Utah Obituaries
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 01/08/1887
Louisa Ward Higginbotham (1808-1887) VA/UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 01/05/1889
Simon Shelby Higginbotham (1839-1889) VA/UT
The Standard 02/03/1903
Robert Higginbotham (1903-1903) UT
Davis County Clipper 03/25/1910
Mary Elizabeth Shupe Higginbotham (1848-1910) IA/UT
(Legal notice published 05/14/1914)
Ogden City Evening Standard 12/23/1910
Ireta Higginbotham (1892-1910) UT
The Evening Standard 10/09/1911
Francis Davis Higginbotham Sr. (1848-1911) UT
Francis Davis Higginbotham, Sr. aged 63 years, a pioneer merchant of Utah, scion
of a large family, many members of which are prominent in this state, died at 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Louise M.
Woodman, 151 Seventh East street, Salt Lake, as a result of heart trouble
induced by a recent attack of pneumonia. Mr. Higginbotham has been ill with
pneumonia for the past six weeks and it was believed that he had entirely
recovered from the sickness.
Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning at the residence of
Mrs. Woodman. The body will be brought to Ogden the same day on the 12 o'clock
noon train, and Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock funeral services will be held in
the Fourth ward meeting house at Ogden. Interment will be in the Ogden City
cemetery,
Mr. Higginbotham is survived by a widow, Elizabeth; sons and daughters, Frank
D., Jr., Mrs. Louisa M. Woodman and Letitia Thornberg, all of Salt Lake; Simon
H. of Preston, Ida.; Earl E. of Salt Lake; Mrs. Rosalia Moore of Los Angeles,
Cal. There is one sister survivor, Mrs. D. M. Peery of Ogden, and fourteen
grandchildren.
Mr. Higginbotham was born in Nauvoo, Ill., March 24, 1848, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William T. Higginbotham, were staunch members of the Mormon church in
the early days. While Mr. Higginbotham was still a young man, his parents and
their four children, Nancy, Simon S., Elizabeth, Letitia and himself, removed to
Burkes Garden, Va.
It was there that Nacy Higginbotham met and married David H. Peery, whom she
converted to the Mormon faith. William E. Higginbotham and Mrs. David H. Peery
died during the sojourn of the family in Burkes Garden. Shortly afterward, Mrs.
Louise Ward Higginbotham, the elder, and her three children moved westward
across the plains, arriving in this valley with the later pioneers who followed
Brigham Young, in the year 1864. David H. Peery came with them and married his
former wife's sister, Elizabeth Letitia, one year later.
During the pilgrimage of the party across the plains, frequent attacks by
Indians were met and repulsed. Mr. Higginbotham displayed unusual courage and
undertaking, earning the confidence and love of all. In 1868, after his arrival
in Utah, Mr. Higginbotham married Elizabeth A. Rawson, Daughter of Daniel H.
Rawson, one of the original band of pioneers, who distinguished himself as a
member of the Mormon battalion. The marriage took place in Ogden, where the
Higginbotham family had taken up residence after visiting in Provo and the small
village of Cottonwood, respectively.
Mr. Higginbotham was a leading merchant of Ogden in the days when that city was
changing from a small town to a ....city. He was associated closely with his
brother-in-law, David H. Peery, one of the most prominent business men of Ogden,
during his life. Mrs. Elizabeth Letitia Peery is the mother of Henry, Joseph,
Horace, Harold Peery and Mrs. Louise Patterson of Chicago, Frank, Lewis, and
Harmon Peery and two infant daughters, now dead.
