Springville & Mapleton, UT Obituaries

Lori June (Tolman) Powell

Mar 26, 2022

Lori June (Tolman) Powell will be remembered by her love, selflessness, passion, and beautiful blue eyes. She passed away on Saturday, March 26, 2022 surrounded by many loved ones. She was born April 9, 1965 in Redlands, California as the fourth and youngest child to Donald Newell Tolman and Lucille Jane Johnson-Tolman. She married Derek Todd Powell...

David James Graves

Mar 25, 2022

David James Graves was welcomed home into the loving arms of his Heavenly Father on March 25, 2022 after a 12 year battle with cancer. Most of his battle was unknown to many as he lived his life to the fullest, not skipping a beat with sports, family vacations, and work, until his body no longer allowed him the ability...

Patricia Ann (Bancroft) Roberts

Mar 25, 2022

Patricia Ann Bancroft Roberts, age 86 of Lindon, passed away Friday, March 25, 2022.  Services are under the direction of Wheeler Mortuary.  Condolences for the family may be expressed on this page.

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McKay Christopher Sorensen

Mar 22, 2022

After a courageous 663 day battle with cancer, our beloved warrior, son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, and friend, Mckay Christopher Sorensen (31), passed peacefully through the veil on March 22nd, 2022, surrounded by his family. Mckay was born on December 18th, 1990 in Provo Utah to Chris and Cathy Sorensen. He brought so much joy to his family during his...

Kenneth Robert Brown

Mar 20, 2022

Kenneth Robert Brown, 80, of Provo, Utah passed away Sunday, March 20, 2022. He was born on November 7, 1941 to William Robert Brown & Ellen Miriam Beveridge Brown in American Fork, Utah. He married Lynne Lorraine Lauritzen on June 4, 1965 & were sealed in the Provo, Utah temple on November 28, 1975.

Ken moved with...

Doris June (Miner) Harker

Mar 18, 2022

Doris June Miner Harker, 93, of Springville, passed peacefully from this earth on Friday, March 18, 2022 with her family by her side and her sweetheart waiting patiently in the wings. Doris June was born October 22, 1928 in Long Beach, California to Melvin and Pearl Miner.  She was the youngest of their four children, joining Doug, Barbara, and Mary...

Jess Ernest Barton

Mar 18, 2022

Jess Ernest Barton died on Friday, March 18, 2022. He was born in Springville, Utah on January 16, 1935 to Daniel Martin Barton and Nellie Bird Barton. He grew up in Springville and graduated from Springville High School in 1953. He was on the high school football and track teams, lettering in track. He began working for Geneva Steel (U.S....

Lori (Crandall) Gammell

Mar 17, 2022

Lori Crandall Gammell, our beloved Wife, Mother, Sister, Aunt, Friend and Nana, passed away peacefully surrounded by family in Mapleton Thursday evening March 17, 2022. She was 63 years young after battling ovarian cancer for four and a half years.

Lori was born March 6, 1959, in Provo, UT to Leland and Geniel Crandall. She enjoyed...

Roderick Galen Betts

Mar 17, 2022

Roderick Galen Betts passed away peacefully on March 17, 2022, in Springville, Utah. Rod was born on September 15, 1939, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He spent his childhood and youth in Rosemary, Alberta, Canada where he gained an appreciation for hard work on the family farm. After serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in...

Mary Pauline (Bonham) Priest

Mar 16, 2022

In the summer of 1993, Mary Pauline Priest, who was in her late sixties then, was flipping head-over-heels in a rickety metal cage, that, in hindsight, was a bad idea. Her glasses went flying, but she held on through each sickening topsy-turvy. She was on a carnival ride at Hickam Air Force Base, Oahu, because I asked her to be...

Karen Faye (Oldroyd) Measom

Mar 16, 2022

Our loving wife, mom, and grandma passed away on March 16, 2022, after a brief encounter with cancer. Karen Faye Oldroyd Measom was born in Salt Lake City to Roland and Faye Herbert Oldroyd on March 25, 1942. At age eight she moved to Springville where her father owned SOS Drug Store. Karen enjoyed working as a soda jerk with...

Val Gene (Washburn) Ogles

Mar 11, 2022

Our beloved Val Gene Ogles passed from this life on March 11, 2022. During her final weeks, many of her children and family were able to be by her side in Provo, Utah and express their love for her and her exemplary life. Val Gene was born on June 5, 1931 in Blanding, Utah to Alvin LaVell Washburn and Wasel...

Riley Kevin Howell

Mar 8, 2022

Riley Kevin Howell, age 33, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday March 8, 2022. He is survived by his mother Kerrie Taylor, step-father Troy Taylor, brother Austin Howell, sister Jentry Howell, brother-in-law Timothy Kindle, grandparents Richard and Marie Howell, Cecelia Wilkinson, Gary and Karen Hoover, many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father Kevin Howell,...

Carol Jean (Heaton) Eves

Mar 6, 2022

Carol Jean Heaton Eves, 86, of Springville, Utah, passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 12 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Chapel on 1965 East Canyon Road, Springville, Utah. Viewings for family and friends will be held from 6-8 p.m. on...

Ronald Brent Pickering

Mar 6, 2022

Ronald Brent Pickering, 79, of Springville, passed away Sunday, March 6, 2022. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jay Willard Pickering and Alma Jewell Hedgepeth Pickering on May 25, 1942. He married Dorothy Elaine Witherell on December 19, 1969, in the St. George LDS Temple.

Brent was a member of The Church of Jesus...

Michael Douglas Richmond

Feb 24, 2022

Michael Douglas Richmond, 76, of Springville, Utah, passed away February 24, 2022 in his home in Springville, with various health issues.

He was born September 23,1945, to Maurice DeVaughn Richmond and Grace Marie Oakey. The youngest of 5 children. Having 1 brother and 3 sisters, that he loved very much. He grew up...

David Ansel Young

Feb 23, 2022

David Ansel Young, age 87 of Mapleton, passed away Wednesday, February 23, 2022.  Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. in the Mapleton 17th Ward Chapel at 1068 S. Hwy 89 in Mapleton.  There will be a viewing held Friday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Mapleton Wheeler Mortuary at...

Andrew Louis Gurule

Feb 23, 2022

Also known as Junior or Andy, of Springville Utah passed away Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022, at the age of 86. He was born September 4th, 1935 in Del Norte Colorado to Andres Evalino Gurule and Augustina Ramona Atencio (preceded in death). He married Lucy I Jiron on May 14th, 1962 in Provo Utah Christian Church. She proceeded him in death...

Sharon Elizabeth (Willis) Taylor

Feb 23, 2022

Sharon Elizabeth Willis Taylor passed away peacefully at her home in Springville, UT on February 23, 2022 surrounded by her loved ones, after a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.  She and her twin sister, Shirley Catherine, were born to Melbourne Hugh Willis and Merle Elizabeth Baker, in McNary, AZ on November 23, 1942.  Her mother passed away when the twins...

Dean LaVar Ivie

Feb 19, 2022

Dean LaVar Ivie, 91, long time resident of Springville, passed away on Saturday, February 19, 2022.  He was born June 6, 1930 in Provo, Utah to Fay and Ethel Marrott Ivie.  He married Dorothy Hansen on March 4, 1949.  Their marriage was sealed for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple in 1954. Dean was the only boy...