Obituaries

Sep 6, 2021

Sep 5, 2021

It is with broken hearts that we announce the sudden and tragic passing of our beloved son, brother, and friend, Bailey Judd Burgess.  We lost Bailey on the night of September 5, 2021. He had been battling personal struggles and depression for some time and decided that his pain was too much to bear. To the complete shock of all...

Sep 5, 2021

            Kim Brenner Riley, age 81, died Sunday September 5th, 2021 of Covid complications at his home in St. George, Utah. Kim was born January 14, 1940 in Canton, Ohio, son of Carl Junior Bair and Mae June Pollock. Kim married Caroll Louise Shreeve January 14, 2017 in Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church in St. George.

            Kim...

Sep 5, 2021

Gaydon Leon Mortensen 86 years old. Passed away peacefully from his home on September 5, 2021, surrounded by his wife and children. Born June 23, 1935, in Emery, Utah, to Niels Clifford and Melva Christiansen Mortensen. He married the love of his life Elva Myers on July 7, 1953, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later solemnized in the Salt Lake...

Sep 4, 2021

Connie Jill Begay (Klingonsmith), 67, passed away on September 4, 2021 surrounded by her family. She was born on September 30, 1953 in Cedar City Utah to Edyth Whitney and Phillip Klingonsmith.

Jill grew up in Pintura Utah on her family farm. She loved helping her mom in the garden and helping her siblings with the daily chores. During her...

Sep 3, 2021

Graveside services scheduled for Wednesday September 8th, 2021 at 10:00 am in the Tonaquint Cemetery in St. George, Utah.

Sep 1, 2021

September 1, 2021, our beautiful mom, Louise (Lu) Briggs was reunited in heaven with our dad, Jim, her sweetheart of 66 years. She was 92 years young

Lu loved having visitors, sharing a meal, birds, flowers, the USA, black licorice, chocolate, ice cream, chocolate ice cream, traveling the world, pictures, pie, pie with ice cream, blueberries, blueberries with ice cream,...

Aug 31, 2021

Darrell Howard Egbert, 96, career Air Force officer and noted local author, peacefully passed away August 31st, 2021. He was born August 23rd, 1925, in Layton Utah to Howard Burton Egbert and Ella Mae Lewis.

Darrell Egbert learned to read and write in a three-room schoolhouse, located in a mining town in the Oquirrah Mountains of Utah. He studied more...

Aug 29, 2021

Our mother, Joanne (Iverson) Christy, left this world peacefully on Sunday, August 29th, 2021 surrounded by her family in Pine Valley, Washington, Utah.

Joanne was born on August 30th, 1955, to Lawrence and Ruby Claudine Meecham Iverson in St. George, Utah. She was blessed to be part of a kind and loving family with parents and siblings who exemplified what...

Aug 24, 2021

Delmar D. Vail, 91, passed away on Tuesday, 24 August 2021 with family by his side. Delmar was born 02 September 1929 in Pocatello, Idaho, to Iona and Elvin Vail. On 27 December 1950, Delmar married his sweetheart Shirley Mae Lloyd in Pocatello.

Delmar graduated from Pocatello High School in 1948, Idaho State College in 1951, and in 1953 University...

Aug 23, 2021

Eliza Hattie Barlow was born the 11th child of 12 children; 6 boys and 6 girls. She was the baby girl; named after her Great Grandmother Eliza Hattie Strong. Hattie was born August 17, 1988 in St. George, Utah to Steven Balmforth and Viginia Kaylene Darger Barlow. She had just passed her 33rd birthday.

She married Samuel Woodruff Jessop on June 26,...

Aug 22, 2021

On Sunday, August 22, 2021, Herman Dale Reynolds passed away in St. George, Utah at the age of 88. Born September 3, 1932, to Wade and Erma Reynolds in Carrollton, Illinois, he spent his school years in Eldred and Carrollton. After graduation he served in the U.S. Army and Air Force from 1952-1959. In 1958, he met the love of...

Aug 19, 2021

Longtime Soldotna, Alaska resident Dallas Ray Jones passed away due to complications from Covid August 19, 2021 in St. George, Utah at age 77. Funeral Services will be held at Buena Vista Stake Center, 860 North Fairway Drive, Washington, Utah 84780. A viewing will be held from 9am-10:45am Friday, August 27, 2021, with his funeral to begin at 11am. Burial...

Aug 19, 2021

From her first breath, the life of Sirpa Paulikki Ylisaari Gubler was a miracle. Born in Northern Finland near the Arctic Circle in a town called Rovaniemi, she came into the world with Finnish sisu (which means: extraordinary determination and courage in the face of repeating extreme adversity). She kept her sisu throughout her mortal life, which began on September...

Aug 15, 2021

Aug 14, 2021

Kristine Walker Bennett, 69, passed away August 14th, 2021. She was born at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in California December 20, 1951. She was the third child of Franklin Earl Walker and Barbara Robinson Walker. Her father was a captain in the US Navy and due to his career, she lived in Massachusetts, Maryland, and California growing up.

Kristine attended Canyon...

Aug 13, 2021

W LARRY NELSON BORN 7/13/39 AS WAYNE LAWRENCE NELSON JR, BERWYN, ILLINOIS

HE DIED 8/13/21 AT HIS HOME IN ST. GEORGE, UTAH. HE GRADUATED 1957 FROM BEATRICE, NE HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE WAS RAISED AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NE IN 1962 WITH A BS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING WIFE AND PARTNER OF 16 YEARS,...

Aug 10, 2021

Aug 9, 2021

Gabrielle Iverson returned to her Heavenly Father on August 9, 2021, at the young age of 20.  Gabrielle is the daughter of Victor and Audrey Johnson Iverson of La Verkin, Utah.  She was born in Flagstaff, Arizona on January 19, 2001.  She grew up in Hurricane and La Verkin.  She loved running, exercise, her friends and was a beautiful pianist. ...

Aug 6, 2021

Vird J. Heath passed away August 6, 2021 surrounded by his family.

Vird was born September 27, 1925 in Torrey, Utah to Ralph and Cora Mae Durfee Heath. He spent his early years shearing sheep in the mountains of Wyoming with his brothers. He would go fishing and hunting after work to supply his family with meat.

Vird married Jean...