Local obituaries for Moapa Valley Mortuary
Sandra Ann Abrams
Jun 29, 2015
Sandy Abrams, 73, passed away June 29, 2015 at Highland Manor in Mesquite, NV. Sandy was born April 8, 1942 in Pottsville, PA to Mervin Diefenderfer and Paulyne Hudak. She married Ernest Smith Abrams III in Bayview, MD on June 13, 1959.
Sandy Abrams was born April 8, 1942 in Pottsville, PA, but grew up in Newark,...
Walter J. Smith
Jun 29, 2015
Walter J. Smith, 84, passed away June 29th, 2015 in Mesquite, NV. He was born September 9, 1930 to Gilbert Dover and Joyce Eve Forney Smith in Allen, OK. He married Barbara Jane Dailey at Long Beach, CA. on July 23, 2005.
Walter was known as a hard worker. He graduated from California Polytechnic State University at...
Jean Carstensen
Jun 27, 2015
Jean Lovey Carstensen, age 91, passed away June 27, 2015, at home in Mesquite, Nevada in the presence of her son and daughter. Jean was born July 7, 1923 in Jeanette, PA, to Joseph and Vera Witalis Levendusky.
As a young woman, Jean moved to California and lived at the Hollywood Studio Club where hopeful...
Constance May Baltz
Jun 21, 2015
Constance May Baltz, 64, of Mesquite, NV passed away on June 21, 2015. She was born to Orville and Martha Baltz on May 8, 1951 in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. The family invites friends and family to leave a memory or message on their "Guest Book" at www.virginvalleymortuary.com.
Christopher James Hartley
Jun 18, 2015
Christopher James Hartley, age 24, passed away Thursday, June 18th 2015 in Hinesville, Georgia. He was born June 28, 1990 in Cedar City, Utah to James Robert and Shannon Frehner Hartley.
Chris was raised in Cedar City, Las Vegas, and Scenic, Arizona where he played high school football and received his high school diploma. He...
Reta Baker
Jun 17, 2015
Reta Ione Deuschle Baker was born in Bison, South Dakota on December 24, 1932. She was the 6th child born to Lorence C and Gladys Mithcell Deuschle. She completed her education and graduated from Bison schools with the Class of 1953. Reta married Gordon Duane Baker in September of 1954 and together they had three children. She passed away,...
Abigayle Marie Robbins
Jun 17, 2015
Abigayle Marie Robbins, the infant child of Roy James Robbins and Melissa Marie Hendrix Burke, was born June 17, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After only a brief stay on this earth, she quietly slipped away minutes later.
Survivors include her parents, Roy and Melissa; grandmother, Tina Gonser of Logandale, NV: grandfather: Richard (Lori) Hendrix of Las...
Richard Robinson
Jun 16, 2015
Richard Arthur Robinson, age 77, has gone to heaven to join our beloved family members. Richard passed away peacefully at his home in Moapa, Nevada on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. He was born April 5, 1938 in Ogden, Utah to Elmer Smith and Ora Mae Willden Robinson. In September of 1955 he married Patricia Torrence in Fredonia, Arizona. They...
Mary Elizabeth Myers
Jun 11, 2015
Mary Elizabeth Myers, age 66, of Mesquite, Nevada, passed away Thursday, June 11, 2015 in her home surrounded by her loving family.
Mary was born in Devia, Tennessee to Carl and Janita Lowe Phillips on December 15, 1948. She met the love of her life Jerry Lee Myers. and later married him in Reno, Nevada...
Virginia Faye Minton
Jun 11, 2015
Mesquite, NV – Virginia Faye Minton, age 85, passed away Thursday June 11th, 2015 at her home. She was born May 27th, 1930 in Griffin, TX to A.D. Evans and Mary Mitchell Evans. She married Richard Baines Minton on June 18th, 1949 in Gillette, WY.
Faye grew up on a farm in East Texas and...
James Edward Ryan
Jun 7, 2015
Mesquite, NV - James Edward Ryan, 68 years old, passed away Sunday, June 7, 2015, peacefully at his home. He was born November 16, 1946, in Portland, Maine. He married Kathy Schell in Denver, Colorado on, August 24, 1968. Jim served our country in the US Army during the Vietnam War from 1966 - 1968. When he returned he...
Karen Ann Sodeman
Jun 5, 2015
Karen Sodeman, 44, passed away June 5, 2015 at her home in Mesquite, NV. She was born September 5, 1970 in Bellflower, CA to Larry Warren Sodeman and Barbara Janice Goodwin.
Karen spent her childhood in Bellflower, CA until she moved to Bullhead, AZ. She graduated from high school in Bullhead and attended Devry University for her...
Nancy Evelyn Jones
May 31, 2015
Nancy Evelyn Cooper Jones, age 55, passed away May 31, 2015 in St. George, Utah surrounded by her family and friends. She was born on April 29, 1960 in Richmond, California, adopted, and sealed to William "Bill" Heber Johnson and Venetta Mackley Cooper. After a long and difficult struggle with diabetes, she surrendered to complications from her condition.
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Barbara Ann Burrows
May 31, 2015
Barbara E. Burrows died May 31, 2015 of complications from COPD at her home in Mesquite, NV.
Born July 26, 1938 in Chicago, Barbara resided in Las Vegas from 1946 before moving to Mesquite upon retirement. Barbara worked as a hair stylist at Adah’s Hair Castle in Las Vegas for many years.
She...
Fred Porter
May 29, 2015
Mesquite, Nevada ~ Freddie L. Porter, Jr. 52, passed away Friday, May 29, 2015 at Mesa View Regional Medical Center due to complications from a massive stroke he suffered at home on May 2, 2015. He was born October 15, 1962 in Louisville, Kentucky to Florence Greene and Freddie L. Porter, Sr. He married the love of...
Jd Robinson
May 28, 2015
Janice Dean "JD" Robinson, age 53, died Wednesday, May 27, 2015 in Moapa, Nevada surrounded by family. She was born January 27, 1962 in Castro Valley, California to Robert Robinson and Marley Perkins Robinson.
J.D. lived most of her life in Moapa. She married Randy Dufour on September 26, 1981 in Moapa. They were married for 25...
Juniper Ally Walker
May 26, 2015
Our precious little Juniper Ally Walker slipped away peacefully on May 26, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. While only here for a short few months, she impacted many lives of those who loved her. She was born March 4, 2015 in Las Vegas to Aaron Michael and Heather Dawn Roundy Walker.
Shortly after her birth, she developed...
Bessie Margie Wilkinson
May 19, 2015
Bessie Margie Wilkinson, age 91, died Tuesday May 19, 2015 at her home in Overton, Nevada. She was born February 6, 1924 to Albert LeRoy and Margie Tanner Mott in Santaquin, Utah. On October 12, 1940 she married Glen Charles Wilkinson in Provo, Utah. He preceded her in death on January 1, 1992.
Bessie grew up in...
William Raymond Thompson
May 18, 2015
William Raymond "Bill" Thompson died on Monday, May 18, 2015, at the Beehive Homes in Mesquite, Nevada. Bill was born in Des Moines, on September 30, 1935, to Raymond and Harriet Thompson.
Bill grew up in Des Moines, graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1953, and Drake University in 1957. He married Mary Jane (Neal),...
Wanda Willow
May 16, 2015
Mesquite, NV - Wanda Francis Willow, 91, passed away May 16, 2015 at Highland Manor in Mesquite, NV. She was born March 22, 1924 in Corning, NY to Perry and Ethel (Morseman) Faulkner. She married Leon Willow Nov. 11, 1978 in Corning, NY.
Wanda spent much of her life in the area near Corning, NY....
