Shirley Reber Stratton passed from this life on November 5, 2014 nearing the age of 92 due to heart failure after a life of family and service. She left this life with a full knowledge of who she is and where she is going and is now enjoying a glorious reunion with her loved ones who preceded her. Shirley was known for her energy and a joy for life until her heart just wore out. She always had a brilliant smile for everyone she met
Shirley was born in Santa Clara Utah on January 10, 1923 to Ernest & Jetta Gubler Reber. When she was 2 years old her parents with her 3 year old brother Jack moved the Santa Clara bench, 3 miles north of Santa Clara, which is now Ivins. Their first year they lived in a tent and in 1925 Ernie & Jetta built their new home which was located on the corner of main and 200 East Center St.
Shirley graduated from St George high school where she was a popular and good student. Though she was short in height, she was fast afoot out running most of the boys. She was a cheerleader and involved with student government. While in high school she met a young handsome boy from Kanab Utah who was attending Dixie College. Blaine and Shirley were married in the St George Temple in 1941 and moved to Pasadena Ca. where Blaine worked in the factories and where their daughter Boni Lee was born. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii changing the world forever. They then moved back to St George where Blaine worked as a mechanic and attended pilot school. After Pearl Harbor all private aircraft were grounded on the West Coast and Blaine was able to purchase a small piper cub type airplane which he hauled unassembled on a flatbed truck back to St George where he re assembled it. Meanwhile Shirley was a stay at home mom to their baby daughter. On October 1, 1942 while flying his newly assembled plane over Ivins with a friend they crashed and both were killed. Two months later their second child Van Blaine Cutler Jr was born.
That was a difficult time for Shirley as she was forced to move her young family back to live with her parents in Ivins. After a year the family and Ward built her a two room home next to her parents where she and her two babies lived until January 1946.
In mid-1945 Shirley applied for a waitressing job at the Gates Café in West Santa Clara where the manager Elton Stratton of Hurricane Utah had just returned from the war in Europe after serving for 4 years in the Army Air Corps. She was hired and shortly after Shirley and Elton started dating. They were married in January 1946 and lived for a short time at the Gates Lodge next to the Gates Café. After a few months Elton was offered a job at the Social Security and Employment office in Cedar City. They then moved to Cedar City where they lived for a year in a trailer house next to Elton’s Mother while Elton purchased land and built their first home, a Quonset House on 500 West and 375 North. In 1952 they built a new home at 364 N 600 W in Cedar where they lived the remaining years of their lives.
Their family consisted of 7 children. In addition to Boni Webster ( Deward, deceased) and Blaine (Judy) were born Dianne Stratton Gubler (Joe), Elton Roger (Penny), Monty Cornelius (Carla), Jo Lynn Stratton Holt (Kent), Michael Lane (Sheryl).They are blessed with 27 grandchildren, 51 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, brother Kendle and sister Kathleen Wilkins.
Elton died in 2007 at the age of 90 after working his entire career at the employment security and Job Service office retiring in 1977. Shirley worked as a librarian for several years at the Cedar City public Library after Elton Retired.
Shirley’s life was filled with service to her family and her church. She could be feisty but loving, she was a wonderful cook and home maker, she could do anything including painting their house. She loved to garden and can the fruits of her labors as can be attested to in her food cellar even today. She loved to quilt and do genealogy and she was always the organizer of family events, she was very musical and from the early age of 10 years she led the music in church meetings, she directed the ward choir until her early 80’s. She served in the Young Women’s and the Relief Society serving as the Relief Society President at the age of 75. Elton though not active in the church in their early years became Shirley’s unofficial asst. counselor while she served as the president. They later served together in the St George Temple. Shirley had an unwavering testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of the Saviors atonement that makes it possible for all of us to return to our Father in Heaven.
After Elton’s death Shirley continued to live in their home in which she took great pride. It was always well manicured front and back and spotless inside. Even recently she could be seen about town behind the wheel of her 1995 Lincoln taking her sister Janice on errands. Her siblings were very important to her. She had the opportunity to travel much with family to Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Alaska, Europe, and Mexico and throughout the United States visiting family and on special US and Church history trips. Her life was always about her family and she realized how important they were to her and eternity.
She was a great daughter of our Father in Heaven and wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend of to all who knew her. She has truly lived a wonderful life and now moves on to her next estate having fulfilled her second estate and earthly life with a great testimony of the plan of salvation. She will be missed for now by all but we know we will see her again before too long. Today we say “go and prepare a place for us for we will be with you again soon”.
We’ll love you forever our Dear Mother, Boni, Blaine, Dianne, Roger, Monty, Jo Lynn & Mike.
