Obituaries
Delta, Utah Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Delta and Millard County, Utah area
Kenneth Ralph Ashby
Apr 7, 2017
Kenneth Ralph Ashby, age 76, passed away on Friday, April 7, 2017 in Murray, Utah. He was born May 26, 1940 in Delta, Utah to Orran Thomas and Stella Leona Gardner Ashby. He was the third of four children: Richard, Larry, Ken and Margaret.
Ken grew up living in Phoenix, Arizona during the winter months and farming...
Rosemary Kernell Christensen
Apr 2, 2017
Rosemary Kernell Christensen, age 86, passed away Sunday, April 2, 2017 in West Jordan, Utah. She was born on April 13, 1930 in Downey, California, the third of four children to Charles Wallace and Ellen Brown Kernell. Her family moved many places around the country during her youth, settling in Hinckley, Utah. She graduated from Hinckley High School. During...
Bryan Keith Peterson
Mar 19, 2017
Bryan Keith Peterson, age 53, passed away Sunday, March 19, 2017 in Delta, Utah. He was born on September 12, 1963 in Delta, Utah, the youngest child of William Donald and Ellen Maurine Hanson Peterson. He attended Delta High School where he participated in football. After leaving Delta High, he attended Snow Technical School studying Automotive Technology. During the...
Sarah Elaine Smith Jensen
Feb 19, 2017
Our little mother, Sarah Elaine Smith Jensen, age 91, passed away on Sunday, February 19, 2017 in Delta, Utah; and went on her next great adventure, into the arms of her son, Fred Samuel, and her many family and friends who have passed on before. She was born just before the Great Depression, on February 8, 1926, to Jason...
Norma Perry Adams
Feb 17, 2017
Norma Perry Adams, age 98, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 17, 2017 in Delta, Utah. She was born on October 14, 1918 to Ethel Westenskow Perry and George Washington Perry in La Grande, Oregon. The family moved to Utah, and she grew up in the Holladay area, with one sister, Helen Perry Campbell, and one brother, Howard George...
Daryl Mahonri Cropper
Feb 14, 2017
Daryl Mahonri Cropper, age 83, passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at Summerlin Hospital, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Daryl was born on June 12, 1933 in Hinckley, Utah to Mahonri Bishop and Erma Irene Ekins Cropper. He was raised in Hinckley, and attended elementary and high school there. He attended Brigham Young University, earning Bachelors and Masters degrees geology...
Joann Peterson Wright
Feb 14, 2017
Our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and friend, JoAnn Peterson Wright, age 72, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2017 in Murray, Utah. JoAnn was born on March 9, 1944, in Lehi, the oldest of three children born to Odis Joseph and Betty Lou Jensen Peterson of Orem, Utah. JoAnn married the love of her life, Wally Ray...
Grant Wilford Dabel
Jan 14, 2017
Grant Wilford Dabel, age 94, left this life on Saturday, January 14, 2017 in Delta, Utah, to join his beloved wife, Betty. Grant was born on January 26, 1922 in Freedom, Wyoming to Wilford “Bill” Louis and Anna Kraft Dabel. He had an older sister, Gayle, and a younger sister, Rita. After his mother Anna’s death, his father married...
Wilburn Howard Curtis
Jan 13, 2017
Wilburn Howard Curtis, age 87, passed away Friday, January 13, 2017 in Delta, Utah. He was born on March 1, 1929 in Spanish Fork, Utah to John Wilburn and Cecil Ingibjorg Johnson Curtis. He grew up in the area settled by Spanish Fork’s Icelandic pioneers. He graduated from Spanish Fork High School. He served a LDS mission to the...
Carole Beth Leclair Leatham
Jan 11, 2017
Carole Beth LeClair Leatham, age 68, passed away Wednesday, January 11, 2017 in Oasis, Utah. She was born on February 12, 1948 in Marquette, Michigan to Ralph and Marjorie Sleeman LeClair. She grew up in Ishpeming, Michigan with 5 brothers and a sister. Shortley after her 26th birthday, she joined the US Navy, serving as an Aviation Electrician’s Mate...