The Ogden City Evening Standard 03/10/1913
Frances Louise "Frankie" Higginbotham (1906-1913) UT
The Ogden Examiner 05/02/1915
Ada Higginbotham (ca1916-1918) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 04/15/1916
Frances Dee Higginbotham (1914-1916) UT
The Ogden Standard 03/19/1918
Lester Jefferson Higginbotham (1875-1919) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 05/06/1924
Mary Elizabeth Higginbotham Cortez (1869-1924) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 02/14/1927
Margaretha Easterday Higginbotham (1846-1927) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 02/16/1927
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 07/09/1931
Joseph Smith Higginbotham (1873-1931) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 08/10/1931
Elvera Ohlson Higginbotham (1878-1931) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 08/15/1933
Louise Higginbotham (1904-1933) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 05/13/1936
Elizabeth Ann Rawson Higginbotham (1853-1936) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 12/13/1938
Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham Peery (1846-1938) IL/UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 12/13/1938
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 01/27/1940
David Reese Higginbotham (1881-1940) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 06/17/1940
John Logan Higginbottom (1882-1940) OH/UT
Mary Olsen Higginbottom (ca1903-1940) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 06/21/1940
The Ogden Standard Examiner 12/26/1940
Simon Harold Higginbotham (1881-1940) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 08/27/1941
Francis David Higginbotham (1869-1941) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 10/27/1941
Elias Earl Higginbotham (1890-1941) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 04/17-20/1942
John Lewis Higginbotham (1871-1942) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 07/10/1944
Ada May Smith Higginbotham (1875-1944) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 03/24/1945
Geneva Alwilda Marsh Higginbotham (1869-1945) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 10/11/1945
Francis Easterday Higginbotham (1869-1945) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 03/18/1948
Laura Mary Jacobsen Higginbotham (1879-1948) Denmark/UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 04/08/1948
Simon Shelby Higginbotham (1867-1948) UT/CA
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 01/24/1949
Elmer Lester Higginbotham (1901-1949) UT/CA
The Salt Lake Tribune 03/18/1951
Belle Robson Heginbotham (ca1869-1951) UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 03/27/1951
Thomas Carnahan Higginbotham (1885-1951) UT
Brainerd (MN) Daily Dispatch 11/08/1951
Vern Higginbotham (ca1923-1951) MI/UT
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 10/09/1958
Katherine Louise Higginbotham (1880-1958) UT/CA
Ogden Standard-Examiner 04/22/1962
Joseph Leslie Higginbotham (1897-1967) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 06/12/1962
David Henry Higginbotham (1897-1962) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 10/20/1962
Orland Higginbotham (1890-1962) UT/ID
The Ogden Standard-Examiner 05/22/1963
Edythe Shields Higginbotham (1899-1963) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 10/05/1965
Leah Lant Higginbotham (1884-1965) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 01/05-06/1969
June Vilate Higginbotham Oxnam (1900-1969) UT/WA
The Salt Lake Tribune 08/16/1972
Bessie Ethel Rees Higginbotham (1895-1972) UT/KY
Ogden Standard-Examiner 09/07/1972
Margaret Dee Higginbotham (1880-1972) UT
The (Idaho Falls, ID) Post-Register 10/05/1973
Frances Marion Higginbotham Hawkes (1884-1973) UT/ID
The Salt Lake Tribune 01/14/1974
Florence Elizabeth Fowler Higginbotham (188601974) UT
The Salt Lake Tribune 05/14/1974
Douglas Earl Higginbotham (????-1974) UT
Ogden Standard-Examiner 01/18/1976
Carl O. Higginbotham (1904-1976) UT/WA
Deseret News 7/25/2004
Faye Leona Sisam Higginbotham (1925-2004) UT
Faye Leona
Sisam Higginbotham, age 79, died July 23, 2004 in Salt Lake City after a long
illness.
Born February 26, 1925 in Midvale, Utah to Amil A. and Elesta M. Robertson Sisam.
Married Chester Lee Higginbotham October 28, 1968 in Elko, Nevada. She was a
member of the LDS Church and was a brave and courageous mother, grandmother,
great-grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and friend to all. We will miss her
dearly.
Faye is survived by her daughter, Teresa Garcia; granddaughter, Nicholle Chacon,
two great-grandchildren; brother, Ronald (Donna) Sisam, Granger, Utah; sisters,
Connie (Charles) Crossen, Boise, Idaho, Donna Mix, Salt Lake City, Shirley
(Dennis) Barker, No. Ogden, Carole Carrasco Salt Lake City, and Jan Gray, Salt
Lake City.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 2 p.m. at Lake Hills
Memorial Mortuary. Friends may call Tuesday, July 27, 2004 between 6-8 p.m. and
one hour prior to service.
Emery County Progress 08/03/2004
Cassie Higginbotham (1983-2004) UT
WELLINGTON-Cassie Amber Higginbotham, age 21, passed away July 31, 2004 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was born May 6, 1983 in Salt Lake City, the daughter of Ray and Annette Winder.
