Joan Lucille Ross

Joan Vernieu Ross
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Las Vegas - Long time Ogden resident, Joan Lucille Vernieu Ross, 84, died Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at her home in Las Vegas.

She was born on October 6, 1930 in Ogden, Utah, a daughter of John G. and Lucille Dee Thomas Vernieu.

She married Marvin Darrell Ross on September 24, 1955 in Ogden. Their marriage was solemnized in the Ogden LDS Temple on June 20, 1972.

She was a graduate of the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and the University of Utah School of Anesthesia. Upon graduation she moved to Eugene, Oregon to work in the anesthesia department of Sacred Heart Hospital. She later retired from the I.R.S. in Ogden.

She was a member of the LDS Church. She served in numerous callings in the Relief Society and Young Women's Program. She loved fishing, hunting, and the outdoors. She served for many years as a volunteer nurse for the YMCA summer camps. She lived in Eugene, Oregon; Great Falls, Montana; Ogden and for the past 20 months in Las Vegas.

Surviving are her one son and two daughters, Curtis and Peggy Ross, Las Vegas, Nevada; Lynn and Frank Schoendorfer, North Wales, Pennsylvania; Janice and Jack Angelo, Stafford, Virginia; 10 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren and one brother, James Vernieu, Ogden.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at Myers Ogden Mortuary, 845 Washington Blvd. Friends may call at the mortuary prior to the service from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Interment, Evergreen Memorial Park.
VisitationMyers Mortuary - Ogden
100 Monroe Blvd.
Ogden, UT 84404
March 5, 2015
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
ServiceMyers Mortuary - Ogden
1875 Monroe Blvd
Ogden, Utah 84401
March 5, 2015
11:00 AM
CemeteryMyers Evergreen Memorial Park
100 Monroe Blvd.
Ogden, UT 84404
March 5, 2015