Uretta Vera Scarbrough
Marriages
Jackson Sterling Scarbrough - January 30, 1939
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 8A Death Notice - July 7, 2017
Uretta Vera Scarbrough, 95, Grand Junction, died July 4,
2017, in Grand Junction.
Visitation will be at 10 a.m. July 11 at the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, 3076 E 1/2 Road. Services will follow at 11 a.m.
Graveside service will be at 1 p.m. July 12 at the Olinger Chapel Hill
Cemetery in Centennial.
She was a homemaker.
Survivors include one son, Sterling of Grand Junction; one
daughter, Linda Dolan of Sandy, Utah; 16 grandchildren; 45 greatgrandchildren;
and two great great-grandchildren.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Obituary - July 9, 2017
Uretta Vera Scarbrough died
on Independence Day
declaring her independence,
July 4, 2017, in Grand
Junction, Colorado.
She was born on December
31, 1921, to goodly parents,
Daniel James Denning and
Vera Alavon Clifford in
Weiser, ID. At nine months, her mother passed away and she
went to live with her fraternal grandparents in California. At 13,
she took the train from California to Salt Lake City and was
picked up by family and driven to Douglas County, Colorado
where she lived with her father. She attended school in
Englewood, Colorado.
On January 31, 1939 during her senior year of high school, she
married Jackson Sterling Scarbrough. They lived in Englewood,
Littleton, and Cedaredge, Colorado. After Jack died, she moved
to Clifton, Colorado where she lived 25 years.
Uretta was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday
Saints and held many callings in the church. She also served
on the Colorado Mission Board and served in the Denver,
Colorado and Vernal, Utah temples.
Uretta was very talented and had many hobbies and interests.
She was a master tailor and seamstress. She knitted, crocheted,
tatted, painted and created many Brazilian embroidery pieces.
She also decorated wedding cakes for friends.
Uretta had three children and is survived by two of them,
Sterling (Carolyn) Scarbrough of Grand Junction, Colorado, and
Linda (Thomas) Dolan of Sandy, Utah. Kenneth Scarbrough is
deceased. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren, 45 greatgrandchildren
and two and one half great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at
11:00 a.m. with viewing one hour before at The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel, 3076 E 1/2 Road, Grand
Junction, Colorado. Burial will be at Chapel Hills Cemetery,
6601 South Colorado Blvd., Littleton, CO on Wednesday, July
12, 2017, at 1:00 p.m.