Cassie was above all, a free spirit who loved angels. She would spend every spare minute in the Manti LaSal Mountains, which she dearly loved. More that anything, however, she loved her two little angels Daileny and Tailey. She was a friend to everyone she met and will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
Cassie is survived by her two daughters, Daileny and Tailey, parents Randy and Annette Winder of Wellington and sisters; Hollie and Dan Peterson, Carrie Higginbotham, Varity and Matt Pettus, Anna and Matt Thomas and Megan and Victor Dunegan, grandmother Stella Reid and many nephews whom she dearly loved.
Funeral services will be held Wed. Aug. 4, 2004 at 11 a.m. at Fausett Mortuary in Castle Dale where friends may call one hour prior to services. Burial will be in the Castle Dale Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Fausett Mortuary or Zions Bank for the care of her two little daughters would be much appreciated.
Standard-Examiner 07/28/2005.
Virginia Kelley Higginbotham (1922-2005) WV/UT
Virginia Higginbotham passed away July 24, 2005, in St.
George, Utah.
She was born to James and Mary Kelly on November 28, 1922 in Harrison County,
West Virginia. She married Jesse A. Higginbotham on November 5, 1939 in
Charleston, WV. She was reared and educated in Charleston WV. She worked most
recently at Defense Depot Ogden until 1974, at which time she retired. She also
worked at the Bon Marche. Virginia has been living at Legacy House in St.
George, Utah since February 2004. Mom loved to dance. She and Dad belonged to
the ELKS, Eagles, and Alta Metra Dance Club. Her favorite dance to show the
great grandkids was the jitter bug. They also belonged to the Good Sam Club and
Footprinters Assn. Mom loved boating, bowling, and at one time golf.
Virginia is survived by her daughter, Lee Hansen and her husband Mark; two
grandchildren, Scott Hansen and Curtis (Marie) Hansen; six great-grandchildren,
Zachary, Jessica, Seth, Coty, Tucker and most recently Kyle. Virginia was
preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, her parents, two sisters and four
brothers.
Graveside services will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2005 at
11:00 a.m. at Myers Evergreen Memorial Park, 100 Monroe Blvd., under the
direction of Myers Mortuary in Ogden. Send condolences to family at
www.myers-mortuary.com
Deseret News 12/14/2006
James Younger Higginbotham (1920-2006) UT
James Younger Higginbotham 1920-2006 We Love You Grandpa James Y.
Higginbotham, beloved husband, father, grand father and great-grandfather, proud
veteran of World War II, kind and gentle giant passed away on December 10th 2006
of complications following surgery. He is survived by his wife, India Westfall
Higginbotham (Wendell, Idaho); children, son James Allen (Kearns), daughter
Annette Warburton (Pocatello, Idaho); 10 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his bride of 50 years, the eternal love of his life,
Ora Orgill Higginbotham; and his beloved daughter, Marilyn Garbis. Jim was a
loyal and loving father and grandfather, sacrificing to help his family when
they needed it. A man of strength and integrity, he was a loyal friend. A
soft-spoken and humble man who spoke little, but said much. He will be sorely
missed. Viewing at Memorial Estates (5850 South 900 East) Friday 6:00 p.m. to
8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held at Kearns 4th ward (4232 W. 5015 South)
Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. with a viewing 1 hour prior at the
church. Interment at Heber City Cemetery.
Salt Lake Tribune 10/19/2008
Elizabeth Violet Squires Higginbotham (1922-2008) UT/TX/KY/OH
Elizabeth (Beth) Higginbotham, 85, beloved wife and mother, grandmother, teacher and community organizer, passed away on Saturday, September 6th, 2008. She was born Elizabeth Violet Squires in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 15th, 1922. After graduating from high school, she enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. She married Robert Higginbotham in 1946. Beth graduated from University of Utah and taught kindergarten. The family then moved to Galveston, Texas where she helped to organize one of the first psychiatric kindergartens in the country. Moving to Louisville, Beth became a community organizer and developed the Head Start initiative as well as other programming for young children in the community. She obtained a graduate degree in Community Development in 1971 and taught classes at Jefferson Community College and IU Southeast. She was an active member and past-president of the U of L Women's Club. She and her husband spent the last few years in Columbus, Ohio to be near their daughter and her family. Beth is survived by her husband Bob, brother Larry, children Sheila and Jeff, their spouses Phil and Elisabeth, and grandchildren Chloe, Kelsey and David. Beth was a dear friend to many and her warmth and caring will live on in those of us who loved her. Services will be held on Sat., November 8th at 2 p.m. at Cave Hill Cemetery, followed by a gathering at the University of Louisville Club.