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Harold Clive Ashby, 19091980 (aged 70 years)

Name
Harold Clive /Ashby/
Given names
Harold Clive
Surname
Ashby
Family with parents
father
Stephen Wells Ashby 1884-1949.jpg
18841949
Birth: 30 August 1884Spanish Fork, Utah, USA
Death: 5 July 1949Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
mother
Ambrosine Zina Hacking 1884-1963.jpg
18841963
Birth: 22 August 1884 27 26 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 20 December 1963Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Marriage Marriage30 August 1906Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
11 months
elder brother
Rulon Wells Ashby 1907-1965.jpg
19071965
Birth: 14 July 1907 22 22 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 25 November 1965Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
23 months
himself
Harold Clive Ashby 1909-1980.jpg
19091980
Birth: 23 May 1909 24 24 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 3 April 1980Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
17 months
younger sister
Thora Ashby 1910-1994 and husband Philip Ray Hall.jpg
19101994
Birth: 9 October 1910 26 26 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 9 December 1994Maeser, Uintah, Utah, USA
4 years
younger sister
Sarah Asby 1915-1930.jpg
19151930
Birth: 2 February 1915 30 30 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 5 July 1930Provo, Utah, USA
3 years
younger brother
Ward Hacking Ashby 1917-1998.jpg
19171998
Birth: 5 December 1917 33 33 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 1 May 1998Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
5 years
younger sister
Anna Ashby and husband George Neal Oldham.jpg
19221992
Birth: 3 October 1922 38 38 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 28 February 1992Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Family with Neva Burton
himself
Harold Clive Ashby 1909-1980.jpg
19091980
Birth: 23 May 1909 24 24 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 3 April 1980Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
wife
Neva Ashby nee Burton 1908-1989.jpg
19081989
Birth: 15 July 1908Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 10 May 1989Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
son
Clyde Harold Ashby
son
Boyd Ray Ashby
Note

Harold was the second child and second son born to Ambrosine Hacking and Stephen Wells Ashby. Harold grew up loving to break and ride horses. He helped his father on the farm and doing chores.

Harold was a sheepherder most of his adult life. He enjoyed dancing. His niece, Lila Ashby Thacker remembers when he was young he gave her a beautiful doll with a porcelain face and curly hair. His nephew, Gary Ashby, remembers that he gave him a stuffed dog when he was young.

Harold married Neva Burton December 21, 1940. She was July 15, 1908. They had two sons, Clyde Harold and Boyd Ray Ashby.

Clyde was born March 20, 1942 in Vernal, Utah. He married first Janice Kay Lloyd August 16, 1963. Janice was born September 2, 1946 in Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico. They had one daughter, Kimberly Dawn Ashby, who was born April 14, 1966 in Vernal, Utah. They were later divorced.

Boyd was born September 28, 1943 in Vernal, Uintah, Utah. He was never married.

Harold died April 3, 1980. He was going to feed his dog, when he died suddenly of a heart attack. Harold was devoted to his family. He was friendly and kind, good-hearted and generous.

-by Lila Ashby Thacker

Harold Clive Ashby, 70, died in the Uintah County Hospital of a heart attack April 3, 1980 and was honored by funeral services April 7 in the Maeser Fourth Ward Chapel.

Mr. Ashby was born May 23, 1909 in Vernal to Stephen Wells And Ambrosine Hacking. He married Neva Burton December 21, 1940 in Heber City, Utah. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a sheepherder and rancher.
Bishop George D. Merkley conducted the funeral service. Dee Hall gave the family prayer, and Daun White and Dorothy Peltier Sang, "Home on the Range." Leland McNeil spoke followed by Wayne Hall who sang "Silver Haired Daddy of Mine." Lorin Hacking gave the Benediction.

Ward Ashby dedicated the grave in the Rock Point Cemetery. Pallbearers were Merlin Sinfield, Brad Bullock, Garn Anderson, Troy Burton, Glen Durtz, and T.J. McNeil.

Honorary pallbearers included Bob Langford, Morgan Hall, Marinn Hall, Steve Oldham, Jim Oldham, Cody Jenkins, David Ashby, Dennis Ashby, Gary Ashby and Kenny Ashby.

Survivors are his widow of Vernal; three sons, Burton F. McNeil, Vernal, Clyde H. Ashby, Vernal, and Boyd R. Ashby, Vernal; five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; a brother, Ward, of Midvale; and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Oldham, Vernal, Mrs. Philip Hall, Vernal.
-Vernal Express, April 1980