Obituaries
Delta, Utah Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Delta and Millard County, Utah area
Daniel Leon Jackson
Dec 6, 2017
Daniel Leon Jackson, age 73, passed away on December 6, 2017 in Provo, Utah. He was born on March 23, 1944 in Farmington, New Mexico to Daniel East and Myrtle Meriam Madaris Jackson. He was adopted by Charles Stephen Jackson, along with his sister and brother, shortly after his mother and Charles were married. He married Janice Petersen in...
Dwight Craig Alldredge
Dec 4, 2017
Dwight Craig Alldredge, age 73, passed away on December 4, 2017 in the Bennion Veterans Home in Payson, Utah, where he was surrounded by many that loved and served him. Dwight was born in Delta, Utah on January 18, 1944 to Adrian Lavelle Alldredge and Twila Steele Alldredge. Born into a home with 9 children, his life was full...
Carma Ashby Swensen
Dec 4, 2017
Carma Ashby Swensen, age 82, passed away on Monday, December 4, 2017 at her home in Hinckley, Utah. She was born in Murray, Utah on March 25, 1935 to Charles Prosser and Elenor Lucile Jensen Ashby. She grew up in Sandy. Later moved to Delta, Utah and graduated from Delta High School, then attended BYU. She married the love...
Noelia Orona
Dec 1, 2017
Noelia Orona Peña, age 15, passed away Friday, December 1, 2017 after a tragic car accident in Hinckley, Utah. She was born March 9, 2002 in Phoenix, Arizona to Noe Orona Bojorquez and Susana Rebeca Peña Enriquez Orona. She grew up as the youngest with her four brothers. She kept up with them with a similar adventurous spirit, and...
Robert C Jones
Nov 26, 2017
Robert “Bob” C Jones, age 88, returned to the arms of His Heavenly Father, his loving wife, and parents on Sunday, November 26, 2017 in Delta, Utah. He was born June 13, 1929 at his home in Sutherland, Utah to Calvin Hall Jones and Millie Dorthea Christensen Jones. He was the 6th of 8 children. Three of them, including...
Diana Dee Hansen
Nov 23, 2017
Diana Dee Hansen, age 56, passed away on “Thanksgiving”, Thursday, November 23, 2017 in Delta, Utah. She was born on “Halloween”, October 31, 1961 in Payson, Utah the second of the 5 children of Kenneth Dee and Cleo Joyce Erickson Hansen. Diana carried the challenge of a mental handicap, but she never left it dampen her effusive spirit, her...
Karl Hale Jeffery
Nov 22, 2017
Karl Hale Jeffery, age 83, passed away on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 in Delta, Utah surrounded by his loving wife and children. He was born in Delta, Utah on April 10, 1934, the fifth of eight children to Edgar Wallace Jeffery and Nancy Ethel Hale Jeffery. In 1946, when he was 12 years old, his parents were in a...
Tygh John Backer
Nov 17, 2017
Tygh John Backer, age 31, passed away Friday, November 17, 2017 in Delta, Utah in a tragic hunting accident. Ty was born on February 20, 1986 in Sacramento, California. His parents, Martin Spencer and Renee Rowlette Backer welcomed him to their family.
Ty grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and attended Skyline High School. He also...
Bud Robert Best
Nov 1, 2017
Bud Robert Best, age 76, passed away on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 in the Delta Community Hospital surrounded by his wife of 49 years and their three children. He was born in on February 9, 1941 in Nephi, Utah to Thomas Ell and Annie Irene Lovell Best. He grew up on the family farm in Leamington, Utah and graduated...
Helen Webb Watson
Oct 10, 2017
Helen Webb Watson, age 91, passed away on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 in Delta, Utah. She was born on September 14, 1926 in Delta, Utah the 9th of the 10 children of Walter Franklin and Rose Ellen Herman Webb. She grew up in Hinckley helping on the family farm. When she was very young she suffered from Scarlet Fever...
Lisa Lyman Nielson
Oct 6, 2017
Lisa Lyman Nielson passed away at her home on Friday, October 6, 2017 from an aggressive form of cancer. She was born November 4, 1958 in Rexburg, Idaho to Asael and LaDee Fikstad Lyman. She enjoyed very much being raised with five brothers. She wrote a poem about brothers that partly reads, “Life will bring unending joys but if...
Sherman Dale Little
Oct 5, 2017
Sherman Dale Little, age 88, passed away on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in Greeley, Colorado. He was born in Delta, Utah on April 17, 1929 to Sherman and Irene Lewis Little. Dale graduated from Delta High School and worked as a beekeeper before joining the US Army serving during the Korean War. During his time in the service, he...
Roger Gary Bunker
Oct 2, 2017
Roger Gary Bunker, age 44, passed away at his home in Murray, Utah on Monday, October 2, 2017 due to severe pneumonia. He was born in Delta, Utah on October 13, 1972, the eldest child of Gary Lyle and Marian Jacobson Bunker. He grew up in Delta learning to work hard by helping his father on the family farm....
Grant Allen Crane
Sep 28, 2017
Grant Allen Crane, age 89, passed away on Thursday, September 28, 2017 in Delta, Utah. He was born January 17, 1928 in Levan, Utah, the third child of Harry Abner and Maggie Amelia Mortensen Crane. As a boy he had farm chores, but enjoyed spending time with his best friend Cecil Sampson; swimming, riding horses and ice skating. At...
Eva Irene Holt Stanworth
Sep 25, 2017
Heaven gained an angel by the name of Eva Irene Holt Stanworth. She died at the ripe old age of 93 on September 25, 2017 at the Delta Community Medical Center from natural causes. She was born on September 29, 1923 in Emery, Utah to Owen Riley and Eva Johanna Nielsen Holt. Her family moved to Milford and later...
Betty Lou Dailey Crafts
Sep 19, 2017
Betty Lou Dailey Crafts, age 80, passed away on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 in Delta, Utah. She was born October 13, 1936 in Pangburn, Arkansas, the second child and eldest daughter of Anderson Young Dailey and Ruby Spain Crews Dailey. She grew up in Pangburn helping out on the family cotton farm. They later moved to California where she...
Vincent "Vince" L Cropper
Sep 14, 2017
Vincent L Cropper “Vince”, age 74, passed away on Thursday, September 14, 2017 surrounded by his loving wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was born on November 27, 1942 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Lincoln R and Nora Mae Croft Cropper. Vince married his life time companion and best friend, Kristine Lee Hardy, on June 13, 1964...
Melba Western Jacobson
Sep 9, 2017
Melba Western Jacobson, age 91, passed away on September 9, 2017 in Provo, Utah where she had been hospitalized for a recent fall. She was born February 11, 1926 in Deseret, Utah to Francis Marion and Myrtle Brunson Western. There, she grew while attending local schools until she graduated from Hinckley High School. She enjoyed associating with her dear...
Darrell Wilford Willden
Aug 27, 2017
Darrell Wilford Willden, age 78, passed away Sunday, August 27, 2017 at his home in Delta, Utah surrounded by his daughters. He was born on July 19, 1939 in Delta, Utah the fourth of the six children of George Albert “Al” & Melba McClellan Willden. He grew up in Delta helping his father in many West Desert mines. When...
Peggy Ann Carter Crane
Aug 22, 2017
Peggy Ann Carter Crane, age 85, passed away on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 in Delta, Utah. She was born on June 24, 1932 in Hinckley, Utah, the sixth of the 9 children of Byron B and Gladys Carrie Stewart Carter. Peggy attended Hinckley High School where she participated as a softball pitcher and was elected into the Rodeo Royalty....