Obituaries
Delta, Utah Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Delta and Millard County, Utah area
Roy Oliver Woolley
May 11, 2020
Roy Oliver Woolley, age 92, passed away at his home in Lynndyl, Utah on Monday, May 11, 2020. How do you measure the worth of a life... in days, hours and minutes? For my dad, Roy Oliver Woolley, he measured his life by his sweetheart, our mother, Evelyn Minnie Pratt, eight wonderful children, 39 beautiful grandchildren, 139 cherished great-grandchildren,...
Joseph Pedro Viveiros
Apr 20, 2020
Pastor Joseph Pedro Viveiros, loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, pastor, affectionately known to many as Papa Joe, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Monday, April 20, 2020. He was 80 years of age.
Joe was the fourth child in a family of 6 born to Jose Pedro Viveiros and Maria de Luz Carvalho...
Donald Ray Conk
Apr 14, 2020
Donald Ray Conk, age 90 passed away peacefully in his sleep in Nephi, Utah on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. He was born May 20, 1929 to Henry Pervine Conk and Rosa Vilate (Cardon) Conk in Delta, Utah. In his early years, Don would help his family and friends working on local farms. He attended elementary at A.C. Nelson in...
Roy Clayton Jeffery
Apr 11, 2020
Roy Clayton Jeffery, age 85, beloved Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather and friend passed away in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 11,2020 after a valiant fight with Parkinson’s disease. He was born in Delta, Utah on January 13,1935 to Wallace Truman and Mary Roper Jeffery, the fourth of seven children. Clayton grew up in a loving family on...
Ethel Stewart Boyden
Apr 3, 2020
Ethel Stewart Boyden, age 86, passed away on Friday, April 3, 2020 in Delta, Utah. She was born on September 15, 1933 in Delta to Glen Courtland and Herma Nielson Stewart.
Ethel served her community working at the Bookmobile and the City Library for 25 years. She was considered the bookmark lady, as she gifted so many...
Douglas Spencer Smith
Apr 1, 2020
Douglas Spencer Smith, age 52, of Garland, Utah passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Ogden, Utah. Doug was born to Jerry Lloyd and Mary Jean Beverage Smith on November 27, 1967 in Boise, Idaho. Doug loved animals. Whenever he befriended a stray, he would take it home and try to keep it, much to his parents’...
Cheryl Alana Ward Jones
Mar 21, 2020
Cheryl Alana Ward Jones, age 60, beloved wife, mother, sister, friend, grandma, and aunt left this world peacefully on Saturday, March 21, 2020 in Delta, Utah to start her new journey. She was born in Pasadena, California on June 3, 1959 to Allen Vern and Jean Bills Ward. She came into this world as her daddy’s sweetheart, in a...
Rae Reid Petersen
Mar 18, 2020
Rae Reid Petersen, age 94, passed away on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 in Deer Lodge, Montana. She was born on April 26, 1925 in Provo, Utah, the younger of the two daughters of Wallace Reginald and Nora Pratt Reid. She grew up in Culver City, California. Being in the Los Angeles area she made many trips as a young...
Karen Kaye Murray Fowles
Mar 15, 2020
Karen Kaye Murray Fowles, age 79, passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 15, 2020 in Delta, Utah. She was born on September 16, 1940 to Karl Elmer and Eleanor Wilcox Murray. She grew up on the family farm in Abraham with her two sisters, Marilyn and Joan. She graduated from Delta High School and soon after on August 7,...
Ellis Junior Kinsey
Mar 13, 2020
Ellis Junior Kinsey passed away at age 80, on March 13, 2020 in Provo, Utah. He was born September 10, 1939 in Lehi, Utah to Ellis T. and Violet Bowman Kinsey, Ellis grew up in the Provo/Orem area. Ellis joined the US Army at the age of 17. During his service, he was stationed in Seoul Korea. While there...
Linda Lu James Bublitz
Mar 4, 2020
Linda Lu James Bublitz, age 72, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 in Delta, Utah. She was born on December 2, 1947 in Sparta, Wisconsin the youngest the four children of Ernest and Marion Lillian Hanna James. She grew up in Billings, Montana. She excelled as a cheerleader during high school. After graduating she moved to New York...
Dorthella Glover Spencer
Mar 4, 2020
Our beautiful mother, Dorothy “Dot” Glover Spencer, age 96, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. She was born on September 30, 1923 in Kanab, Utah to John Stanley and Clarissa Amy Heaton Glover. She was the youngest of four daughters and loved her three sisters dearly. She grew up in Alton,...
John David Pedersen
Mar 4, 2020
John David Pedersen, age 50, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Delta, Utah. He was born on June 16, 1969, in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, the oldest of two sons, to David Pedersen and Linda Bown (AKA Madsen). John grew up mostly in Spring City, Utah. In his younger years, he enjoyed camping, listening to his parents...
Helen Jean Christensen Bell
Feb 24, 2020
Helen Jean Christensen Bell, age 86, peacefully passed away Monday, February 24, 2020 in Delta, Utah. She was born on June 17, 1933 in Oasis, Utah to Norvel John and Ella Bishop Christensen. She was the youngest of three children having a sister, Vera, and brother, Jim. Helen enjoyed growing up on the farm with all of her pets....
Brady Craig Johnson
Feb 23, 2020
Brady Craig Johnson, age 34, died Sunday, February 23, 2020 in a fatal truck rollover accident 4 miles west of Hinckley, Utah. Beloved son of Alan and Paula Bringhurst Johnson, born on September 9, 1985 in Gunnison, Utah, the third of four sons.
Brady was always such a sweet man. When he was a little boy, people...
Dee Ray Hollingshead
Feb 16, 2020
Dee Ray Hollingshead, age 78, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, February 16, 2020 in Delta, Utah. Born on December 11, 1941, in Beaver, Utah, the fourth of six children, to Arshel Roberts and Roma Mae Robison Hollingshead. Growing up in Beaver he took an interest in electronics at a very young age. Teaching himself, he set up a radio...
Gerald Denis Shoup
Feb 13, 2020
Gerald Denis Shoup, age 88, peacefully passed away on Thursday, February 13, 2020 in Delta, Utah surrounded by his family. He was born on December 19, 1931, in Delta, Colorado to Edward Carl and Wilma Columbine Hollcraft Shoup. He and his sister grew up in many towns in the western United States as his father’s job kept the family...
Colleen Densley Banks
Feb 7, 2020
Colleen Densley Banks, age 61, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, February 7, 2020 in Payson, Utah. She was born on October 31, 1958, the daughter of Lawrence Lynn and Margaret Anne Sheriff Densley, in Pamona, California.
After living in California for a short time her family returned to Utah, spending a few years in Ogden, then settling...
Loree Kay Sampson Pace
Feb 2, 2020
Loree Kay Sampson Pace age 64, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on Sunday, February 2, 2020 after a courageous and valiant fight with stupid cancer for the second time. Loree was an amazing mother, wife, grandma, sister and friend. Loree was born June 1, 1955 and adopted by James & Lucile Black Sampson in Salt...
Mary Kae Henrie Nielson
Jan 31, 2020
Mary Kae Henrie Nielson, age 85, left this earth on January 31, 2020. She passed peacefully, after a short illness, surrounded by family. Kae was born on December 4, 1934 in Delta, Utah to Marion Cutler and Mary Lyman Henrie. They lived in Sutherland and Kae attended Delta High School where she met her eternal companion Merrill G. Nielson....


