R. Paul Carter
Feb 18, 2023
On Saturday, February 18, 2023, R. Paul Carter, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, peacefully passed away at the age of 82, exactly 9 years to the day of his father’s death.
Paul was born on November 27, 1940, to Ralph S. and Fern P. Carter. He lived most of his life in Porterville, Utah. He married Vanna Porter on July...
Allen Porter
Feb 17, 2023
Allen Leroy Porter, 70, passed away Friday, February 17, 2023 at the Treeo Independent Living Center in South Ogden, Utah.
Allen was born November 24, 1952 in Ogden, Utah to Harvey J. Porter and Faye Nielsen Porter. He was raised in Devil’s Slide, Utah and lived most of his life in Morgan and Henefer. He was a Morgan High School...
Jay Wardell
Feb 15, 2023
Jay Wardell passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on February 15th, 2023 after a valiant battle with cancer. Jay was born May 4th, 1938, to Owen Douglas Wardell & Margaret Wiseman Rees in Rock Port, UT. He was the baby of the family. Jay grew up in Rock Port on the family farm until 1952 when the state came...
Marcile Gorder
Feb 15, 2023
Marcile was born October 28, 1946, to Ivy and Lewis Furniss. Marcile grew up in Teton Idaho, and graduated from St. Anthony High. After graduating she moved to Utah to do several odd and end jobs, and help her oldest sister. This is how she met and fell in love with her best friend. She married her life long love...
Erik Bjarne Fristrup
Feb 13, 2023
Erik Bjarne Fristrup passed away suddenly on February 13, 2023. He was born on August 6, 1966 to Bjarne and Janet Fristrup. Erik was raised in Midvale, Utah and graduated from Hillcrest High School. He served a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Denmark Copenhagen Mission, where his father was born.
Erik...
Ward Rees
Feb 10, 2023
Jacob Ward Rees age 96 passed away peacefully in his sleep February 10, 2023. He was born January 17, 1927 to Jake and Neta Child Rees “Over the River” in Coalville, Utah. He was a graduate of North Summit High School. He served in World War II, received an honorable discharge, and came home and married the love of his...
Allison Draper
Feb 5, 2023
On the morning of February 5th, this world lost a light that will never be replaced. Words cannot express the loss that we all feel. Allie had a way of making you feel special, by teasing, telling jokes or asking about a detail of your life no one else would remember. Allie loved to cook and learn interesting and strange...
Lavelle Edgel
Feb 4, 2023
Lavelle Edgel died Saturday, February 4, 2023, at 77 years of age. Lavelle was born May 24, 1945 to Herman and Jane Edgel. He married MarJean Edgel in 1965. At the time of his death, they had been married 57 years.
Lavelle is survived by his wife MarJean and his two sons: Ike Edgel, and Jed Edgel (Kendra). He has...
Merrilee Turner Hopkin
Feb 4, 2023
Merrilee Turner Hopkin was born to Paul Hyde Turner and Reba Mary Kygar, December 19th, 1945. She was born, raised and spent her formative years in Morgan, Utah. She loved Morgan, and it was fitting that after 77 years of life, adventure and work, that she returned to Morgan and was surrounded by family as she passed from this life on...
Joyce Bingham
Feb 3, 2023
Joyce Mitchell Bingham, 92, of Mountain Green, Utah, passed away on February 3, 2023, when her good, kind heart stopped beating.
Joyce was born on the 9th of February, 1930 to Esther Louise and David Lester Mitchell in Ogden, Utah. After graduating from Ogden High School, she went on to study Early Childhood Development at Weber State College.
In 1946,...
Vern Merritt Wright
Jan 31, 2023
Vern Merritt Wright passed away peacefully on January 31, 2023, in Morgan, Utah.
He was born July 5, 1938, as one of the triplets (Vern, Verl, and Vera) born to Osmyn and Rachel Wright, of Henefer, Utah.
After graduating from North Summit High School, he earned a degree in accounting from Weber State. He worked for LDS Hospital, NAPA,...
Lisa Jones
Jan 28, 2023
Lisa Jones passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at Ogden Regional Hospital surrounded by her family. She had experienced a decline in her health for the past several months and had received the difficult news of cancer testing results just this past week. She had several health challenges throughout her life.
Lisa was the oldest of three daughters...
Forrest Mann Terrell
Jan 28, 2023
Our family’s hope has been that he would still be with us, but it was not to be according to our wishes. Forrest Mann Terrell left this mortal existence on January 28, 2023 after a recent illness.
Forrest Mann Terrell was born December 12, 1946 in Richmond, Virginia to Forrest Winn Terrell and Anne Pauline Cox Terrell. His early life...
Lucy (Wardell) Giles
Jan 27, 2023
Doris Lucile (Lucy) Giles passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on January 27th, 2023. Lucy was born June 5th, 1941, to James Lyndsey Barnes & Clara Lapreal North in Heber City, UT. She was the 9th of 10 children. Growing up in Heber City she was taught the value of hard work. She spent her youth either unloading sand...
Joshua Woitaszewski
Jan 20, 2023
Joshua Hayden Woitaszewski, age 26, passed away on Friday, January 20, 2023, at home surrounded by his family after a long and courageous battle with Friedreich’s Ataxia.
Josh was born December 22,1996, in Ogden, Utah, the son of Rick Lane Woitaszewski (deceased) and Melissa and Mark Powers. He grew up in Morgan, UT where he graduated from high school...
Barbara Rhodes
Jan 19, 2023
Barbara Joan (Miller) Rhodes was born on 12 May 1928 in Morgan, Utah to William Peterson and Katherine (Katy) Rock Miller. She lived the first three years of her life in Wyoming, and then after her mother died, returned to Morgan to live with her grandparents and her brother, Peter. She was educated in the Morgan School District where...
Fred Kemp
Jan 15, 2023
Peterson, UT – Reynold Frederick Kemp returned home to be with his Heavenly Father and Beloved Wife Karen on January 15, 2023.
Fred was born August 7, 1941 in Murray Utah to Harrold and Sylvia Kemp. Fred and Karen were sealed for time and all eternity on August 30, 1963 in the Logan Temple. Together they had four wonderful daughters
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Billy J Mortenson
Jan 10, 2023
Billy J Mortenson – Billy J Mortenson 88, returned to the Man Upstairs from Scenic, Arizona on January 10, 2023. He was born September 29, 1934 in Porterville, Utah to Parley and Edith Jasper Mortenson. He was raised in Porterville Utah and attended Morgan High School where he played baseball, basketball and football. He met his wife Lucy Irene Gardner...
Orial "Bud" Carter
Jan 10, 2023
Bud Carter was born and died in Porterville Utah. He was a happy, fun, hardworking farmer and Dam man. He was born on his brother Vernal’s first birthday to Orial and Juanita Carter. Sharing a birthday began a lifelong close connection between Vernal and Bud and they enjoyed sharing their birthday celebrations throughout the years along with their sisters Ardell...
John Darrell Hortin
Jan 8, 2023
John Darrell Hortin passed peacefully surrounded by his family on Sunday, January 8, 2023, in Salt Lake City, UT. After suffering a stroke on Wednesday morning January 4th, in his typical style, he quickly rallied and showed improvement, but then experienced complications with his heart. During his final days he had a warm smile and an “I love you” for...

