Obituaries

Wayne Durrans

Wayne Durrans

Dec 7, 2025

Wayne Larry Durrans was born on January 20, 1966, to Larry and Shirley Durrans. He graduated from Taylorsville High School. 

Wayns spent the last 25 years of his life happily married to his wife, Monica, and enjoying time with their two sons, Tyler and Jason. Wayne enjoyed fishing and spending time with his close friends. He cared about many people and made many more...

Angela Newbold

Angela Newbold

Dec 6, 2025

Our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Angela B. Newbold, passed away the morning of December 6, 2025. Although we greatly feel her loss, we are comforted knowing she is free from pain and illness and is now able to be reunited with loved ones who have gone before.

Angela was born August 28,1944, in Berlin, Germany, to Vera Giehr and Otto Bensch. She...

Alan Von Blackburn

Alan Von Blackburn

Dec 2, 2025

Alan Blackburn, 62, passed away on December 2, 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Born on August 24, 1963, in the same city he called home throughout his life, Alan brought warmth, creativity, and laughter to all who knew him.Alan was a man of many talents and passions. From a young age, he displayed an extraordinary gift for drawing and...

Carol Graham

Carol Graham

Dec 2, 2025

Carol Barker Graham died at home on December 2, 2025.

Carol was born December 4, 1944, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Russell and Erma M. Fisher Barker. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Carol graduated from Skyline High School and attended Westminster University for a time. On September 10, 1965, Carol married David N. Graham in the...

Florence Bedont

Florence Bedont

Dec 2, 2025

Florence Ann (Keil) Bedont was born in Virgin, Utah to George and Colleen Keil.

She met and met Bob Bedont on a blind-date for his 16th Birthday. They married on June 15, 1976, later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.

Flo is survived by her husband Bob and sons Dr. BJ Bedont (Allison), Brandon (Heidi), Tom (Heather), and Jason, and six grandchildren...

Matthew Padilla

Matthew Padilla

Dec 1, 2025

Matthew John Padilla, 56, unexpectedly passed away on Monday, December 1, 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was born on August 28, 1969, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Primitivo and Marcelina Padilla. Matthew was a devoted son, father, brother, grandfather, and friend whose kindness and generous spirit touched everyone he met.

Matthew is survived by his children, Stacie, Alexis,...

Patsy Griffiths

Patsy Griffiths

Nov 28, 2025

Patsy Belle Hawthorne Holt Griffiths was born on December 27, 1936, and passed away on November 28, 2025. She was born in Los Angeles, California, to Babe Belle Hammond and was adopted by her father, William Hawthorne. Patsy grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, as an only child, often spending time with her aunts and uncles: Chick and Ruth...

Klaus Oefele

Klaus Oefele

Nov 27, 2025

Klaus Dieter OefeleFebruary 23, 1946 - November 27, 2025

Klaus Dieter Oefele, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, passed away on November 27, 2025, at the age of 79.

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, on February 23, 1946, Klaus immigrated to the United States with his parents, Rudolf and Lotty Oefele, in 1956 at the age of 10. He graduated from South High...

Lonnie Ayers

Lonnie Ayers

Nov 27, 2025

Lonnie Douglas Ayers passed away peacefully on November 27, 2025, in Draper, Utah. He was 87 years old.

This good man was born January 6, 1938, in Lewiston, Idaho. He was the ninth of ten children born to Lester Charles and Lucy Alice Pearson Ayers. He loved sports and excelled at playing football, baseball, and basketball. After graduating from Lewiston High...

Lisa Keele

Lisa Keele

Nov 20, 2025

Lisa Faye Keele, age 63, was a devoted mother, loving grandmother, proud great-grandmother, and the cherished wife of Robert Keele. She passed away in the early morning of November 20, 2025, surrounded by those she loved most. Lisa was born on April 16, 1962, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jaynene and Robert Stromberg. She grew up in Salt Lake...

