife: Judith Anne Jensen
Parents: Wayne E Sorensen and Myra Daines
Sister: Pepper Merrill
Children: Melissa & Gary Jensen, Michelle Sorensen, and David & Charlotte Jensen
Grandchildren: Madelinne, Matthew, Elisabeth, Stewart, and Brigham
Gordy grew up on a farm in Richfield, Utah. He is a member of the...
Dorothy "Elaine" Nash
Jun 12, 2024
Dorothy (Elaine) Nash, 82, passed away peacefully on June 12, 2024 in Mapleton, Utah surrounded by her family.
She was born on July 23, 1941, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Elbert Joseph and Hillis Helene Hill Steinaker.
Elaine graduated from Manila High School in 1959. She was a cheerleader and involved in 4-H.
Elaine married Gustave Rex Lund in 1959. Together they...
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