OBITUARIES
Logan and Smithfield, UT Obituaries
Local obituaries for families in Logan, Smithfield, Cache County and surrounding areas in UT.
Melvin Gaylord Leavitt
Sep 6, 2015
“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth,” Charles Darwin. Melvin Gaylord Leavitt was born April 3rd, 1930 to William Verlan Leavitt and Ethel Kent. He passed away September 6, 2015 in San Diego, CA, surrounded by his children, KaraLyn Drake (Lynn), Kent Leavitt (Janalee), Terri Calvert (Randy), and Eric Bryan (Louise). Gaylord grew up in...
Alieen Christiansen Bird
Sep 4, 2015
Alieen Christiansen Bird, 89, of Logan, Utah, passed away on September 4, 2015, at Legacy House of Logan of causes incident to age. Alieen was born in Logan, Utah, to Niels Wilford Christiansen and Erma Mary Hill Christiansen on June 19, 1926. Her Mother passed away when Alieen was five days old, and she was raised in Newton, Utah, by...
Ray Ellis Jorgensen
Aug 31, 2015
Ray Ellis Jorgensen, 91, passed away August 31, 2015 at the Legacy House of Logan. He was born November 21, 1923 in Burley, ID, to Royal Elred Jorgensen and Bernice Ellis Jorgensen. Ray was raised in Amalga, Utah. He attended school in Amalga, Smithfield and graduated from North Cache High School. Ray proudly served his country in the U.S. Army...
Gerald Lyman Perkes
Aug 27, 2015
July 16, 1938-August 27, 2015 Grandpa Gerald is now in heaven enjoying the reunion with his parents, Lyman and Fern Perkes, his parents in law, Winston and Ramona Crawford, brother Craig, his oldest daughter Pam and his granddaughter Mallory. He died August 27th after a lingering battle with myelofibrosis, an uncommon type of chronic leukemia. He did his level best...
Devon L. Loveday
Aug 22, 2015
Devon L. Loveday was born October 13, 1954 and passed away on August 22, 2015. A life long resident of Cache Valley, Devon was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, a participant in the Special Olympics and involved with the best buddies program. Some of his favorite activities was fishing, camping, bike marathon and watching all sporting events. He...
Marilyn Swartz Thornley
Aug 18, 2015
Marilyn Swartz Thornley, age 68,. formerly of Smithfield, and Brigham City, UT, passed away on Tuesday, August, 18th, 2015, with her daughter Jeana by her side. It wasn't sudden. Marilyn had been struggling with her health for some time. In May of 2015, she was admitted to Logan Nursing and Rehab, where she received care until the time of her...
Beth Loosle Campbell
Aug 16, 2015
Beth Loosle Campbell was born on September 5, 1925 to Reuben Oddo Loosle and Sylvia Heggie Griffiths in Clarkston, Utah. She was the 4th child in a family of 11 children. They later moved to Logan where she attended school. Beth earned a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University and taught at South Cache High School before her marriage. She...
Hazen Leon "Lonnie" Loveday
Aug 9, 2015
Hazen Leon "Lonnie" Loveday Hazen Leon (Lonnie) Loveday was born November 8, 1925 in Logan, Utah. He was the sixth child of Isaac nd Hazel Winberg Loveday. No one at that time could imagine the impact that this one life would have on multiple generations of students and residents of Cache Valley and beyond. He served in the Navy and...
Lillian Martha Hatch Fowers
Aug 6, 2015
Lillian Martha Hatch Fowers devoted mother, wife, and friend was born June 2, 1936 in Torrington, Wyoming. She was the fifth of ten children of Martha and Walter Hatch. Lillian was raised in the Black Hills of South Dakota and graduated from Hot Springs High School. She married her missionary sweetheart, Kenneth Carl Fowers of Plain City Utah, in the...