Services will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 11:00 am at the Cedar 4th Ward Chapel (500 West 400 North). Viewings will be on Friday, November 14, 2014 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 North 300 West) and on Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 9:30-10:30 am at the Cedar 4th Ward. Interment will be in the Cedar City Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary
Shirley was born in Santa Clara Utah on January 10, 1923 to Ernest & Jetta Gubler Reber. When she was 2 years old her parents with her 3 year old brother Jack moved the Santa Clara bench, 3 miles north of Santa Clara, which is now Ivins. Their first year they lived in a tent and in 1925 Ernie & Jetta built their new home which was located on the corner of main and 200 East Center St.
Shirley graduated from St George high school where she was a popular and good student. Though she was short in height, she was fast afoot out running most of the boys. She was a cheerleader and involved with student government. While in high school she met a young handsome boy from Kanab Utah who was attending Dixie College. Blaine and Shirley were married in the St George Temple in 1941 and moved to Pasadena Ca. where Blaine worked in the factories and where their daughter Boni Lee was born. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii changing the world forever. They then moved back to St George where Blaine worked as a mechanic and attended pilot school. After Pearl Harbor all private aircraft were grounded on the West Coast and Blaine was able to purchase a small piper cub type airplane which he hauled unassembled on a flatbed truck back to St George where he re assembled it. Meanwhile Shirley was a stay at home mom to their baby daughter. On October 1, 1942 while flying his newly assembled plane over Ivins with a friend they crashed and both were killed. Two months later their second child Van Blaine Cutler Jr was born.
That was a difficult time for Shirley as she was forced to move her young family back to live with her parents in Ivins. After a year the family and Ward built her a two room home next to her parents where she and her two babies lived until January 1946.
In mid-1945 Shirley applied for a waitressing job at the Gates Café in West Santa Clara where the manager Elton Stratton of Hurricane Utah had just returned from the war in Europe after serving for 4 years in the Army Air Corps. She was hired and shortly after Shirley and Elton started dating. They were married in January 1946 and lived for a short time at the Gates Lodge next to the Gates Café. After a few months Elton was offered a job at the Social Security and Employment office in Cedar City. They then moved to Cedar City where they lived for a year in a trailer house next to Elton’s Mother while Elton purchased land and built their first home, a Quonset House on 500 West and 375 North. In 1952 they built a new home at 364 N 600 W in Cedar where they lived the remaining years of their lives.
Their family consisted of 7 children. In addition to Boni Webster ( Deward, deceased) and Blaine (Judy) were born Dianne Stratton Gubler (Joe), Elton Roger (Penny), Monty Cornelius (Carla), Jo Lynn Stratton Holt (Kent), Michael Lane (Sheryl).They are blessed with 27 grandchildren, 51 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, brother Kendle and sister Kathleen Wilkins.
Elton died in 2007 at the age of 90 after working his entire career at the employment security and Job Service office retiring in 1977. Shirley worked as a librarian for several years at the Cedar City public Library after Elton Retired.
Shirley’s life was filled with service to her family and her church. She could be feisty but loving, she was a wonderful cook and home maker, she could do anything including painting their house. She loved to garden and can the fruits of her labors as can be attested to in her food cellar even today. She loved to quilt and do genealogy and she was always the organizer of family events, she was very musical and from the early age of 10 years she led the music in church meetings, she directed the ward choir until her early 80’s. She served in the Young Women’s and the Relief Society serving as the Relief Society President at the age of 75. Elton though not active in the church in their early years became Shirley’s unofficial asst. counselor while she served as the president. They later served together in the St George Temple. Shirley had an unwavering testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of the Saviors atonement that makes it possible for all of us to return to our Father in Heaven.
After Elton’s death Shirley continued to live in their home in which she took great pride. It was always well manicured front and back and spotless inside. Even recently she could be seen about town behind the wheel of her 1995 Lincoln taking her sister Janice on errands. Her siblings were very important to her. She had the opportunity to travel much with family to Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Alaska, Europe, and Mexico and throughout the United States visiting family and on special US and Church history trips. Her life was always about her family and she realized how important they were to her and eternity.
She was a great daughter of our Father in Heaven and wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend of to all who knew her. She has truly lived a wonderful life and now moves on to her next estate having fulfilled her second estate and earthly life with a great testimony of the plan of salvation. She will be missed for now by all but we know we will see her again before too long. Today we say “go and prepare a place for us for we will be with you again soon”.
We’ll love you forever our Dear Mother, Boni, Blaine, Dianne, Roger, Monty, Jo Lynn & Mike.
