Funeral Blog

May 30, 1953 – April 1, 2025 Guy passed away peacefully at home after a two-year battle with lung cancer. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Frank Leonard Blatnick and Ruby Naurice Clements Blatnick. He grew up in a large family with many brothers...

May 24, 1932 to January 6, 2025 Dixie Gay Lloyd Drecksel (known as “Gay” during her youth, and "Lloyd" later in life) described herself as "curious, resourceful, and not a rule follower." Always uniquely wonderful and uniquely loved, Lloyd lived a full life with many chapters. Lloyd...

Richard Lynn Bingham, age 47, passed away on Friday, January 17th, 2025 due to heart complications. He was born on January 9th, 1978 in Salt Lake City, UT to Serena Asid Larida Bingham and Randy Lynn Bingham.Richard married his best friend, Catherine (Catie) Nichole Mellen...

We write these words in loving memory of Thelma Marie Labenski who passed away on December 16th, 2024. Thelma was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 27th, 1931. She was the oldest of 10 children. She left school when she was 16 to work as a...

Salt Lake City, UT - Frances Johnson Darger, age 99, passed away July 30, 2024 of natural causes in Salt Lake City. Frances was born Nov. 30, 1924 in Salt Lake, the third of five daughters born to Edna Evans and Frank Arthur Johnson. She was...

Talking about the inevitable is a scary thing for some people. The difficult conversation about death gets pushed to another time, another day then another year. Then before you know it, you are having that conversation with the funeral director instead of the person you...

What is natural death care? It seems to be a growing trend these days but what does it really mean? We have done our research and are sharing our new-found knowledge. Natural death care has, in fact, been around since like forever. Traditional embalming and preservation...

Death is a word most people run away from. We hide behind life things hoping we never have to use or hear the word. Death positive is teaching others that death will happen, eventually. Talking openly about and embracing death has been a huge movement...

We are in the profession of death. Whether you are choosing burial or cremation, we recognize that the funeral you plan with us has to be right the first time. We are passionate about our service to you. We are well-dressed funeral professionals, always there...

Most people plan a life surrounded by the people who are important to their life. It is rare that part of living is planning for an unexpected death, because that only happens to other people. When someone dies without warning there is always unresolved grief,...

We have advisors for everything from birthing midwives to financial planners, we even have life coaches to give us advice on how to best live our daily lives. So, it makes sense that we should also have an end-of-life planner. Death is almost always the...

Sacrifice is not a word you use when someone you love dies. You don’t want to sacrifice quality, service or facilities. It is hard enough to know that this person you knew and loved is no longer there in the flesh. You will never get...