Collins Anderson "Dutch" Fullmer
Jan 10, 2017
SLC, UT- Collins Anderson “Dutch” Fullmer, age 86, passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2017 after an eight year struggle with dementia. Collins was born on November 19, 1930 (12 minutes older than his twin brother, Kenneth) in Abraham, Utah, to Elmer Linus and Gladys Anderson Fullmer. He received his education in Delta, Utah and was preparing to...
Nelson Dean Stringer
Jan 1, 2017
Nelson Dean Stringer, age 40, passed away on January 1, 2017 in Fairplay, Colorado. He was born on April 17, 1976 in Benson, Arizona, the sixth of eight children of William Lee and Rebecca Lou Rogers Stringer. Nelson spent the first seven years of his life in Arizona and New Mexico. In 1983, Nelson’s family moved to the Delta,...
Ruth Stewart Rappleye
Dec 25, 2016
Ruth Stewart Rappleye, age 93, passed away on December 25, 2016 in Fort Mohave, Arizona. She was born on March 16, 1923 in Meadow, Utah to Neil Murdock and Alice Ada Stott Stewart. She grew up in Meadow, and graduated from Millard High School. She married Melvin Jesse Rappleye on October 12, 1941, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She lived...
Carol Dean Talbot Bishop Hunsaker
Dec 18, 2016
Carol Dean Talbot Bishop Hunsaker, age 89, passed away December 18, 2016 in Delta, Utah. She was born on December 23, 1926 in Hinckley, Utah, the oldest of eight children born to Arthur Loren and Golda Stewart Talbot. She grew up on the family farm in Hinckley. She graduated from Hinckley High School. She grew up next door to...
Annette Moody Tippetts
Dec 8, 2016
Early on the morning of Thursday, December 8, 2016 Annette Moody Tippetts left the last of our loving hugs and passed into the arms of God and family members awaiting her arrival on the other side. Annette was born December 23, 1944 in Delta, Utah to Juel Thurmon Moody and Eva Dean Pace Moody.
An amazing wife,...
Manley Alldredge Abbott
Nov 22, 2016
Manley Alldredge Abbott, our sweet dad, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, in his home in Sugarville Utah, at age 91, with his sweet wife Maxine at his side. Manley was born on November 1, 1925 in a little two room tar paper covered shack in Sugarville, Utah, to George Myron and Doris Elma Alldredge Abbott. He...
Lawrence Lynn Densley
Nov 21, 2016
Lawrence "Larry" Lynn Densley, age 83 of Oak City, passed away peacefully on November 21, 2016. He was born at his family home on February 11, 1933 in Riverton, Utah to Aaron Lynn and Vera May Porter Densley. He was the baby of the family, and was loved and spoiled by his older sisters, Marjorie and Janice. He began...
Jeri Lee Hale Owens
Nov 18, 2016
Jeri Lee Hale Owens, age 73, passed away November 18, 2016 at her home in Oak City, Utah. She was born on August 31, 1943 in Tooele, Utah, the fourth of five children born to Nathan Leonard and Myrta Margie Davis Hale. She grew up working hard and riding horses on her family’s ranch in Trout Creek in the...
William Don Dutson
Nov 17, 2016
William Don Dutson was born at his home in Oak City on September 23, 1941, to Willis Eddy and Thelma Wixom Dutson. He passed away from cancer in his Oak City home on November 17, 2016 at age 75. He attended Elementary School in Oak City, Jr. High in Delta and graduated from Delta High School in 1959. He...
Ruth Deon Peterson Lichfield
Nov 14, 2016
Ruth Deon Peterson Lichfield, age 81, passed away November 14, 2016 at her home in Fillmore, Utah. She was born on March 26, 1935 in Fillmore, Utah, the third of six children born to John LaVar and Hortense Harmon Peterson. Ruth grew up as a hard worker and family peacekeeper. She graduated from Millard High School, where she was...