[M] #51529 Vern Lamar Mechling ( Burrel Armbrust MechlingHiram Kiser MechlingGeorge W. MechlingPhilip J. MechlingPhilip Jonas MechlingPhilip MechlingDiebold "Theobald" MechlingDiebold MechlingMartin Mechling )

Vern was born 30 Jan 1924 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. He died 3 Mar 2017 in Murray, Salt Lake Co., Utah. He was buried 10 Mar 2017 in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah.

The copy of the obituary reads:

He was a graduate of West High, participating on the yearbook staff and football team. Vern was a WWII decorated U.S. Army veteran, serving in European campaigns with the 740th Railway Operating Battalion from 1943-1946.

Vern continued his railroad career on the Rio Grande, Western Pacific, and Union Pacific railroads. He served as the union representative for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He retired as an engineer after forty-seven years of service.

Vern married Gloria Deane Iverson in Salt Lake City on July 20, 1946, later solemnizing their marriage in the Jordan River Temple. They resided in Salt Lake City and Murray. Recently, they celebrated seventy years of marriage.

Vern enjoyed coaching little league baseball, fishing, hunting, traveling, being a home handyman, and cultivating his yard and garden. Vern and Gloria loved the Utah Jazz. Vern's wife and family brought his greatest happiness, and he generously served them his entire life.

At the time of his death, he had sixteen grandchildren and thirty-seven great-grandchildren.

Vern (relationship status suppressed while one person possibly living) #51530 Living.

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Children of this relationship:

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Joanne Sainsbury, email to Tad Deffler, dated: 17 Jun 2009.

Vern Lamar Mechling, cemetery notes, www.findagrave.com, #177072868. Citing an obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar 2017.


Line Generation: 10

Relationship: Sixth Cousins One Times Removed through Diebold "Theobald" Mechling