OBITS: The Spectrum 20 Jul 2005; St. George, Washington co., Utah text-formatted by W. David Samuelsen for The USGenWeb Archives Project *********************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ut/utfiles.htm *********************************************************************** Source: St. George The Spectrum http://www.thespectrum.com Alice Dawn Bowler CEDAR CITY - Alice Dawn Bowler, age 61, passed away on July 15, 2005 at her home in Cedar City, Utah. She was born August 13, 1943 in St. George, Utah to Milton and Blanche Holt Bowler. On July 1, 1961 in Cedar City, Utah she was married to Thomas "Tink" Holyoak and together they raised three children. They later divorced. Alice had many ambitions and loves in her life, but one of her favorites was cooking. She was always complimented by her family and friends, especially for her famous prime rib at the Veyo Merc. She also enjoyed reading and spending time with her grandchildren, whom she loved very much. Alice was always known to be a very accepting person, loving people for who they were. She was also very proud in her accomplishment of being a breast cancer survivor. She is survived by her children Staci (James) Butler and Gary (Stefanie) Holyoak from Cedar City and Cody (Tracey) Holyoak from Rohnert Park, California, and by her siblings Quenton (Sandy) Bowler of Summit and Helen Gardner of Gunlock. She is preceded in death by her two brothers Dean and Elwood Bowler. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday morning, July 20, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at the Veyo LDS Church Building. Friends and family may call on Tuesday night, July 19, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Cedar City Southern Utah Mortuary and on Wednesday, July 20, 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. at the Veyo LDS Church Building. Interment will be in the Gunlock Cemetery. Online condolences may be sent through our website at www.sumfamily.com The family would like to give a special Thank You to the staff of Kolob Care Center and for all their help over the last few months. Originally published July 20, 2005 Billie Rayne Davis Minersville - Billie Rayne Davis, 82, passed away July 15, 2005 at the Beaver Valley Hospital. He was born April 28, 1923 in Minersville, Utah to James Victor & Eulalia Beaumont Davis. He married Lois Renee Adams July 5, 1957 in the St George LDS Temple. Bill worked as a feed mill operator for many years. He was a very fun loving man and enjoyed playing practical jokes on everyone. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many positions in the Church. He loved to read the scriptures and listen to church programs. He will be greatly missed by those who knew him. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He is survived by his wife Renee of Minersville, three children, Rory Lee (Barbara) Terry of Hayes, Kansas, Hugh (Denise) Terry of West Valley City, & Cecil James Davis of Las Vegas, NV. He has nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Victor Davis and three sisters, Lorraine Horton, JoAnn Terry and Helena Davis. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 1:00PM in the Minersville LDS 1st Ward Chapel. Friends and family may pay their respects on Monday evening at the Church in Minersville from 6:00PM to 8:00PM and on Tuesday from 11:30AM to 12:30PM at the Church. Interment will be in the Minersville Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. Online condolences can be sent to beaver@southernutahmortuary.com. Originally published July 20, 2005 Kenneth Hepworth "Grandpa's Gone Fishing" CEDAR CITY - Kenneth slipped quietly away into the waiting arms of his sweetheart Phyllis in the early morning hours of July 18, 2005, at the age of 89 years in the home of his son Dale. He was born on December 1, 1915, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Thomas and Ada Ness Hepworth. He grew up in the Salt Lake area surrounded by his brothers and sisters, and enjoyed his favorite past time "fishing" with his friends on Mill Creek. He graduated from the University of Utah, and was drafted into the armed services where he served honorably during World War II in the Pacific Theater, 136th Field Artillery Battalion. He spent 32 years working as an engineer for the Utah Department of Transportation and retired in 1978 as Deputy Highway Construction Engineer. He married Mildred Clift in 1941 and had one son, Kris Clift Hepworth. They were later divorced. In 1947 he met and married his sweetheart Phyllis Warr. This marriage brought a son, Dale Kenneth, and a stepdaughter, Phyllis Charlene Langdon. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Jordan River Temple. In 1987 Ken and Phyllis moved to Cedar City, Utah, to be near their son Dale. Ken lovingly cared for his sweetheart until her death in May 2003. He loved his family, and enjoyed taking them on trips, fishing, or just visiting with them. He will be forever remembered as an honest, kind and gentle man. He leaves a legacy of love, integrity, hard work, and compassion. He is survived by his sons, K.C. (Susie) Hepworth of Utopia, Texas, Dale (Linda) Hepworth of Cedar City, Utah, and a stepdaughter Phyllis Charlene Forsyth of Sacramento, California. He is also survived by sisters Ellen H. Pulley and Esther H. Bowers, 13 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, 15 great-great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. He was proceeded in death by his parents, sisters Marjory H. Dean, Ada H. Bernards, Gladys H. Larsen, brothers T. Raymond Hepworth, Milton N. Hepworth, and Golden L. Hepworth, son-in-law Vernell Forsyth, and special friends Pete and Afton Kelsey. Special thanks to Iron County Home Health for their years of compassionate and faithful service. "To Live In the Hearts Of Those Left Behind, Is To Live Forever" Graveside services will be held on Friday, July 22, 2005, 10:00 a.m. at the Valley View Memorial http://www.sumfamily.comPark located at 4391 W. 4100 S. Friends and family may call