Obituaries
Delta, Utah Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Delta and Millard County, Utah area
Blaine F Theobald
Dec 27, 2020
Blaine F. Theobald, a longtime resident of Hinckley, Utah, passed away peacefully at the age of 94 on Sunday, December 27, 2020. Blaine was born in Hinckley, Utah on January 18, 1926 to Lafayette and Ethel Webb Theobald. Blaine was 4 pounds when he was born on a cold January morning. Since he was so small, to keep him...
Harry Lavern Bell
Dec 24, 2020
Harry LaVern Bell, age 95, passed away Thursday, December 24, 2020 at his home in Hinckley, Utah. He was born on July 27, 1925 in Ladysmith, Wisconsin to Henry Clay and Helen Borwig Bell. He was the oldest of four children. When Harry was a year old, the family moved to Chatham, Illinois and lived in the Bell family...
Scott Lyle Wilcken
Dec 23, 2020
Scott Lyle Wilcken, age 62, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, December 23, 2020 in Delta, Utah. He was born on March 4, 1958 in Cedar City, Utah, the youngest of the five children of Dee Humphries and Cleone Wilcox Wilcken. Scott grew up in Enoch, Utah. He graduated from Cedar City High School. He served an LDS Mission in...
Sherril Waun Tolbert
Dec 23, 2020
Sherril Waun Tolbert passed away at his home Wednesday, December 23, 2020, at age 82. Sherril was born February 22, 1938, in Delta, Utah, to Floyd and Margaret Cleone Wilcox Tolbert. He was the second of five children. He grew up in Abraham and developed an early love for the west desert, where he spent time with his dad,...
Toni Mary Desorcy Beers Perez
Dec 10, 2020
“Toni” Antoinette Mary DeSorcy Beers Perez, age 63, passed away Thursday, December 10, 2020 in Sutherland, Utah. Toni was born on January 7, 1957 in Oyen, Alberta, Canada to Arthur Joseph and Helen Sibulak DeSorcy. She was the middle of five children, siblings: sister, Darlene, and brothers, Rennie, Art and Bill. In 1959, Toni’s family moved to the United...
Hayden Craig Smith
Dec 8, 2020
Hayden Craig Smith, 26, of St. George, Utah, passed away on December 8, 2020. He was born in Delta, Utah, on May 15, 1994. Hayden was raised in Diamond Valley, Utah where he spent time finding and creating adventures in the surrounding hills with his siblings and friends. Hayden loved, and was fascinated by, all kinds of critters —...
Delano "Dee" Church
Dec 2, 2020
Delano “Dee” Church, age 87, passed away on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in Delta, Utah. Dee was born on March 11, 1933, in Delta, Utah; the sixth of the eight children born to George David and Alice Lorraine Cahoon Church. After growing up in Delta, his job took him to Tooele, where he met the love of his life,...
Gladys Winn Banks
Nov 27, 2020
Gladys Winn Banks, age 91, passed away peacefully on November 27, 2020 in South Jordan, Utah. Gladys was born on May 29, 1929, in Delta, Utah, to James Alma and Gladys DeLong Banks. Gladys grew up in Lynndyl, Utah and graduated from Delta High School. She continued her education at the BAC in Cedar City, Brigham Young University, and...
Connie Jeanne Ingram Best
Nov 24, 2020
Connie Jeanne Ingram Best, age 74, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 in Provo, Utah. She was born on May 6, 1946 in Payson, Utah to Blaine Mortensen and Iris Elizabeth Kay Ingram. Connie grew up in Nephi, until age 11 when she went to live with her grandparents on their farm in Mona. She graduated from Juab...
Michael E Brown
Nov 23, 2020
Michael E Brown passed away on Monday, November 23, 2020 at the Millard County Care Center in Delta, Utah at age 51. Mike is proof that miracles do happen. He was born on August 26, 1969 to Ray E. and Beth Maurine Moody Brown in Delta, Utah. Mike was born with a rare birth defect called Arthrogryposis (resulting in...
