Local obituaries for Moapa Valley Mortuary
Desiderio "D.C." Garcia
Sep 19, 2012
D.C. Garcia
Desiderio Chavez "D.C." Garcia, age 85, died September 19, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born August 6, 1927 to Antonio and Maria Chavez Garcia. On April 1, 1948 he married Angela Sanchez in Texas. She preceded him in death on April 3, 2002. D.C. grew up in Texas. As a young man, he...
Ada Brooks
Sep 18, 2012
Ada Ann Brooks
Ada Ann Brooks, age 80, passed away Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born November 24, 1931 in St. George, Utah to Woodruff and Zelma Leavitt. She married Alvin Alan Brooks on August 1, 1951 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He preceded her in death on April 10,...
Grant Watkins
Sep 15, 2012
Herbert Grant Watkins, age 78, died Saturday, September 15, 2012 in St. George, Utah surrounded by his family. He was born January 15, 1934 in Provo, Utah to Ira Oray and Ida Jane Snyder Watkins. On February 28, 1958 he married Marcia Dee Reynolds in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Grant grew up in Provo, Utah. He raised his...
David Andrew Kotalion
Sep 13, 2012
David Andrew Kotalion, of Mesquite, Nevada, passed away quietly on Thursday, September 13, 2012, after a long illness. He was born on April 26, 1958 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Mathias and Katharina Seller Kotalion.
He was raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and attended schools there. He moved to Las Vegas in 1978, to be close to his brother,...
Jason Graves
Sep 12, 2012
Jason William Graves, age 45, died Wednesday, September 12, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born July 26, 1967 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Rodney Carl and Dixie Dee Anderson Graves. On (Date) he married Sherida Louise Cardwell in Midvale, Utah. She preceded him in death on November ??, 2000. Jason grew up in the Salt Lake...
Glynn Edward Bricker
Sep 10, 2012
Glynn Edward Bricker, age 64, died Monday, September 10, 2012 in Saint George, Utah. He was born April 8, 1948 in Rensaler, Indiana to Harry Thomas and Dana Marie Hurley. He married Tina Joy Wharton on October 15, 2010 in Kingman, Arizona.
He served his country during the Vietnam Conflict in the United States Army.
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Wanda Jean Overy
Sep 7, 2012
Wanda Jean Overy, 81, died Friday July 7, 2012 at Mesa View Hospital in Mesquite, NV.
Wanda was born October 7, 1930 in Pontiac, MI to Roy Walter and Dessie Ozalia Weddell Sharpley. She married Thomas Donald Overy on July 17, 1954.
She is survived by her husband and no services are planned at this...
Noel Chamberlain
Sep 6, 2012
Noel Lewis Chamberlain, age 77, died Thursday, September 6, 2012 in Mesquite, Nevada. She was born December 25, 1934 in Kanab, Utah to Adolphia Lewis and Leona Rider. Noel and her husband Kelton were sealed in the St. George Temple, June 5, 1956.
Noel loved sewing, gardening, cooking, reading, doing crafts, and her flowers. She served faithfully...
Ruby Mae Bartholomew
Sep 6, 2012
Hudson, Wyoming - Ruby Mae Bartholomew, 86, passed away Thursday September 6th in Mesquite Nevada. She was born September 4th 1926 in a coal mining camp near Oak Creek, Colorado. She graduated from high school in Fredrick, Colorado in 1944 and from the Colorado State College of Education now known as the University of Northern Colorado in 1957.
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Dixie L. Oldfather
Sep 5, 2012
Mesquite, NV- Dixie L. Oldfather, 76, passed away Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born February 10, 1936 in Pima, Arizona to John William Johnson and Madeline Merrill. She shared her life with John Price for the best part of twenty seven years.
Dixie was raised in Miami, Arizona and...
Tommy Monk
Sep 4, 2012
Tommy Dean Monk, age 71, passed away Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at his home in Logandale, Nevada after a long battle with brain cancer. Tommy was born on December 20, 1940 in Roswell, New Mexico to William Lester Monk and Winnie Gladys Essary. He married Linda VanPelt on November 25, 1965 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1971 they moved...
Stanley Williams
Aug 28, 2012
Stanley Clark Williams of Mesquite, Nevada passed away at home Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at the age of 93 with family and friends at his bedside.
He was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, he was one of eight children. He was a carpenter by trade and a veteran. Stan and wife Hazel, married in 1939. He...
Thomas "Doug" Marion Douglas
Aug 24, 2012
Thomas "Doug" Marion Douglas, 76 passed away August 24, 2012, at his home in Mesquite, NV. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January 31, 1936, to Orville Douglas and Ruby Chambers. He married Glenda Ann Houston on June 13, 1954 in Nevada, Missouri.
Thomas graduated from Miami, Oklahoma High School and then attended college at...
Lamar Glen Campbell
Aug 19, 2012
Lamar Glen Campbell of Mesquite, NV passed away peacefully with family by his side on August 18, 2012. He was born November 24, 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Melvin and Ivy Campbell. On December 11, 1948 he married Patricia Robinson.
He is survived by his loving wife and four children; Jamison (Leslie), Dru (Anton), Paula...
Jean Tober
Aug 16, 2012
Jean Tober, age 75, died Friday, August 16, 2012 in Mesquite, Nevada. She was born September 9, 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio to Nicholas and Ida Hanna.
Jean lived in several different places throughout her lifetime, but chose to spend her last 8 years in Mesquite, Nevada. It was in Mesquite that she found a great love for...
Mary Beth Piper
Aug 14, 2012
Mary Beth Piper, age 76, died Tuesday, August 14, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born March 21, 1936 in Rifle, Colorado to Hayden and Mamie Henry Jones. She married Carl T. Piper June 13, 1956 in Leadville, Colorado. Mary Beth grew up in Rifle, Colorado and graduated from Rifle Union High School in the class of 1954....
Paul Robbins
Aug 12, 2012
Paul Asher Robbins, age 90, died Sunday, August 12, 2012 peacefully in Mesquite, Nevada. He was born January 28, 1922 in Clayville, Virginia to Thomas and Nina Bellows Robbins. On December 1, 1945 he married Charlotte Mary Whartnaby in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul grew up in Buckingham, PA. He served in the US Navy during WWII on a minesweeper ship...
Georgia Butcher
Aug 11, 2012
Georgia Butcher
Georgia Frandsen Butcher, born June 26, 1940 to George Howard and Delta Fletcher in Junction, Utah. At approximately nine months of age, her family moved to McGill, Nevada. The oldest of two children, her brother Harvey came seven years after her. Georgia attended grade school in McGill and high school in Ely, NV. At twenty...
Virginia Mae Kellar
Aug 11, 2012
Virginia Kellar, age 46, died August 11, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born February 8, 1966 in Detroit, Michigan to Clarence Herbert and Betty Lou Estes Kellar. Virginia grew up in Frasier and Detroit, Michigan. She has lived in Moapa for the last eighteen years. She enjoyed playing cards, reading, listening to music and serving in the...
Jackson H. Chamberlain
Aug 10, 2012
Jackson H. Chamberlain, age 85, passed away at his home due to brain tumors, on Friday, August 10, 2012, in Mesquite, NV. Jack was born April 26, 1927 to Orson and Josie Hallett Chamberlain in Robertson, WY. On July 17, 1969, he married Ruth Burgener in Heber City, UT.
Jack's family moved to Fort Bridger, WY when...
