All Obituaries

Carol Mae Wright Palfreyman passed away September 20th 2023 at her home in Kaysville, Utah with family by her side.  Born August 7th 1933 to Marjorie and Melbourne Wright in Ogden Utah.  Raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Graduated East High School in SLC class of 1951.  On February 5th 1953 Carol married the love of her life Leslie (Les) Palfreyman in the LDS temple in Salt Lake City. As a young lady Carol enjoyed working at Mountain Bell telephone.  After starting...

Our loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Wilma Fae Lake Hilton passed away peacefully at home on September 18, 2023. Born in Salt Lake City on February 28, 1941, to William and Thelma Bangerter Lake. She married Robert (Bob) Hilton in the Salt Lake Temple on June 6, 1957. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many callings including Relief Society Counselor, Primary President, teacher, and her favorite Primary Chorister. Fae...

On the sunny morning of September 14, 2023 mom slipped from this world into heaven after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Lois was born on September 3rd, 1931 to George Z. & Catharine White Aposhian. She grew up with three brothers (who enjoyed teasing her), and many cousins as her best friends. She was a feisty little girl. Lois attended Sherman Elementary, Olympus Junior High, and was a proud graduate of Granite High School. After graduation, she worked for the Church as a...

Estella Dansie Benson; Age 99.  Estella passed away on September 13, 2023 in Holladay, UT; She was born on July 21, 1924, in Salt Lake City, UT to Mahonri Moriancumer and Lillie Estella Starling Dansie.  She married Jesse Nathaniel Benson on March 25, 1946. She graduated from South High School. She enrolled at West High School in a dressmaking class and became an excellent seamstress. She loved to quilt. She canned and she was a great cook.  You couldn't leave her home...

Kenneth passed away peacefully on September 12, 2023.  He was 74 years old and died in a care facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kenneth was born March 22, 1949 to Layton L. Rayl and LuJean Peterson Rayl in Lehi, Utah.  He was the first born child.  He is survived by 3 siblings and their spouses:  Claudette Rayl, Sharon Wilson (William), John Rayl (Stephanie) and Michael Rayl.  He has 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren: Lissa (Melissa) Lander (Kris) and 3 children;...

Roger Weston Upwall died September 11, 2023, at the age of 87. He was born November 12, 1935, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the fourth child of Norman Benedict Upwall and Chloe May Winger Upwall.  He graduated from East High School. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years in California, Japan, and Okinawa. He served an LDS church mission to Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. He attained a Bachelor of Science from Weber State College and Utah State University. He earned...

Mary Ellen Burns Gibbs died on September 10, 2023, in Holladay, Utah. Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin to Robert Emmet Burns and Charlotte Calvert Burns, she had a drive for life from the beginning and never saw herself limited by the traditions of the time. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Suma Cum Laude and became a CPA at age 20. After moving west, she met her husband, Richard Park Gibbs, married in the LDS Manti, Utah temple and embarked on 63 years of marriage and...

Mark Cameron Anderson, aged 51, passed away peacefully in his sleep on September 8, 2023 in Provo Utah. He was born on April 19, 1972 in Kankakee, Illinois to Lawrence Oliver Anderson and Sandra Daryl Working.  Mark treasured his time in  the Wings of Change karate dojo in which he earned his most treasured possession, a brown belt. He served at the Salt Lake City Temple in the baptistry for many years which made him very happy. Mark valiantly fought juvenile diabetes from the age...

Frederick Harvey Van Wagoner, age 86, of Eagle Mountain, Utah, passed away peacefully at home August 21st, 2023 with his loving wife, Christy by his side. Fred was born on September 12th, 1936, in Wellington, Utah to Elden Horace Van Wagoner and Sarah Jane Pinegar. Fred married Christine Young on December 31st, 1981 and later sealed in the Jordan River Temple November 18th, 1995. Fred is survived by his wife, Christy, (3 Sons) Sterling, Gerald (Wife Teshia), Allen (Wife Tracie), (2...

  Louis HAL Edison 1919-2023 Our handsome, elegant, kind and intelligent dad, grandpa and Gpa slipped away on Thursday, August 3 2023 just a few weeks shy of his 104th birthday. He was truly a member of the Greatest Generation -- a man who never talked about his service in WWII but who carried the lessons learned then and never passed by anyone without smiling and raising a hand of greeting. Hal was a Cache Valley boy. Born in Logan on August 24, 1919 to Ferrall Priscilla Evans...