Obituaries
Twila Cochran
Apr 30, 2014
Twila Rae Cochran was born April 7, 1931 in Lapoint, Utah, the first of seven children, to Vera Christina Lee and Raymond Miles Bigelow. She grew up enjoying swimming in the canal, riding Old Nig, and riding her new bicycle. The dreaded experience of her youth was herding the turkeys and keeping them out of the greasewood which was a...
Billy Don Harp
Apr 23, 2014
Billy Don Bill Harp, age 77, of Meeker, Colorado, passed away at the Grand Junction VA Medical Center on April 23, 2014. He was born November 10, 1936 in Rifle, Colorado to Harry and Florence Parker Harp. He was the youngest of five children. He attended Rio Blanco High School and graduated in 1955. He enlisted in the US Army...
Lorna Condon
Apr 21, 2014
Lorna Condon, age 100, Longtime Vernal resident passed away April 21, 2014 in Vernal, Utah. She was born in Vernal on March 29, 1914 to Ezra and Alice Hacking Merkley. Lorna attended Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1931 to 1935, where she earned a degree in Home Economics with an emphasis on nutrition. She also met her husband to be...
Gail Chiyoka Caldwell
Apr 21, 2014
Gail Chiyoko Yoshida Caldwell, age 84, passed away April 21, 2014 at the Walbridge Wing in Meeker, Colorado. She was the second daughter to Hamakichi and Hana Yoshida in Fujisawa Takazagun, Japan. Chiyoko married the love of her life Victor D. Caldwell on January 9, 1953 in Japan, while Vic was serving in the Korean War. In November 1953, Vic...
Boyd Bowen
Apr 20, 2014
Boyd Orr Bowden, formulary of the Uintah Basin, age 87, passed away April 23, 2014 in California. He was born September 9, 1927 to John Frank and Anna Marie Bowden. He worked as a Mill worker for Lumber Production Company. Burial will be in the Myton Cemetery, services have been entrusted to the care of the Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
Dave Mecham
Apr 19, 2014
Dave B. Mecham, 34, of Williston, North Dakota, formerly of Vernal, Utah, passed away Saturday night, April 19, 2014, the result of a motorcycle accident west of Williston. Dave B. Mecham was born July 29, 1979, to Darrell and Ann (Gilbert) Mecham in Roosevelt, Utah. He was raised and educated there graduating in 1997 from Union High School. On December...
Raymond A. Gilley
Apr 14, 2014
Our father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend Raymond Arthur Gilley passed away April 14, 2014. Born in Salt Lake City on October 28, 1937 to Ernest Newton Gilley and Alice Ann Green, Ray was the second of 5 children. Ray attended West High School and was active in the marching band and later played in the Post Office marching band....
Alvin Zufelt
Apr 6, 2014
Alvin J. Zufelt, 83, died of Kidney failure on April 6, 2014 at the Uintah Care Center in Vernal, Utah. He was born in Duchesne, Utah on January 16, 1931, and grew up in Heber City, Utah. Alvin married Betty Ann Clary in 1973. She died in 2003. He worked in the restaurant business most of his life. He loved...
Jean Knuckles
Apr 1, 2014
Jean Knuckles, age 71, passed away on April 1, 2014 in Vernal. She was born December 7, 1942 in Kaysville, Utah to Melvin and Vesta Nielsen Atwood. She enjoyed fishing, camping, spending time in the mountains and her children and grandchildren. She is survived by her two daughters, Carrie Jean Gardner and Tracy Lee Faccentti; her son Jesse Lee Straight...
Mae Kump Warburton
Mar 30, 2014
Mae Kump Warburton was born in Chester, Sanpete County Utah and at the age of six weeks moved to Lapoint, Utah where she lived for the next 94 years. She married her sweetheart, Earl L. Warburton on March 5, 1934. Solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple December 18, 1964. They made a good life together on the family homestead in...
Carma Peterson
Mar 26, 2014
Carma Peterson of Rangely Colorado, age 91 passed away while staying in Rangely, CO, near her daughter. She was born in Malad, Idaho to James Heber Yearsley and Rosa Janet Howell Yearsley on September 19, 1922. She lived most of her life in Ola, Idaho where she was taken for Funeral and Burial. Funeral services were held on Saturday, March...
Gary J. Rowley
Mar 20, 2014
Gary J. Rowley, 74 died March 20, 2014 at the Uintah care center in Vernal. He was born June 8, 1939 in Vernal, Utah to Acel DeForest and Laura Smuin Rowley, He married Jessie Richins August 21, 1959 their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Gary was a U.S. Government trapper and hunter since 1960. He...
Estella Jenkins Richens
Mar 13, 2014
Estella J. Richens, Age 81, Born April 26, 1932 to Parents Dee and Clara Jenkins. She passed peacefully at home on March 13th 2014. She married Lorn S. Richens on October 12th 1951 in Vernal Utah. She is the Mother of her and Lorn's two children, Ronald (Omar) Richens and Annette Richens Parslow McKee. Preceded in death were her parents,...
Ida Marie Biorn Twitchell
Mar 11, 2014
Ida Marie Biorn Twitchell slipped peacefully through Heavens door Tuesday morning, March 11, 2014. Ida was born August 22, 1937 in Ashton, Idaho to Lawrence Paul and Thelma Edginton Biorn. She grew up and spent the majority of her life in Manila, Utah. She married her high school sweetheart Burl D. Twitchell, October 7, 1952 in Vernal, Utah. Their marriage...
Arthur Stone
Mar 11, 2014
Arthur Pringle Stone, age 96, passed away 11 March 2014 in Roosevelt, Utah. He had lived most of his life in Vernal. He was born 6 March 1918 in Winterquarters, Utah to Fredrick James and Jennie Pringle Stone. He married Eunice Caldwell in Duchesne, Utah and was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple; she preceded him in death...
Bart Leon Vernon
Mar 7, 2014
Bart Leon Vernon age, 47, died March 7, 2014 in Layton, Utah. He was born December 27, 1966 to Charles and Jane Miles Vernon in Ogden, Bart graduated in 1985 from Layton High school and married Shelly Roylance August of 1988 they later divorced, he married Amy Dickson June 1993. He worked as a welder and fabricator for Peterson Inc.,...
Billy Jean Dossey White
Feb 28, 2014
Billy Jean White (Gustafson), age 79 of Vernal, Utah, formally of Farmington, New Mexico, passed away at home on Friday, February 28, 2014, in Vernal, with her loved ones by her side. She was born February 5, 1935, in Gatesville, Texas on Corel Creek underneath a mulberry bush, to William and Sybil Dossey. At the age of 9 years old...
Golda Isabell Massey Carroll
Feb 25, 2014
Golda Isabell Massey Carroll was born in Dry Fork on December 3, 1910, to George Ova and Elizabeth Maud Orgill Massey. She passed away peacefully, February 25th at the age of 103. She lived her entire life in Vernal and was awarded the oldest continuous resident of the Ashley Valley by Vernal City. The home in which she grew up,...
Kathleen Boren Finlinson
Feb 25, 2014
Kathleen Boren Stubbs Finlinson, 64, passed away February 25, 2014 at her home in vernal with loving family by her side. She was born November 13, 1949 in Vernal a daughter of Boyd L Boren and Ellen Wilkins Boren. She married David Stubbs and was later divorced. She married her sweetheart, Rex Finlinson on November 6, 1997. Kathy was a...
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