Local obituaries for Moapa Valley Mortuary
Sharron Ann (Rhodes) Downing
Jan 28, 2019
Sharron Ann Downing, age 80, died Monday, January 28, 2019, in Mesquite, Nevada. She was born January 5, 1939, in Los Angeles, California to Leon and Beatrice Willie Baker Rhodes. On August 29, 1978, she married James Wain "Jim" Downing in LaPuente, California.
Sharron grew up in Southern California, she spent many years in the San Fernando...
Donna Lee Anderson
Jan 27, 2019
Donna Lee Anderson, age 64, died Sunday, January 27, 2019 peacefully at her home in Moapa, Nevada. She was born December 15, 1954 in Camden, New Jersey to John Zielinski and Carol Patricia York. She was raised by her mother, Carol and her husband Paul Kline.
Donna grew up in New Jersey. At the age of 21...
Roman Solis Cortez
Jan 21, 2019
Roman Solis Cortez, age 74, died Monday, January 21, 2019 at his home in Overton, Nevada. He was born July 7, 1944 in Eagle Pass, Texas to Moises S. Edwiges Soliz Cortez. On February 10, 2011 he married Karen Marie Clements in Overton, Nevada.
Roman grew up in Moapa Valley from a young age. He worked for...
Danny Mendoza
Jan 20, 2019
Daniel "Danny" Mariano Mendoza, age 79, passed away on Sunday, January 20, 2019 in Las Vegas. He was born May 8, 1939 in New York, New York to Mariano Cardenas Mendoza and Catherine Sedlak. On August 31, 1968 he married Yvonne Yvette Maxam in Corona, California and then one year later they were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple...
Kenneth Darrell Duke
Jan 16, 2019
Kenneth Darrell Duke passed away on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at the Nathan Adelson Hospice Home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born to Onas C. Duke and Virginnia Lucille (Heath) Duke on March 4, 1947 in Yuma, AZ.
Kenneth married the love of his live, Kathleen Patterson on March 19, 1981 in Las...
David Peter Stevenson
Jan 15, 2019
It is with great sadness that the family of David Peter Stevenson announces his passing on January 15, 2019 in Mesquite, NV, at the age of 80 years. David was born on December 23, 1938 in Kankakee, IL to Peter Alfred Stevenson and Genieve Marie Eimen. He married Janet Walker and had three daughters, and later married Norma Jean...
Paul Leroy Laymance
Jan 14, 2019
Paul Leroy Laymance, 85, passed away peacefully on January 14, 2019 in Mesquite, NV. Paul was born on May 28, 1933 in Mansfield, WA to Walter Eben Laymance and Ida Mae Lowe, Ida passed away early in Paul’s life, and Walter married Florence Mae Harvey, who adored and helped raise Paul. Paul married his sweetheart, Karen Lynn Friedrich, in...
Bette Lynne (Fortna) Cottrell
Jan 12, 2019
Bette Lynne Cottrell,72, passed away January 12, 2019 at Highland Manor in Mesquite, NV. She was born February 13, 1946 to Glenn E Fortna and Dorothy Nigh in Pontiac, Illinois. She married Richard Cottrell on July 5, 1964 in Pontiac, Illinois. She was raised in Pontiac, and graduated from Pontiac High School in 1964.
She and Richard...
Merlin James Lamb
Jan 12, 2019
Merlin James Lamb, age 83, died Saturday, January 12, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born May 15, 1935 in Caliente, Nevada to Philip Carlton and Thelma Shumway Lamb. On July 31, 1955 he married Janice France Garzand in Pioche, Nevada.
Merlin lived his life in Alamo, Nevada. He was a member of the Operating Engineers...
Wayne John Griffith
Jan 9, 2019
Wayne John Griffith, 61, died January 9, 2019, at Dixie Regional Medical Center in Saint George, Utah. He was born on September 28, 1957, in Brisbane, Australia, to Kevin Griffith and Leila Jean Maguire. Wayne married Carol Ann Harris on September 25, 2000, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
From the age of 15, Wayne worked in the timber...
