It is with inexpressible grief that I announce the sudden passing of Robert Lloyd Ashcroft, Capt. USAF, ret., on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 from a pulmonary embolism.
Capt. Ashcroft was born 28 February 1954 to Lloyd H. Ashcroft and Alice May Thomson in Pendleton, Oregon. He attended Ricks College, now BYU-I, where he met his future bride. After serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Argentina Rosario Mission, he married Shelley Alane Ross in the Manti Temple. They are the parents of two daughters and four boys. Three of their children were born with cystic fibrosis and each passed away from complications of the disease.
Captain Ashcroft earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, a master’s degree in computer information sciences from the University of Phoenix, and a master’s degree in business management from Westminster College. He served seventeen years in the Air Force with an honorable discharge and full benefits, serving two unaccompanied tours to Osan, South Korea and working at NSA as an Arab linguist. He was a mechanical engineer who worked mostly in civil engineering and youth relations. After military retirement, Captain Ashcroft settled in San Antonio, Texas for thirteen years, then he moved his family to Sandy for the last twenty years of his life, where he worked primarily as an industrial project manager.
Captain Ashcroft loved to study and learn widely. His interests spanned from metal detecting to online marketing to herbal medicine to scouting to patriotism. Since he was twelve years old, however, his strongest interest has been in family history, collecting the stories behind the names, even of collateral relatives. His church service included Stake High Council four times, Stake Clerk and Ward Clerk innumerable times, bishopric Counselor, and Teacher. He served as an Ordinance Worker in the Seoul, Korea Temple, the Jordan River Temple, and most recently had been called as an Ordinance Worker in the Draper Temple.
Captain Ashcroft is survived by Shelley Ashcroft, his wife of forty-four years; daughter, Cara Horton (Justin), of San Antonio; son, R.J. Ashcroft (Alle), of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and son, Simon Ashcroft (Tierra), of Seattle, Washington. Captain Ashcroft is preceded in death by his son, Adam Ross; daughter, Roshelle Leigh Evans (Jeremy); and son, Gavin Lloyd. He leaves behind three sisters, myriad in-laws, nieces, and nephews, and eight grandchildren. Only God is more important to Captain Ashcroft than his family.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 in the Union Sixth Ward Chapel, 1433 East Old Mission Road (7930 South), Sandy. Viewings will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Monday, December 2, 2019 at Goff Mortuary, 8090 South State Street (100 East), Midvale, and prior to the services at the church on Tuesday from 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Interment: Utah Veterans Memorial Park.
Published by Goff Mortuary.
Capt. Ashcroft was born 28 February 1954 to Lloyd H. Ashcroft and Alice May Thomson in Pendleton, Oregon. He attended Ricks College, now BYU-I, where he met his future bride. After serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Argentina Rosario Mission, he married Shelley Alane Ross in the Manti Temple. They are the parents of two daughters and four boys. Three of their children were born with cystic fibrosis and each passed away from complications of the disease.
Captain Ashcroft earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, a master’s degree in computer information sciences from the University of Phoenix, and a master’s degree in business management from Westminster College. He served seventeen years in the Air Force with an honorable discharge and full benefits, serving two unaccompanied tours to Osan, South Korea and working at NSA as an Arab linguist. He was a mechanical engineer who worked mostly in civil engineering and youth relations. After military retirement, Captain Ashcroft settled in San Antonio, Texas for thirteen years, then he moved his family to Sandy for the last twenty years of his life, where he worked primarily as an industrial project manager.
Captain Ashcroft loved to study and learn widely. His interests spanned from metal detecting to online marketing to herbal medicine to scouting to patriotism. Since he was twelve years old, however, his strongest interest has been in family history, collecting the stories behind the names, even of collateral relatives. His church service included Stake High Council four times, Stake Clerk and Ward Clerk innumerable times, bishopric Counselor, and Teacher. He served as an Ordinance Worker in the Seoul, Korea Temple, the Jordan River Temple, and most recently had been called as an Ordinance Worker in the Draper Temple.
Captain Ashcroft is survived by Shelley Ashcroft, his wife of forty-four years; daughter, Cara Horton (Justin), of San Antonio; son, R.J. Ashcroft (Alle), of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and son, Simon Ashcroft (Tierra), of Seattle, Washington. Captain Ashcroft is preceded in death by his son, Adam Ross; daughter, Roshelle Leigh Evans (Jeremy); and son, Gavin Lloyd. He leaves behind three sisters, myriad in-laws, nieces, and nephews, and eight grandchildren. Only God is more important to Captain Ashcroft than his family.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 in the Union Sixth Ward Chapel, 1433 East Old Mission Road (7930 South), Sandy. Viewings will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Monday, December 2, 2019 at Goff Mortuary, 8090 South State Street (100 East), Midvale, and prior to the services at the church on Tuesday from 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Interment: Utah Veterans Memorial Park.
Published by Goff Mortuary.
