All Obituaries

Salt Lake City, UT – Janis Locher, daughter, sister, and aunt, passed away peacefully, Saturday evening July 14, 2018 at the Highland Care Center in Holladay, Utah. Janis was born to Adolph Locher and Myrtle Henriksen on Aug. 26, 1938 in Salt Lake City. Janis graduated from the University of Utah and taught school for 36 years. She was a beloved teacher who shared her love of learning, kindness, and cheerful demeanor with thousands of students. Janis served faithfully as a member of...

Clarence Dee Hadley passed away on July 8, 2018.  He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 30, 1932 to Clarence Barton and Bessie Fay Neville.  He joined the US Navy and was on the USS Haven Hospital ship in the Korean War.  He married Marilyn Rae Taylor out of High School.  They had four children.  Dee worked after the Navy for Chicago Bridge & Iron, Chevron Oil and then started his own business, Hadley and Sons.  He loved to work and was known for his...

Cleo Christine Trowbridge Upwall died July 8, 2018, age 80.  She was born November 22, 1937 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  She was the only child of James Briggs Trowbridge and Cleo Graham Ericson.  She graduated from South High School in 1956.  She received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah in 1961 and a Master of Science from Utah State University.  She earned an additional sixty hours of college credit. She taught 36 years of Home Economics in Utah...

The children of Aslaug Evjen, Thor, Bjorn, Knut, Ingrid, Per and Solveig, announce the passing of their mother on July 7, 2018 at about 4:30 AM. Our mother was born in a small town on the west coast of Norway on April 28, 1928. She suffered thru the privations of the Second World War. She graduated with a nursing degree and started practicing in Drammen’s hospital. It was there that she met our dad, Ivar. They were married in 1951 with their first child arriving in 1952. Two other...

Helen H. Kupfer Willden Cox passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on June 30, 2018.  She was born on March 15, 1931 in Salt Lake City, Utah to William James Kupfer and May Ludean Hansen Kupfer.  She married Kenneth C. Cox on April 3, 1966 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She enjoyed hunting, camping, boating and bowling.  She worked at a bakery for 27 years. Helen loved gardening. Helen is survived by children, Diane Dinneen (Ron Thomas), Richard (Cindy) Willden, Gary...

For nearly one hundred years God allowed one of His angels to walk the earth. Her name was Myrtle Hess Rappleye, born 26 November 1920, to James Henry Hess and Alice Tovey. She was led to a great man of integrity, a sailor in the United States Navy, Horace Naylor Rappleye, whom she wed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on 19 March 1943, in the midst of WWII. Their first daughter Caralyn Rappleye Skousen (Mike) was born while Horace was overseas, stationed at Pearl Harbor. They were separated by...

"Grandma Betty" Betty passed away at home on June 27, 2018 at the age of 93.  She was born on October 26, 1924 to Jack and Rose Miller Giacomo and was very proud of her Italian/German ancestry.  Betty graduated from South High School in the class of 1941 and attended the University of Utah at the age of 17.  At the onset of WWII, she chose to become a Civil Service employee as a clerk typist and then advanced to clerk stenographer in the Judge Advocate Department at...

I was a baby boomer born in 1947 in Hot Springs, AR, to Sue and Floyd Lakey.  At the age of 3 mo., I joined my new parents in my first move to the bustling city of Galveston, TX.  My daddy was a longshoreman at the port of Galveston and mama was in the age-old profession of housewife. I led a mischievous kid’s life till I graduated from one of the typical Southern segregated high schools.  Though being a product of the bigotry of the times, I could not understand why...

Barbara Jean Hay Carlson was born in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1927 to Raymond and Thelma Hay and passed away peacefully on June 16, 2018. She will be greatly missed by her friends and family. Barbara lived most of her life in the Holladay area where she and husband Joe built their own home and raised a beautiful family. She will be fondly remembered for her kindness and love for others and for her total selfless devotion and love for her children and grandchildren. She was preceded in...

Our beloved Lesley Ann Tidwell Black passed away on June 11, 2018. Lesley was born June 10, 1952 to Farron L Tidwell and Glenna June Call Tidwell-Waylett. She grew up in Salt Lake City and attended Granite High School. As a teenager, she played the cello, wrote music for a string quartet, played in the governor’s mansion, and had musical and scholastic scholarships upon graduation. She obtained her Bachelors Degree at the University of Utah, followed by a Masters from BYU, graduating...