Services will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 11:00 am at the Cedar 4th Ward Chapel (500 West 400 North). Viewings will be on Friday, November 14, 2014 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 North 300 West) and on Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 9:30-10:30 am at the Cedar 4th Ward. Interment will be in the Cedar City Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary
Shirley Reber Stratton passed from this life on November 5, 2014 nearing the age of 92 due to heart failure after a life of family and service. She left this life with a full knowledge of who she is and where she is going and is now enjoying a glorious reunion with her loved ones who preceded her. Shirley was known for her energy and a joy for life until her heart just wore out. She always had a brilliant smile for everyone she met
Shirley was born in Santa Clara Utah on January 10, 1923 to Ernest & Jetta Gubler Reber. When she was 2 years old her parents with her 3 year old brother Jack moved the Santa Clara bench, 3 miles north of Santa Clara, which is now Ivins. Their first year they lived in a tent and in 1925 Ernie & Jetta built their new home which was located on the corner of main and 200 East Center St.
Shirley graduated from St George high school where she was a popular and good student. Though she was short in height, she was fast afoot out running most of the boys. She was a cheerleader and involved with student government. While in high school she met a young handsome boy from Kanab Utah who was attending Dixie College. Blaine and Shirley were married in the St George Temple in 1941 and moved to Pasadena Ca. where Blaine worked in the factories and where their daughter Boni Lee was born. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii changing the world forever. They then moved back to St George where Blaine worked as a mechanic and attended pilot school. After Pearl Harbor all private aircraft were grounded on the West Coast and Blaine was able to purchase a small piper cub type airplane which he hauled unassembled on a flatbed truck back to St George where he re assembled it. Meanwhile Shirley was a stay at home mom to their baby daughter. On October 1, 1942 while flying his newly assembled plane over Ivins with a friend they crashed and both were killed. Two months later their second child Van Blaine Cutler Jr was born.
That was a difficult time for Shirley as she was forced to move her young family back to live with her parents in Ivins. After a year the family and Ward built her a two room home next to her parents where she and her two babies lived until January 1946.
In mid-1945 Shirley applied for a waitressing job at the Gates Café in West Santa Clara where the manager Elton Stratton of Hurricane Utah had just returned from the war in Europe after serving for 4 years in the Army Air Corps. She was hired and shortly after Shirley and Elton started dating. They were married in January 1946 and lived for a short time at the Gates Lodge next to the Gates Café. After a few months Elton was offered a job at the Social Security and Employment office in Cedar City. They then moved to Cedar City where they lived for a year in a trailer house next to Elton’s Mother while Elton purchased land and built their first home, a Quonset House on 500 West and 375 North. In 1952 they built a new home at 364 N 600 W in Cedar where they lived the remaining years of their lives.
Their family consisted of 7 children. In addition to Boni Webster ( Deward, deceased) and Blaine (Judy) were born Dianne Stratton Gubler (Joe), Elton Roger (Penny), Monty Cornelius (Carla), Jo Lynn Stratton Holt (Kent), Michael Lane (Sheryl).They are blessed with 27 grandchildren, 51 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, brother Kendle and sister Kathleen Wilkins.
Elton died in 2007 at the age of 90 after working his entire career at the employment security and Job Service office retiring in 1977. Shirley worked as a librarian for several years at the Cedar City public Library after Elton Retired.
Shirley’s life was filled with service to her family and her church. She could be feisty but loving, she was a wonderful cook and home maker, she could do anything including painting their house. She loved to garden and can the fruits of her labors as can be attested to in her food cellar even today. She loved to quilt and do genealogy and she was always the organizer of family events, she was very musical and from the early age of 10 years she led the music in church meetings, she directed the ward choir until her early 80’s. She served in the Young Women’s and the Relief Society serving as the Relief Society President at the age of 75. Elton though not active in the church in their early years became Shirley’s unofficial asst. counselor while she served as the president. They later served together in the St George Temple. Shirley had an unwavering testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of the Saviors atonement that makes it possible for all of us to return to our Father in Heaven.
After Elton’s death Shirley continued to live in their home in which she took great pride. It was always well manicured front and back and spotless inside. Even recently she could be seen about town behind the wheel of her 1995 Lincoln taking her sister Janice on errands. Her siblings were very important to her. She had the opportunity to travel much with family to Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Alaska, Europe, and Mexico and throughout the United States visiting family and on special US and Church history trips. Her life was always about her family and she realized how important they were to her and eternity.
She was a great daughter of our Father in Heaven and wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend of to all who knew her. She has truly lived a wonderful life and now moves on to her next estate having fulfilled her second estate and earthly life with a great testimony of the plan of salvation. She will be missed for now by all but we know we will see her again before too long. Today we say “go and prepare a place for us for we will be with you again soon”.
We’ll love you forever our Dear Mother, Boni, Blaine, Dianne, Roger, Monty, Jo Lynn & Mike.