It is with inexpressible grief that I announce the sudden passing of Robert Lloyd Ashcroft, Capt. USAF, ret., on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 from a pulmonary embolism.
Capt. Ashcroft was born 28 February 1954 to Lloyd H. Ashcroft and Alice May Thomson in Pendleton, Oregon. He attended Ricks College, now BYU-I, where he met his future bride. After serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Argentina Rosario Mission, he married Shelley Alane Ross in the Manti Temple. They are the parents of two daughters and four boys. Three of their children were born with cystic fibrosis and each passed away from complications of the disease.
Captain Ashcroft earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, a master’s degree in computer information sciences from the University of Phoenix, and a master’s degree in business management from Westminster College. He served seventeen years in the Air Force with an honorable discharge and full benefits, serving two unaccompanied tours to Osan, South Korea and working at NSA as an Arab linguist. He was a mechanical engineer who worked mostly in civil engineering and youth relations. After military retirement, Captain Ashcroft settled in San Antonio, Texas for thirteen years, then he moved his family to Sandy for the last twenty years of his life, where he worked primarily as an industrial project manager.
Captain Ashcroft loved to study and learn widely. His interests spanned from metal detecting to online marketing to herbal medicine to scouting to patriotism. Since he was twelve years old, however, his strongest interest has been in family history, collecting the stories behind the names, even of collateral relatives. His church service included Stake High Council four times, Stake Clerk and Ward Clerk innumerable times, bishopric Counselor, and Teacher. He served as an Ordinance Worker in the Seoul, Korea Temple, the Jordan River Temple, and most recently had been called as an Ordinance Worker in the Draper Temple.
Captain Ashcroft is survived by Shelley Ashcroft, his wife of forty-four years; daughter, Cara Horton (Justin), of San Antonio; son, R.J. Ashcroft (Alle), of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and son, Simon Ashcroft (Tierra), of Seattle, Washington. Captain Ashcroft is preceded in death by his son, Adam Ross; daughter, Roshelle Leigh Evans (Jeremy); and son, Gavin Lloyd. He leaves behind three sisters, myriad in-laws, nieces, and nephews, and eight grandchildren. Only God is more important to Captain Ashcroft than his family.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 in the Union Sixth Ward Chapel, 1433 East Old Mission Road (7930 South), Sandy. Viewings will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Monday, December 2, 2019 at Goff Mortuary, 8090 South State Street (100 East), Midvale, and prior to the services at the church on Tuesday from 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Interment: Utah Veterans Memorial Park.
Published by Goff Mortuary.
Capt. Ashcroft was born 28 February 1954 to Lloyd H. Ashcroft and Alice May Thomson in Pendleton, Oregon. He attended Ricks College, now BYU-I, where he met his future bride. After serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Argentina Rosario Mission, he married Shelley Alane Ross in the Manti Temple. They are the parents of two daughters and four boys. Three of their children were born with cystic fibrosis and each passed away from complications of the disease.
Captain Ashcroft earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, a master’s degree in computer information sciences from the University of Phoenix, and a master’s degree in business management from Westminster College. He served seventeen years in the Air Force with an honorable discharge and full benefits, serving two unaccompanied tours to Osan, South Korea and working at NSA as an Arab linguist. He was a mechanical engineer who worked mostly in civil engineering and youth relations. After military retirement, Captain Ashcroft settled in San Antonio, Texas for thirteen years, then he moved his family to Sandy for the last twenty years of his life, where he worked primarily as an industrial project manager.
Captain Ashcroft loved to study and learn widely. His interests spanned from metal detecting to online marketing to herbal medicine to scouting to patriotism. Since he was twelve years old, however, his strongest interest has been in family history, collecting the stories behind the names, even of collateral relatives. His church service included Stake High Council four times, Stake Clerk and Ward Clerk innumerable times, bishopric Counselor, and Teacher. He served as an Ordinance Worker in the Seoul, Korea Temple, the Jordan River Temple, and most recently had been called as an Ordinance Worker in the Draper Temple.
Captain Ashcroft is survived by Shelley Ashcroft, his wife of forty-four years; daughter, Cara Horton (Justin), of San Antonio; son, R.J. Ashcroft (Alle), of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and son, Simon Ashcroft (Tierra), of Seattle, Washington. Captain Ashcroft is preceded in death by his son, Adam Ross; daughter, Roshelle Leigh Evans (Jeremy); and son, Gavin Lloyd. He leaves behind three sisters, myriad in-laws, nieces, and nephews, and eight grandchildren. Only God is more important to Captain Ashcroft than his family.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 in the Union Sixth Ward Chapel, 1433 East Old Mission Road (7930 South), Sandy. Viewings will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Monday, December 2, 2019 at Goff Mortuary, 8090 South State Street (100 East), Midvale, and prior to the services at the church on Tuesday from 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Interment: Utah Veterans Memorial Park.
Published by Goff Mortuary.
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