on Thursday, July 21, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the McDougal Funeral Home in Salt Lake City located at 4330 S. Redwood. Interment will be in the Valley View Memorial Park. Online condolences may sent through our website www.sumfamily.com Originally published July 20, 2005 Maeser Welcome Terry ST. GEORGE - Distinguished St. George, Utah businessman and LDS Church leader Maeser Welcome Terry, 91, died July 19, 2005 of complications incident to age. He was surrounded by his beloved wife Marilla and his devoted family, those to whom he had given the strength of his life and all of his love. Born September 18, 1913 in Enterprise, Utah to Joseph A. and Nancy Mae Holt Terry, he was educated in Enterprise public schools where he served as student body president of Enterprise High School during the year in which the legendary block "E" was constructed on the hillside west of the community. A gifted musician with a beautiful tenor voice, he was regularly cast in the lead of a series of musicals in high school and later at Dixie College where he studied Education and graduated in 1934. He was a member of the Enterprise String Band, playing the drums, for many years. Following his marriage on June 15, 1934 in the St. George LDS Temple to his childhood sweetheart, the beautiful Marilla Barlocker, they began a farming operation which grew in later years into the turkey-raising and turkey processing business know throughout the Mountain West as Bill's Best. During those years he also created Terry's Mercantile, a grocery and dry goods store in Enterprise. Always committed to civic activities and the betterment of his community, Maeser particularly enjoyed a career-long membership in the service to Rotary International. Unfailingly devoted to his Church and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he served a mission in the Oakland California Mission with his wife from 1980-82. All seven of his children also served missions for the church. He gave dedicated service as Bishop, a member of the High Council, Stake Patriarch, and for more than twenty-five years as an ordinance worker in the St. George LDS Temple. Maeser's faith meant everything to him and is the central element in the eternal legacy he leaves his posterity. Maeser is survived by his wife, (to whom he sang "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" every night of their married life), and the following children: Reginald (Linda) Terry, and Fenton (Ilona) Terry of Enterprise; Patricia (Jeffrey) Holland of Salt Lake City; Steven (Marie) Terry of Page, Arizona; David (Linda) Terry of St. George; and the late Joseph (LeAnn) Terry of Diamond Valley, Sherene (David) Dillon of Farmington, Utah; and foster son Buzzy Kiro of Gallup, New Mexico; 38 grandchildren, 82 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. He was preceded in death by a son, Joseph, his parents and siblings, Mabel Terry Bryan, Durward Terry, Hazel Ruth, and Merrill Terry. Funeral services will be held Friday, July 22, 2005, at 11 a.m., at the St. George LDS West Stake Center, 1285 N. Bluff Street, St. George, Utah. A viewing will be held Thursday, July 21, from 6-8 p.m., at the Metcalf Mortuary, 288 W. St. George Blvd., and Friday, July 22, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., prior to services at the Stake Center. Interment will take place at 3 p.m., in the Enterprise City Cemetery under the direction of Metcalf Mortuary 435-673-4221. Condolences may be sent to the family through Metcalf's website at www.metcalfmortuary.com. The family wishes to thank those associated with Horizon Home Health Care and Rocky Mountain Hospice, for the loving care and assistance given their husband and father in the declining months of his life. Originally published July 20, 2005 Ellen Stout Woodbury KUNA, IDAHO - Ellen Stout Woodbury, 89, of Kuna, Idaho, passed away July 17, 2005. She was born in LaVerkin, Utah on October 26, 1915 to Allen William and Ellen Isabella Thurston Stout. She married Max Johnson Woodbury on March 10, 1933 in Parowan, Utah. They were sealed in the St. George Temple on December 12, 1934. He preceded her in death on July 5, 2003. She graduated from Hurricane High School in 1933 and lived in LaVerkin until 1966, when they moved to Provo. Since the death of her husband, she has lived in Kuna, Idaho. She was a member of the LDS Church, served in all auxiliaries, and briefly with her husband in the Provo Temple. Hobbies include making quilts, divinity and molasses candy, family reunions, and Hawaii, where she went para-sailing when she was 80 years old. She is survived by her children, Maxine (Paul) Honey, Henderson, Nevada; LouAnne (Ray) Lopez, Henderson, Nevada; DeLynne Crossley, Pocatello, Idaho; Mona Alldredge, St.George, Utah; Esther (Don) Nelson, Springville, Utah; Arthur Allen (Maryann) Woodbury, Nephi,Utah; Michael Stout (Julie) Woodbury, John Day, Oregon; Clair Ramon (JoLee) Woodbury, Hurricane, Utah; Dean Lewis (Mich'el) Woodbury, Richfield, Utah; and Don Curtis (Mary) Woodbury, Kuna, Idaho. She is also survived by 56 grandchildren, 82 great-grandchildren, and 8 great-great-grandchildren, two sisters, Norma Sanders, LaVerkin, Utah and Elva White, Jerome, Idaho. Two grandsons and two great-grandsons are currently serving missions for the LDS Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Fern LaThorste and Ruth Seegmiller, two sons-in-law, Daniel Dee Alldredge, and Dennis James Crossley; one grandson, Richard Woodbury, one grandson-in-law, Chris Baca, and one granddaughter-in-law, Sarah Nelson. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2005, at 11:00 a.m. in the Hurricane 16th Ward, 650 South 700 West in Hurricane. Friends may call at the ward chapel Friday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. and again on Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in the LaVerkin Cemetery. Funeral directors, Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Online guest book www.maglebymortuary.com. Originally published July 20, 2005