Local obituaries for Logan, & Cache County, UT.

Apr 29, 2005

Barbara Ashcroft Thurston, a native of Hyde Park, passed away on April 29, 2005 in Ventura, California, of pulmonary fibrosis. Barbara was born December 10, 1916, the daughter of Charles Leland and Sarah Wanda (Reese) Ashcroft. She was valedictorian of her graduating class at North Cache High School and went on to obtain a BS degree from Utah State Agricultural...

Apr 7, 2005

HYDE PARK, UTAH: Janis Skujins died on April 7, 2005 in Hyde Park, Utah. He was born April 13, 1926 in Liepaja, Latvia, son of Janis and Zelma (Silins). Janis emigrated from Latvia to United States and served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1950 - 54. He married Irena Vizulis in 1955, and they were later divorced....

Feb 10, 2003

Robert G. Israelsen North Logan - Robert Glen Israelsen, 49, was lost and presumed drowned on Feb. 10th, 2003 in a boating/fishing accident on Bear Lake. Sudden winds capsized his boat and an endless four and a half year search has continued until July 22, 2007 when his body was recovered from the lake. Robert was born Jan. 14 1954...

Nov 20, 2002

LOGAN 7 Edith Watson McCulloch, 91, of Logan died Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2002, at the Sunshine Terrace. Edith was born in Smithfield on March 26, 1911, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann Pack Watson. She has always called Cache Valley her home. She grew up and was educated in Smithfield, attended North Cache High. She was married to Ronald...

Apr 26, 1983

Elmo Glenn Matthews was born on 7 August 1933, in Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, his father, Victor Washington Matthews, was 26 and his mother, Helen Blanche Marsh, was 29. He lived in Election District 1 Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1935 and Utah, United States in 1960. He died on 26 April 1983, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United...

Aug 1, 1943

Max Wendell Lower was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, March 3, 1920. He came to a farming family, and was the first of six children. Max’s parents, Steven and Oka Lower, moved the growing family to Lewiston, Utah, in the spring of 1926. Farming is what sustained the family through the Great Depression, as he grew up. He also completed...

WELLSVILLE, UTAH: Clarke Poppleton Maughan passed from this life on Sunday, March 4, 2012, at his home in Wellsville. Clarke was born on September 15, 1921 in Wellsville to Guy H and Emma Poppleton Maughan. He married Ruth Allen Hendry on November 12, 1947 in the Logan LDS Temple. In June, 2010, he married Clara Larsen Maughan. He attended school...

Bill Van Hemert passed away January 30, 2012 at his home in Logan, Utah (Young Ward). He was born in Soda Springs, Idaho to I.G. and Lillian (Mikesell) Van Hemert. He married Kay Van Hemert May of 2004 in Millville, Utah. He is preceded in death by his parents, and 1 nephew. He is survived by his wife and 2...

LOGAN, UTAH: Deborah Kay O’Dell was born January 18, 1951, in Bakersfield, California to Leslie Marvin O’Dell and Mary Charlotte (Robertson) O’Dell. She passed away peacefully at her home in Logan, Utah on December 28, 2011 at the age of sixty. Deb moved to Oregon in 1961, and then to Utah in 1974. She served a mission in Toronto, Canada...

HYDE PARK, UTAH: Ida C. Kennedy went to be with her Heavenly Father and family on December 22, 2011 in Helena, Montana. She was born on March 3, 1930 in Juniper, Idaho at the family homestead to Hazelton Joiner Campbell and Mariah Louisa Bingham Campbell. Ida graduated from Logan High School in 1948 in Logan, Utah. She also graduated from...

Sandy, Utah – Norma Anderson Watkins, 88, died Sunday, December 25, 2011, at home surrounded by her family. Norma was born June 21, 1923, in Wellsville to Gilbert Nathan and Mary Wyatt Anderson. She attended Wellsville schools, graduating from South Cache High School in 1941. In 1946 she met and married Derrald Lewis Watkins of Logan. She is survived by...

Mona Floy Christensen Scott, 86, passed away quietly in Logan, Utah, December 22, 2011 with the knowledge that her family loved her deeply and with one of her daughters at her side. Floy was born May 24, 1925 in Thatcher, Utah in the home of her parents, Melvin and Ivie Christensen. She spent her childhood and youth living on the...

HYDE PARK - Early in the morning on December 15th June Lake, 80, passed away from natural causes at her home in Hyde Park. Our beloved Mother, Nanna, Great-Nanna and friend left this earth to re-unite with the love of her life, our Father and her eldest daughter Rosanne Jane. Mom was born January 2,1931 in Oxford, England to Winfred...

Gayle Mearetta Carlson Taylor, 88 passed away Saturday, December 17, 2011 in Providence, Utah with her loving son by her side. Gayle was born November 23, 1923 in Logan, Utah to Victor Eugene & Mary Mearitta McNeil Carlson. Gayle spent her entire life in Logan. She married Arnold (Lefty) Taylor on August 6, 1941 in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho; later...

Gary John Burt, age 55, passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 3, 2011 following complications from a cardiac arrest a week prior. He was born on September 12, 1956 to wonderful, loving parents, John and Merle Burt in salt Lake City, Utah. He had only one brother, Jeff, who he considered a great friend. Gary often...

Brett Rex Birch passed away November 26, 2011, at the Sanpete Valley Hospital from causes related to muscular dystrophy. Brett was born May 8, 1965 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Rex Clark and Sarah Ann Birch. He grew up in Smithfield and graduated from Sky View High School in 1983. He served a mission for the LDS church in Catania,...

Norma S. Godfrey Ogden – Norma S. Godfrey “Grandma Logan”, 94, passed away of natural causes on November 23, 2011. Born September 26, 1917 in Cedarville, Idaho, to Erastus and Hannah May Schvaneveldt. Married Earland Dewain Godfrey, June 28, 1934. He died April 7, 1979. She was an active and faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Bruce Wilson LaBeau, 47, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah. Bruce was born February 6, 1964, in Logan, Utah, to Robert W. and Renee LaBeau. Bruce graduated from Logan High in 1982. Bruce played on the Logan High football and baseball teams and was a natural athlete who loved to ski and...

OGDEN UTAH Cindy Lea McRae Tanner died suddenly due to an aortic aneurysm on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, in Ogden, Utah. She was born January 12, 1958, in Boulder, Colorado to Don J. and Donna Lea (East) McRae. Cindy attended DeAnza Elementary School in Palo Alto California until her family moved to Utah. Cindy finished her schooling while she lived...

Austin (Jim) H. Morgan passed away on the 11th of November, 2011. He was born Oct. 19, 1914 in Millville, Utah. He was the son of Elizabeth B. & Ernest L. Morgan. Jim graduated from South Cache High School. He married Marjorie Hancey Feb. 20, 1936. Jim was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and...