Joseph Barres Jenkins passed away on 7 April 2015 at age ninety-five.
He was born in Nephi on 22 September 1919 to Charles Rupert Jenkins and Tola Wright Jenkins.
After graduating from Juab High School and serving in the U.S. Army (European Theater) during World War II, he married Norma Christiansen on 15 August 1945. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on 15 August 1946. When Norma passed away in 2003, he married Mary Jane Anderson Simons.
Barres was a mechanic, businessman, and owner of a John Deere dealership (Jenkins Sales & Service) for many years.
He served as a city councilman, mayor, ward bishop, member of a high council and stake presidency, temple ordinance worker, American Legion volunteer, and longtime Boy Scout leader.
He attended two national scout jamborees and received the Silver Beaver Recognition.
In June 2014, he went to Washington, D.C. with his son on the first Utah Honor Flight for war veterans.
He was a seasoned sheepherder, farmer, horseback rider, woodworker, and storyteller.
He was a resourceful, hardworking individual who prized his pioneer roots, his American independence, his sons and grandsons.
Survived by his wife, Mary; son, Joseph Charles (Ellen); daughter-in-law, Patty (Ron) Bates; daughter, Claudia (Roger) Allen; twenty-one grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and sister, Merci Taylor. Preceded in death by his parents; wife, Norma; son, James Richard; foster daughter, Lorraine; and siblings, Loskiel Jenkins, Arta Brough, and Marba Stuart.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, 13 April 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Nephi Stake Center, 351 North 100 West. A visitation will be held on Sunday, 12 April 2015 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home, 94 West 300 North, and one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday.
Interment will be in the Vine Bluff Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 11, 2015.
He was born in Nephi on 22 September 1919 to Charles Rupert Jenkins and Tola Wright Jenkins.
After graduating from Juab High School and serving in the U.S. Army (European Theater) during World War II, he married Norma Christiansen on 15 August 1945. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on 15 August 1946. When Norma passed away in 2003, he married Mary Jane Anderson Simons.
Barres was a mechanic, businessman, and owner of a John Deere dealership (Jenkins Sales & Service) for many years.
He served as a city councilman, mayor, ward bishop, member of a high council and stake presidency, temple ordinance worker, American Legion volunteer, and longtime Boy Scout leader.
He attended two national scout jamborees and received the Silver Beaver Recognition.
In June 2014, he went to Washington, D.C. with his son on the first Utah Honor Flight for war veterans.
He was a seasoned sheepherder, farmer, horseback rider, woodworker, and storyteller.
He was a resourceful, hardworking individual who prized his pioneer roots, his American independence, his sons and grandsons.
Survived by his wife, Mary; son, Joseph Charles (Ellen); daughter-in-law, Patty (Ron) Bates; daughter, Claudia (Roger) Allen; twenty-one grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and sister, Merci Taylor. Preceded in death by his parents; wife, Norma; son, James Richard; foster daughter, Lorraine; and siblings, Loskiel Jenkins, Arta Brough, and Marba Stuart.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, 13 April 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Nephi Stake Center, 351 North 100 West. A visitation will be held on Sunday, 12 April 2015 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home, 94 West 300 North, and one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday.
Interment will be in the Vine Bluff Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 11, 2015.
Joseph Barres Jenkins passed away on 7 April 2015 at age ninety-five.
He was born in Nephi on 22 September 1919 to Charles Rupert Jenkins and Tola Wright Jenkins.
After graduating from Juab High School and serving in the U.S. Army (European Theater) during World War II, he married Norma Christiansen on 15 August 1945. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on 15 August 1946. When Norma passed away in 2003, he married Mary Jane Anderson Simons.
Barres was a mechanic, businessman, and owner of a John Deere dealership (Jenkins Sales & Service) for many years.
He served as a city councilman, mayor, ward bishop, member of a high council and stake presidency, temple ordinance worker, American Legion volunteer, and longtime Boy Scout leader.
He attended two national scout jamborees and received the Silver Beaver Recognition.
In June 2014, he went to Washington, D.C. with his son on the first Utah Honor Flight for war veterans.
He was a seasoned sheepherder, farmer, horseback rider, woodworker, and storyteller.
He was a resourceful, hardworking individual who prized his pioneer roots, his American independence, his sons and grandsons.
Survived by his wife, Mary; son, Joseph Charles (Ellen); daughter-in-law, Patty (Ron) Bates; daughter, Claudia (Roger) Allen; twenty-one grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and sister, Merci Taylor. Preceded in death by his parents; wife, Norma; son, James Richard; foster daughter, Lorraine; and siblings, Loskiel Jenkins, Arta Brough, and Marba Stuart.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, 13 April 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Nephi Stake Center, 351 North 100 West. A visitation will be held on Sunday, 12 April 2015 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home, 94 West 300 North, and one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday.
Interment will be in the Vine Bluff Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 11, 2015.
He was born in Nephi on 22 September 1919 to Charles Rupert Jenkins and Tola Wright Jenkins.
After graduating from Juab High School and serving in the U.S. Army (European Theater) during World War II, he married Norma Christiansen on 15 August 1945. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on 15 August 1946. When Norma passed away in 2003, he married Mary Jane Anderson Simons.
Barres was a mechanic, businessman, and owner of a John Deere dealership (Jenkins Sales & Service) for many years.
He served as a city councilman, mayor, ward bishop, member of a high council and stake presidency, temple ordinance worker, American Legion volunteer, and longtime Boy Scout leader.
He attended two national scout jamborees and received the Silver Beaver Recognition.
In June 2014, he went to Washington, D.C. with his son on the first Utah Honor Flight for war veterans.
He was a seasoned sheepherder, farmer, horseback rider, woodworker, and storyteller.
He was a resourceful, hardworking individual who prized his pioneer roots, his American independence, his sons and grandsons.
Survived by his wife, Mary; son, Joseph Charles (Ellen); daughter-in-law, Patty (Ron) Bates; daughter, Claudia (Roger) Allen; twenty-one grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and sister, Merci Taylor. Preceded in death by his parents; wife, Norma; son, James Richard; foster daughter, Lorraine; and siblings, Loskiel Jenkins, Arta Brough, and Marba Stuart.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, 13 April 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Nephi Stake Center, 351 North 100 West. A visitation will be held on Sunday, 12 April 2015 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home, 94 West 300 North, and one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday.
Interment will be in the Vine Bluff Cemetery.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 11, 2015.
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