Janet Sanford Stanworth
Nov 7, 2020
Janet Sanford Stanworth, age 90, passed away on Saturday, November 7, 2020 in Fillmore, Utah. Janet was born on August 3, 1930 in Delta, Utah; the eldest of the 4 children born to Hyrum Elbert and Florice May Wixom Sanford. She grew up in Delta and graduated from Delta High School in1948, where she participated in the student government....
James "Jim" David Edwards
Nov 5, 2020
James “Jim” David Edwards, our loving husband, dad, and grandpa, passed away peacefully at the age of 79 surrounded by his family, on Thursday, November 5, 2020 in his home in Delta, Utah. It was one day short of his 61st wedding anniversary to his sweetheart, Jeanne. His passing came after battling stomach cancer for 5 months. Dad fought...
Helen Sibulak Desorcy
Oct 29, 2020
Helen Sibulak DeSorcy, age 91, passed away on Thursday, October 29, 2020 in Sutherland, Utah. Helen was born on July 11, 1929 in Evansburg, Alberta, Canada to Nicholas and Mary Karostyl Sibulak. She was the middle child, with two brothers. She grew up and went to school in the coal mining towns of Nacmine and Drumheller, Alberta. Her parents...
James Dee Manis
Oct 20, 2020
James Dee Manis, age 37, of Delta, died due to injuries suffered in an auto accident on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 near Leamington, Utah. Dee was born on March 16, 1983 in Delta, Utah the middle child of five born to Phillip Walter and Eathel Vickie Church Manis. He grew up in Delta and attended area schools. Growing up...
Paul James Stephenson
Oct 19, 2020
Paul James Stephenson, age 83, of Delta, died of natural causes on Monday, October 19, 2020, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Paul was born December 27, 1936 in Boise, Idaho, to Kenneth Bennett and Lillian Cutler Stephenson. The third of six children, he was raised primarily in Nampa, Idaho. He graduated from Nampa High School before serving as a missionary...
Vernon Dale Bliss
Oct 6, 2020
Vernon Dale Bliss, age 87 passed away on October 6, 2020 in Delta, Utah. Dale was born March 30, 1933 in Hinckley, Utah to Oren Vernon and Alice Hardy Bliss. He was the fifth of seven children. He married Margaret Marlene Ekins in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on August 20, 1952.
Dale spent almost his entire...
Joann Heiner Morris
Sep 30, 2020
JoAnn Heiner Morris was born July 4, 1933 in Ogden, Utah to Orson Carter Heiner and Dorothea Ford Heiner. She died Wednesday, September 30, 2020 in Delta, Utah after a short illness. JoAnn's father died when she was one year old while living in New Mexico. Her mother moved with JoAnn and her older brother, LaMar, to Centerville, Utah...
Mitchell V Myers
Sep 26, 2020
Mitchell V Myers passed away peacefully in his home in Delta, Utah on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at the age of 77. Mitch was born in Cedar City, Utah on December 5, 1942 to Vendon Myers and Florence LoRayne Puffer Myers. Mitch is the oldest of five children. His siblings include: Joyce Wiseman, Ralph Myers, JoAnn Myers (who passed...
Brandon Lee Larue
Sep 23, 2020
Brandon Lee LaRue, age 36, passed away on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 surrounded by his family in Delta, Utah. Brandon was born June 29, 1984 in Delta, Utah, the eldest of the 2 children of Roger Everette and Kathy Dawn Poulsen LaRue. He attended Delta community school s and Delta High School where he participated in football. He later...
James Wesley Duncan
Sep 21, 2020
James Wesley Duncan, age 79, passed away on Monday, September 21, 2020 in Provo, Utah. Wes was born June 23, 1941 in Murray, Utah, the middle of the 3 sons born to Wilgus B and Delsa Irene Young Duncan. He grew up in Lindon, Utah and graduated from Pleasant Grove High School. After graduation he enlisted and served honorably...