|
Vance Gibson
Vance P. Gibson, 56, of Kaysville, died of heart failure,
March 13, 2005, at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.
He was born Jan. 16, 1949 in Payson, Utah County, Utah
to Roy E. and Emma Zoe Powell Gibson. He was educated in
Nephi schools and graduated from Juab High School in 1967.
While in high school, he participated in the band and was a
photographer for the Nebonian yearbook.
He attended Utah State University, where he played
trumpet in the Aggie Marching Band. In 1968, he was called
to serve as a missionary to Mexico for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He worked in Mexico City,
Acapulco, Ciudad Guzman, and Colima. He returned from Mexico
in 1970 and married his high school sweetheart, Sonya Sue
Sudweeks, Sept. 18, 1970 in the Manti LDS Temple.
He studied printing at Utah Technical College at Salt
Lake City and then went to work for his father at the Nephi
Times-News. He and his brother, Allan, bought the paper in
1976 when their father retired. Vance was the editor and
writer. He also did much of the typesetting and job
printing. He prided himself on his ability to rewrite and
edit copy, and to write tight headlines. He also was the
Juab County correspondent for The Salt Lake Tribune. He sold
his half of the business to his brother in 1993 and moved to
Logan, where he worked as a litho-camera operator for
Interactive Composition Corporation, a company that set type
for college textbooks. He later worked as a press operator
for Nielsen Printing Service in Preston, Idaho until kidney
failure forced him to quit work in 1995.
He held an advanced-class amateur-radio license from
the Federal Communications Commission (call sign KB7HY), and
spent many hours conversing by voice and by Morse code with
"ham" radio operators around the United States, throughout
Europe and Asia, and in Central and South America. He was
fascinated by computers and used them in his work and at
home. He taught classes in word processing, spreadsheet
analysis, database use, and programming to many students in
Juab School District's adult-education program. He also
liked to play chess and helped to start the Nephi Chess
Club.
He served his church in many positions: Sunday-School
teacher, elders-quorum instructor, seventies-quorum
instructor, gospel-doctrine teacher, and assistant stake
clerk. He served as executive secretary to Pres. Lowell D.
Curtis of the Nephi Utah Stake, as first counselor to Bishop
Lee Fowkes of the Nephi 2nd Ward, and as second counselor to
Bishop Russell G. Seamons of the Logan 23rd Ward. He was a
member of the Spencer Ward and the Kaysville South LDS
Stake's high-priest quorum.
He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Sonya; eight
children, Jason V. Gibson of Nephi; Angela G. Eckhardt of
Spanish Fork; Allison G. Kelly of Mapelton; Kathy G.
Thacker, of Eureka; Valerie G. Anderson of Tooele; Kevin R.
Gibson of Syracuse; Brian R. Gibson of Richmond; and Robert
D. Gibson, of Kaysville; two daughters-in-law, Angie D.
Gibson and Amber C. Gibson; four sons-in-law, Bill Eckhardt,
David Thacker, Dave Anderson, and Spencer Kelly; 15
grandchildren; a sister, Shirley R. Birrell of Ephraim; and
two brothers, Allan R. Gibson of Nephi and Daryl R. Gibson
of Las Vegas.
Funeral services will be held at 11 am, Thursday,
March 17, at the Main Street Chapel, 500 South Main,
Kaysville. Friends may call at the church on Wednesday from
6 to 8 pm; or on Thursday one hour prior to the services.
Burial will be at the Vine Bluff Cemetery in Nephi at 2
p.m.
Anna Millet
Anna Agness Duffin Millet, age 86, of Orem, Utah, died
March 5, 2005 in Nephi, Utah. She was born February 1, 1919
in Orem to William Henry Sr. and Mary Estella Pace Duffin.
She grew up in Orem and graduated from Lincoln High School.
She married Joseph Burr Millet on October 20, 1938 in the
Salt Lake Temple.
She lived in California, Idaho, and then returned to
Orem to raise her family and work as a real estate broker.
She had many callings in the LDS Church. She was a Primary
Worker, and served in the Relief Society and on the Stake
Primary Board. She loved to travel. She had been to the Holy
Land, Mexico and many U.S. states.
She is survived by her brother, Sidney A. Duffin of
Arlington, Texas; children, Jeanette M. (Lynn) Powell of
Nephi, Mary E. Millet and J. Brian Millet of Orem; 3
grandchildren; 10 great6-grandchildren; and 1
great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her
parents, brothers William Henry Jr. and LeRoy Isaac, husband
Joseph Burr Millet, and her children Joyce Ann, a son, and
Linda Joy.
Funeral services were held March 11, 2005 at the
Sharon 3rd Ward Chapel in Orem. Interment at the Provo City
Cemetery.
|