Max Ray Peterson
Jan 7, 2019
Our beloved patriarch, Max Ray Peterson, age 93, died January 7th, 2019 surrounded by his family at his home in Alamo NV.
He was born December 6, 1925 in Garfield, UT to Niels Burk and Norma Gillette Peterson. He married his sweetheart and love of his life, Donna Marvella Youngdell on September 9, 1946 in West Jordan...
Hobson Dewitt Sewell
Jan 6, 2019
Hobson DeWitt Sewell, 78, passed away on January 6, 2019 in Littlefield, AZ. Hobson was born on October 18, 1940 in Chandler, AZ to Hobson Sewell Sr. and Rytha Dixon. Hobson served in the United States Army, and was a proud veteran. Hobson’s cremated remains will be scattered at a place he loved.
Senaida V. Estrada
Jan 6, 2019
Senaida V. Estrada
Senaida V. Estrada, age 79, died Sunday, January 6, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada at her daughters home surrounded by family. She was born April 18, 1939 in Runge, Texas to Santiago and Manuela Leal Villarreal. On April 12, 1955 she married Juan Estrada in Logandale, Nevada. He preceded her in death on April...
Jason Mathias Brill
Jan 5, 2019
Jason Mathias Brill, age 22, passed away Saturday, January 5, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada after suffering through cancer. He was born October 30, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Clinton Douglas and Julie Ann Jesse Brill.
Jason grew up in Moapa Valley where he graduated from Moapa Valley High School. He enjoyed 4-H, Boy Scouts and...
George K. Rogers
Jan 4, 2019
George Kenneth Rogers, 91, passed away on January 4, 2019 in Littlefield, AZ. George was born in Bozeman, MT on March 12, 1927 to Goodlet Rogers and Lula McAllister. He married Elizabeth Ann King on March 27, 1948 in Butte, MT, and they shared a happy marriage until her passing on April 24, 1995.
George was a...
Paul F Walker
Jan 2, 2019
Paul Walker, 88, passed away on January 2, 2019 at Highland Manor, in Mesquite, NV. He was born on February 27, 1931 in Los Angeles, CA to Paul S. Walker and Dorothy Sarah (Erickson) Walker. He married Harriet Crane Wilson on January 6, 1998 in Las Vegas, NV.
Paul was raised in California and New Jersey. He...
William Hugh Wolfe
2019
William Hugh Wolfe (Bill) passed away at his home surrounded by his family on April 3, 2019.
Bill was born on May 29, 1941 to Morton and Ellen Wolfe in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Bill married his friend and love of his life Roma Madsen Wolfe on June 16, 1964. They had five children together: William, David, Wende, Travis,...
Florene May Brumaghin
Dec 31, 2018
Florene May Brumaghin, 79, passed away on December 31, 2018 in Mesquite, NV. She was born on February 8, 1939, in Butte, Montana to Oral and Evelyn Sanders.
Florene loved playing Bingo.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years; Frank J. Brumaghin, Jr, children; Virginia Blouin of Missoula, MT; Enrique Brumaghin of Watkins,...
Tyler James Centini
Dec 30, 2018
Tyler James Centini was born Dec. 23, 1982, to Michael James Centini & Elaine Callahan Centini. Our beloved son passed away Dec. 30, 2018.
He married Staci Baker Centini on May 5, 2005, in the Salt Lake Temple (later divorced) . They had two children, Samuel James Centini age 12 & Emma Lin Centini...
Lillian Loretta (Smith) Price
Dec 28, 2018
Lily Price
Lillian Loretta "Lily" Price, age 62, died Thursday Friday, December 28, 2018 at her home in Overton, Nevada. She was born September 26, 1956 in Everett, Washington to Melvin and Elsie Mildred Murphy Smith. On May 19, 1975 she married John Allen Price in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Lily grew up in Las Vegas....