Thomas Wolf

Thomas Wolf

Nov 19, 2025

Our beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, Thomas Lewis Wolf, passed away peacefully at home on

November 19, 2025, just shy of his 97th birthday. He led a distinguished and fulfilling life.

Tom was born on December 22, 1928, in San Francisco, California, to George Given Wolf and Kate Ingram Wolf. At the age of three, he moved with his family to...

Esther Stratton

Esther Stratton

Nov 14, 2025

Esther Emily Milner Stratton was born on December 8, 1927, in Livingston, Montana. She lived during the great depression that taught her skills that affected her family's life.

During high school, her attraction to a very eligible and handsome man resulted in their marriage on October 11, 1947, later sealing that union in the Cardston Alberta Temple on February 28, 1953.

She worked as...

Lynn Mallonee

Lynn Mallonee

Nov 13, 2025

Lynn Lewis Mallonee, a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, passed away peacefully on the afternoon of November 13, 2025, at the age of 88.Born on May 13, 1937, in Compton, California, Lynn was the son of Lynn Cornelius Mallonee and Gwendolyn Delia (Ness) Mallonee. As a young boy, he spent countless hours riding his bike up and down the Pacific...

Barbara Williams

Barbara Williams

Nov 11, 2025

Barbara Kramer Campbell Williams of West Jordan, Utah returned to her Heavenly home peacefully at the age of 90 on November 11, 2025. She is now reunited and welcomed home after her earthly journey by her deceased parents, siblings, late daughter, Mary Bartell, granddaughters Julie Faught, Kimberly Labrum Hoffman, and the baby son Jed Kramer Campbell that only lived two...

Bruce W Larsen

Bruce W Larsen

Nov 11, 2025

Bruce W Larsen, 81, passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, in Murray, Utah.

Bruce was born April 30, 1944, in Glendale, California to Don and Susan Larsen.

He graduated from Burbank High School and then served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico City, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Soon after, he married the love...

Don Bennion

Don Bennion

Nov 11, 2025

Don Udell Bennion, age 88, of South Jordan, Utah passed away peacefully at home on November 11, 2025. He was born on August 5, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Orlyn Udell Bennion and Mary Thelma Bawden. He married Marlene Jones in the Salt Lake Temple on June 19, 1958. They raised their family in Granger, Utah (now West...

Zaylee Larsen

Zaylee Larsen

Nov 10, 2025

With hearts filled with grief and love, we announce that our sweet baby girl, Zaylee Mae Larsen, passed away peacefully in her mother's arms on November 10, 2025, at 1:07 a.m. surrounded by her loving family at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she returned to her Heavenly Father.

Zaylee was born on June 18, 2024, at 11:30...

Debra Parry

Debra Parry

Nov 6, 2025

Debra Pollei Parry, 69, of West Jordan City, Utah, passed away peacefully on November 6, 2025, in the company of her two daughters, Kristi and Michelle. She was born on September 11, 1956, in Salt Lake City to Ralf and Thelma Pollei.

Debbie grew up in the Salt Lake area and attended Olympus High School, graduating with honors. She then went...

Margaret Amador

Margaret Amador

Nov 5, 2025

Margaret Amador

December 18, 1923 ~ November 5, 2025



Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend, returned to her Father-in-Heaven November 5, 2025, after having a severe stroke.

She was born December 18, 1923, in San Bernadino, California. When the Great Depression came, her family moved to Montana to work on a farm for survival. She saw many things in her life -- wars, nuclear weapons,...

Roxey Haynie

Roxey Haynie

Nov 5, 2025

Roxey Davis Haynie, affectionately known by family as "Coke", passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on November 5, 2025, surrounded by her loved ones in South Jordan, Utah. She was born on November 24,1935 to Lois Stokes and Richard Davis in Tremonton, Utah. Roxey was the 2nd oldest out of 7 children.

She earned her bachelor's in nursing at...