Mourning the Passing of Friends: Forthcoming Funeral Services

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller

Forthcoming funeral services are planned for the following friends from our community. Complete versions of these obituaries may also be found in The Payson Chronicle.

Afton Shirlene Depew Maurin

Afton Shirlene Depew Maurin, 89, passed away November 23, 2019. 

She was born August 2, 1930 in Payson, Utah to Max Allen and Rela Belle Cloward Depew. She married Charles Henry Maurin on December 2, 1948 and was later sealed in the Manti LDS Temple on February 29, 1964 for time and all eternity.

Dad preceded her in death April 21, 2011. 

Afton was an intelligent, compassionate, caring, loving, and very hardworking mother. There wasn’t anything she couldn’t accomplish well.

She attended Weber State Nursing program and graduated September 1, 1977. She worked for Mountain View Hospital in the emergency room as the E.R. supervisor for 40 years. 

She excelled in her career and was a well respected nurse. While raising her family and being a wonderful wife, mother, cherished grandma and a loving and kind granny.

Mom spent 3 months in Saudi Arabia working at the King Fahad Hospital, training Dr.’s and nurses while serving and caring for the many people there.

She soon retired to take care of her loving father who battled Alzheimer’s disease for many years.

Afton was an outdoor girl. She loved working side by side with her husband, Charlie on their cattle ranch, which they took great pride in. She loved her family, as well as gardening in her yard. Mom was a great seamstress. She was optimistic and found beauty in everything. 

She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served in many capacities. 

She is survived by her three children; Karen (Lynn) Clayson of Santaquin, Gary (Val) Maurin of Lehi, and Michelle (Jeff) Girot of Payson. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles of 63 years, Dennis Maurin (Son), Ron Maurin (Son), Anthony Maurin (Grandson), her loving parents Max and Rela, Renee Depew Tibbs (Sister), and Kenneth Depew (Brother). 

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 11 a.m. at the West Mountain Fourth Ward LDS church, 5237 West 10400 South, Payson, Utah. A visitation will be held prior to service from 9-10:45 a.m. at the church.

We would like to thank our Fourth Ward family, many neighbors and friends who were there for mom and didn’t forget her in her final years, who took time to visit and fill her life with joy and even lift her spirits at times. A special THANK YOU to Dr. Garry Miller, Paige Steele and Holly Gardner, who cared for mom as if it were their own mother with love, compassion, and respect until the very end. We love and appreciate you more that you will ever know. THANK YOU, you are angels on earth.

Mourning the Passing of Friends: Forthcoming Funeral Services

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller

Forthcoming funeral services are planned for the following friends from our community. Complete versions of these obituaries may also be found in The Payson Chronicle.

Marian Wilson

On the morning of November 21, 2019 after a long battle with illness our loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend Marian Wilson passed away.  A long awaited welcome home party began in heaven with so many loved ones.

Marian Caras Wilson was born June 30th, 1932 the seventh of ten children of Angel and Mary Caras of Benjamin, Utah.  She spent her early youth and childhood weeding, thinning and hoeing beets on her father's sugar beet farm.  She attended schools in Benjamin, Lake Shore and Spanish Fork.  She was blessed with a beautiful singing voice that earned her the lead in the high school operettas.

After graduation, she took a job at the phone company and soon met the love of her life, Sherol Thomas Wilson.  The two were soon married and she took on her new and most cherished career, that of mother.  Being a mother to four gave her the opportunity to develop her other talents.  She taught craft classes, sang with her sisters at firesides, hosted surprise parties for any occasion, served as homeroom mother, chaired band fund raisers, wrote an article weekly for the local paper, served as PTA president more times than she could count, was a gypsy fortune teller at the Halloween nights at school and still had time to put dinner on the table.  She was the first adult advisor to the youth who started the Payson Community Theater and served in this capacity for five years.  She even took a part or two in the shows.  Her greatest pride was in the four children that she and Sherol raised together.  She also took a real sense of pride in her home and her rose garden.  

She is survived by her daughter Nancy (Kenneth) Head of Washington Utah, Bart (Teresa) Wilson of Payson, Susan (Curt) Lester of Payson, 10 grandchildren, three great grandchildren, her husband of almost 66 years and two younger siblings.  She was preceded in death by a son Billy Wilson, both her parents and seven of her siblings.  We take great comfort in the fact that she is having a long awaited reunion with them even as we begin to miss her here.  

The family wishes to thank the staff of Canyon Hospice, especially Tom, Brianna, Bailey, Dawn Jones, Mary Louise and Amanda to name a few.  WE also want to recognize the young people of the Treasured moments company for their service to our mother as well as dad.  We could not have done any of this without the help and continued support of our many extended family, Aunt Elayne, and our West Mountain Fourth Ward family.  

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 11 a.m. at the West Mountain 4^th Ward Church, 5237 West 10400 South, Payson. A viewing will be held on Monday, November 25, 2019 from 6 - 8 p.m. at Walker Funeral Home, 587 South 100 West, Payson. An additional viewing will be held on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the West Mountain 4^th Ward Church. Interment will be at the Payson City Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to www.walkerobits.com

Public Invited to Share Use Ideas at November 21 Trail Planning Meeting

The South Utah County Trails & Forebay Trails meeting scheduled for Thursday will give residents the opportunity to share their hopes for uses of City-owned canyon property, according to Payson Planner Jill Spencer.

“Payson City owns about 500 acres of property in Payson Canyon, that’s just up from Gladstan Golf Course,” she said during the November 6 Payson City Council meeting. “We are working with the National Park Service as well as a group of BYU students to create a management plan for that 500 acres.  And so we are soliciting feedback from the community of what uses they would like to see on that property- what they would like to use it for.”

Much of the property is comprised of steep slopes, Ms Spencer explained, namely hillsides, the foothills- areas that the city would like to protect.  But there are some areas that could accommodate some varied land uses, she added.

The open house, which runs from 5-7 PM, will take place in the City Center Banquet Hall, located at 439 West Utah Avenue, Payson.

Mourning the Passing of Friends: Forthcoming Funeral Services

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller

Forthcoming funeral services are planned for the following friends from our community. Complete versions of these obituaries may also be found in The Payson Chronicle.

HELEN GALBRAITH

Helen Yoshie Galbraith passed away November 14th, 2019, in Provo Utah at the age of 83.

She is survived by her children: Herb of Maui, HI, Leila (Joe) of Nephi, UT, Reo (Dawn) of Provo, UT,  Timothy of Maui, HI, Darren of Nephi, UT, Kaiana (Trestan & Savannah) of Phoenix, AZ, Kalani (Paige) of Spanish Fork, UT, sisters Ginger Williams of Clackamas, OR and Phyllis Dubois of Maui, HI, nineteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband Garold Galbraith, son Joel Dee, granddaughter Natasha and grandson Jeremy Jacobsen.

Viewing will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday November 19, 2019, with funeral services following at 12:00 p.m. at Nelson Family Mortuary 4780 N. University Avenue Provo, UT. Interment will be at Payson City Cemetery.

To express condolences, visit www.NelsonMortuary.com.

The Peteetneet Story

Local historian L. Dee Stevenson holds up a copy of his book, “The Payson Story in Words and Pictures,” in the Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center foyer, the setting for Tuesday’s Night at the Museum, an event hosted by Payson American Legion Post 48. Mr Stevenson told of the historical relevance of the building and significance of the artifacts showcased throughout it before opening the gallery doors for an evening tour. More to come in next week’s edition of The Payson Chronicle.

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