Seth Lamoin Downs
Jul 28, 2015
Seth Lamoin Downs, 80, of Smithfield passed away July 28, 2015, after a seventeen year struggle with Parkinson disease. He was born February 2,1935, in Smithfield, Utah to Arthur Edward and Birdie Hunt Downs and was the youngest child in a family of twelve children. He was educated in the Cache County School District graduating from North Cache High School...
W. Keith Godderidge
Jul 24, 2015
Wallace Keith Godderidge, son of William Godderidge and Alice Effie Gamet died at the age of 85, Friday, July 24, 2015 at United Health Care in Logan, Utah. He was grateful for the loving care he received there. Keith was born June 7, 1930 in Smithfield Utah, the 6th of 8 children. He is survived by his brother in law...
Gloria Columbine Ward
Jul 17, 2015
Gloria Columbine Ward, 90, passed away July 17, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born at home in Raymond, California to Charlie P. Roesbery and Henrietta Guillemin on September 7, 1924. She graduated from Raymond High School. Gloria married Perl Ward in 1944 in Reno, Nevada. They raised four children while they lived in Raymond. Two girls and two...
Jerry Downs
Jul 17, 2015
Jerry Downs 75, passed away July 17, 2015 at his home in North Logan. For three years he suffered with an illness that ate away at his muscles and was recently diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. Jerry was born August 15, 1939 in Logan, UT to Venna Downs. He was the thirteenth child raised by Arthur and Birdie Downs....
Emily Jannette Wright
Jul 8, 2015
It is with the greatest sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Emily Jannette Wright. Emily was killed in a tragic accident on the evening of Wednesday, July 8, 2015, leaving us much too soon, 9 days after her seventeenth birthday. Emily was born June 29, 1998 in Logan, Utah, the firstborn child of Randall and Stacie (Sneddon)...
Gloria Lay Kirk Pettingill
Jul 7, 2015
Gloria Lay Kirk Pettingill, passed away July 7, 2015 surrounded by loved ones after a valiant fight with cancer. Gloria was born March 26, 1933 in Escalante, Utah to Charles Winford and Eleanor Clora Lay. She was the third of five children, and the only one with fiery, red hair. She had a very happy childhood in Richfield, Utah with...
Tina Lewis Christensen
Jul 6, 2015
Tina Lewis Christensen was born January 7, 1960 in Long Beach, CA to Lulu and Sherman D. Lewis. Her family moved to Cache Valley, where she later graduated from Sky View High School. She married Terry L. Christensen in the Logan Temple, with whom she celebrated 35 years of marriage. She moonlighted as a medical assistant, but her true passion...
Anna Marie Sorensen
Jun 30, 2015
Anna Marie Cecilie Nielsen Sorensen of Smithfield, Utah passed away peacefully on June 30, 2015 at the Gables Care Center. Anna was born on January 18, 1920 in Hojene, Denmark. She married Villy Sorensen on October 7, 1941. Anna, Villy, and their two sons joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1948, after being taught and...
Dorothy Saunders Petersen
Jun 19, 2015
Dorothy Saunders Petersen peacefully passed during the early morning of June 19th, 2015, encircled by loved ones, her hand held by her loving husband, VerNon Petersen. Dorothy, born to Willard G. and Kirstiana Saunders in Hyde Park, Utah January 27th, 1921, was raised in Benson Utah-- the 7th of 14 children-- was preceded in death by both of her parents,...
John Burton Millard
Jun 15, 2015
Logan, Utah - At dawn, June 15, 2015, Lt Col John Burton Millard (ret.), taxied out onto the tarmac, was cleared for takeoff, brought his engines to full throttle and roared up into the heavens on his thirty sixth… and final mission. He slipped the bounds of earth with grace, with dignity and most of all with his great charm...
Margaret Mendoza Herrera
Jun 12, 2015
Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, Margaret Mendoza Herrera, age 70, of Lewiston, passed away peacefully at her home, after an extended illness, surrounded by her adoring husband and family. She was born February 8, 1945, in Mesa, Arizona, a daughter of Gustavo and Maria Herrera Mendoza. As a young girl she learned the value of hard work...
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