Local obituaries for Moapa Valley Mortuary
Francis Andrew Jones
Sep 24, 2020
Francis Andrew Jones passed away 09/24/2020 in Mesquite,NV. He was born 10/26/1936 in Wyo. to James and Hattie Jones. His wife is Thelma S. Jones of Mesquite, NV. No services have been planned at this time.
Linda Marie Walker
Sep 19, 2020
Linda Marie Walker, age 80, our one of a kind, loving mother, sister and friend to many, passed away Saturday, September 19, 2020 at her home in Mesquite NV, surrounded by her two adoring children.
Linda was born on March 17, 1940 to James M. and Myrle S. Walker in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from...
Max Edwin Bunnell
Sep 16, 2020
Max Edwin Bunnell, 93, passed away on September 16, 2020 in St. George, UT. Max was born on March 8, 1927 in Salt Lake City, UT to Daniel Edwin Bunnell and Mattie Mae Ellrich. He married Julia Elizabeth Lewis on June 2, 1948 in the Salt Lake Temple, and they enjoyed their seventy-two years of marriage together until her...
Manny Alonzo Mora
Sep 14, 2020
Manuel Alonzo Mora, 30, passed away in Johnson County, AR on September 14, 2020. Manuel was born on April 23, 1990 in Bakersfield, CA to Manuel Salvador Mora and Raquel Gonzales. Manuel’s family moved to Logandale, NV three years later, and Manuel was raised in Moapa Valley. He graduated from Moapa Valley High School, where he played football and...
Roger Paice Matheson
Sep 14, 2020
Roger Paice Matheson, age 62, slipped away peacefully at his son’s home in Henderson, Nevada surrounded by family on Monday, September 14, 2020. He was born June 14, 1958 in Cedar City, Utah to Cleon Jones Matheson and Vanna Vee Paice. On November 4, 1978 he married Marcelee Slack in Cedar City.
Roger lived his early years...
Dan Ray Whicker
Sep 13, 2020
Dan Ray Whicker, age 64, died Sunday, September 13, 2020 surrounded by family in Mesquite, Nevada. He was born June 16, 1956 in Fillmore, Utah to Lloyd Grant and Christie Warner Whicker. On October 9, 1993 he married Alene Sue Bleifer in Mesquite, Nevada. Dan lived most of his life in Fillmore where he worked for the Pictsweet Mushroom...
Opal Marie (Snyder) Hern
Sep 12, 2020
Opal Marie Hern, 98, left this life to live with her Heavenly Father on September 12, 2020 in Mesquite, Nevada. She was the youngest daughter of Jack Snyder and Lilian (Amos) Snyder. Opal married her childhood sweetheart, Ralph Hern, December 24, 1941 and they were together for 56 years until his passing on July 30, 1997. She was also...
Harold Edwin Wittwer
Sep 10, 2020
Harold E. Wittwer
Harold Edwin Wittwer, age 84, died September 10, 2020 in Cedar City, Utah. He was born February 13, 1936 in Bunkerville, Nevada to Merl Harmon and Elizabeth "Aunt Lib" Leavitt Wittwer. On May 30, 1956 he married Annita Russell in the St. George LDS Temple. She preceded him in death on October 17, 2012....
Tuma Tuitasi
Sep 9, 2020
Tuma Tuitasi passed on September 9, 2020, survived by his wife and his son, Xavier, and his wife, Janna, and his brother, Siaveave Tuitasi, and his family members. He is joining his late sister, Filipine Tuitasi Malauulu in heaven.
Aloha.
John William Hall
Sep 9, 2020
John William Hall, age 71, died Wednesday, September 9, 2020 in Mesquite, Nevada. He was born August 18, 1949 in Eugene, Oregon to William Robert and Elvy Elizabeth Hall. On November 17, 1990 he married Randy Lynn Witt in Reno, Nevada.
John grew up in the Sacramento, California area. He had a short stint in the US...
Ward Reed Taylor
Sep 8, 2020
Ward Reed Taylor, 81, peacefully passed from mortality surrounded by his family on September 8, 2020 in Henderson, NV. He was a humble man possessed of many qualities and talents that resulted in a lifetime of accomplishments. He would say his crowning achievement was his marriage to his life-long love, Barbara Jean Anderson in the Manti, UT Temple on...
Richard "Robi" Ronald Robidoux
Sep 5, 2020
Richard R. “Robi” Robidoux passed away at the Highland Manor Skilled Nursing Facility on September 5, 2020 at the age of 90. For the past four years, the Highland Manor was his home and he was well cared for and loved by the staff. In addition to their support, Robi had an advocate and guardian angel in his friend...
Gerry Bakels
Sep 4, 2020
Our dear father, husband, brother, uncle, son, Gerry Bakels, moved peacefully into the arms of God on September 4th with his beloved wife Nell by his side. He leaves a legacy of deep faith in God, a life of great integrity, playful happiness, and a beautiful voice full of songs and stories. Gerry (Geert) was from the Netherlands, but...
Beatriz Acosta
Sep 4, 2020
Beatriz Acosta, 89, passed away on September 4, 2020 in Overton, NV. Beatriz was born on July 29, 1931 in Terlingua, TX to Jesus Ramirez and Josefina Pizarro. Beatriz was raised on the Texas/Mexico border, living with family members on both sides. She grew very close to her father, who worked as a rancher for many years in the...
Carol Hardy Reber
Sep 2, 2020
Carol Hardy Reber (90) passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on September 2, 2020 in Mesquite, Nevada. She was born September 1, 1930 in St. George, Utah to Mark and Delilah Tobler Hardy. She married Robert DeMurren Reber in the St. George Temple on September 24, 1949.
As a lifetime resident of Mesquite, Carol was a...
Joy Ray Riggs
Aug 31, 2020
Joy R. Riggs, 50, passed away on August 31, 2020 in her home in Overton, NV surrounded by her loved ones. Joy was born on December 13, 1969 in Las Vegas, NV to Thurman Ray Jones and Mary Frances Elliott. She was the youngest child, and looked up to her older brother and sister. Shortly after graduating from high...
Gloria Ann (Rice) Bender
Aug 30, 2020
Gloria Ann Bender, age 69, died Sunday, August 30, 2020 in Mesquite, Nevada. She was born October 18, 1950 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Benjamin Lyle and Dorothy Grace Rice. At a young age her family moved to Inglewood, California where she spent her formative years. She raised her two children in Utah after moving there in 1978. There she...
Barry B Brumbaugh
Aug 30, 2020
Barry B. Brumbaugh, age 85, died Sunday, August 30, 2020 at his home in Mesquite, Nevada. He was born October 12, 1934 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania to Edgar Knight and Hortense Williams Brumbaugh. On October 1, 1998 he married Ann Catherine Smith in Las Vegas, Nevada, and were together for 28 years. Barry grew up in Colorado. In his...
Harold Raymond Ackley
Aug 29, 2020
Harold Raymond Ackley, age 85, died Saturday, August 29, 2020 at his home in Mesquite, Nevada. He was born May 26, 1935 in Middletown, Illinois to Clyde and Bernadine Louise Steinhour Ackley. On August 23, 1961 he married JoAnn Louise Martin in Crown Point, Indiana.
Harold grew up in Middletown and then he moved to the suburbs...
Susan Carol (Brown) Bennett
Aug 28, 2020
Susan Carol Brown Bennett passed away on August 28, 2020 after a long illness. Born to Robert E. Brown and Helen Jeppesen Brown, Susan attended Ogden High School, earned an associate degree from Weber State College, and a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University in Theater, Journalism and English. In 1961, she married Sherman Bennett in the Salt Lake...