Services will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 11:00 am at the Cedar 4th Ward Chapel (500 West 400 North). Viewings will be on Friday, November 14, 2014 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 North 300 West) and on Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 9:30-10:30 am at the Cedar 4th Ward. Interment will be in the Cedar City Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary
Shirley was born in Santa Clara Utah on January 10, 1923 to Ernest & Jetta Gubler Reber. When she was 2 years old her parents with her 3 year old brother Jack moved the Santa Clara bench, 3 miles north of Santa Clara, which is now Ivins. Their first year they lived in a tent and in 1925 Ernie & Jetta built their new home which was located on the corner of main and 200 East Center St.
Shirley graduated from St George high school where she was a popular and good student. Though she was short in height, she was fast afoot out running most of the boys. She was a cheerleader and involved with student government. While in high school she met a young handsome boy from Kanab Utah who was attending Dixie College. Blaine and Shirley were married in the St George Temple in 1941 and moved to Pasadena Ca. where Blaine worked in the factories and where their daughter Boni Lee was born. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii changing the world forever. They then moved back to St George where Blaine worked as a mechanic and attended pilot school. After Pearl Harbor all private aircraft were grounded on the West Coast and Blaine was able to purchase a small piper cub type airplane which he hauled unassembled on a flatbed truck back to St George where he re assembled it. Meanwhile Shirley was a stay at home mom to their baby daughter. On October 1, 1942 while flying his newly assembled plane over Ivins with a friend they crashed and both were killed. Two months later their second child Van Blaine Cutler Jr was born.
That was a difficult time for Shirley as she was forced to move her young family back to live with her parents in Ivins. After a year the family and Ward built her a two room home next to her parents where she and her two babies lived until January 1946.
In mid-1945 Shirley applied for a waitressing job at the Gates Café in West Santa Clara where the manager Elton Stratton of Hurricane Utah had just returned from the war in Europe after serving for 4 years in the Army Air Corps. She was hired and shortly after Shirley and Elton started dating. They were married in January 1946 and lived for a short time at the Gates Lodge next to the Gates Café. After a few months Elton was offered a job at the Social Security and Employment office in Cedar City. They then moved to Cedar City where they lived for a year in a trailer house next to Elton’s Mother while Elton purchased land and built their first home, a Quonset House on 500 West and 375 North. In 1952 they built a new home at 364 N 600 W in Cedar where they lived the remaining years of their lives.
Their family consisted of 7 children. In addition to Boni Webster ( Deward, deceased) and Blaine (Judy) were born Dianne Stratton Gubler (Joe), Elton Roger (Penny), Monty Cornelius (Carla), Jo Lynn Stratton Holt (Kent), Michael Lane (Sheryl).They are blessed with 27 grandchildren, 51 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, brother Kendle and sister Kathleen Wilkins.
Elton died in 2007 at the age of 90 after working his entire career at the employment security and Job Service office retiring in 1977. Shirley worked as a librarian for several years at the Cedar City public Library after Elton Retired.
Shirley’s life was filled with service to her family and her church. She could be feisty but loving, she was a wonderful cook and home maker, she could do anything including painting their house. She loved to garden and can the fruits of her labors as can be attested to in her food cellar even today. She loved to quilt and do genealogy and she was always the organizer of family events, she was very musical and from the early age of 10 years she led the music in church meetings, she directed the ward choir until her early 80’s. She served in the Young Women’s and the Relief Society serving as the Relief Society President at the age of 75. Elton though not active in the church in their early years became Shirley’s unofficial asst. counselor while she served as the president. They later served together in the St George Temple. Shirley had an unwavering testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of the Saviors atonement that makes it possible for all of us to return to our Father in Heaven.
After Elton’s death Shirley continued to live in their home in which she took great pride. It was always well manicured front and back and spotless inside. Even recently she could be seen about town behind the wheel of her 1995 Lincoln taking her sister Janice on errands. Her siblings were very important to her. She had the opportunity to travel much with family to Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Alaska, Europe, and Mexico and throughout the United States visiting family and on special US and Church history trips. Her life was always about her family and she realized how important they were to her and eternity.
She was a great daughter of our Father in Heaven and wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend of to all who knew her. She has truly lived a wonderful life and now moves on to her next estate having fulfilled her second estate and earthly life with a great testimony of the plan of salvation. She will be missed for now by all but we know we will see her again before too long. Today we say “go and prepare a place for us for we will be with you again soon”.
We’ll love you forever our Dear Mother, Boni, Blaine, Dianne, Roger, Monty, Jo Lynn & Mike.
Services will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 11:00 am at the Cedar 4th Ward Chapel (500 West 400 North). Viewings will be on Friday, November 14, 2014 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Southern Utah Mortuary (190 North 300 West) and on Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 9:30-10:30 am at the Cedar 4th Ward. Interment will be in the Cedar City Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary
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