This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farner, Cottle, Loveridge Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1729 Message Board Post: The Herald Journal, 09/12/06 Our loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and friend, John Carl Farner, 81, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, at the Brigham City Hospital. He was born on Feb. 11, 1925, in Garden City, Utah, a son of John and Loretta Cottle Farner. He grew up in Garden City and moved to Ogden, graduating from Ogden High School. Carl was a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict; he served in the U.S. Navy, and later as a civilian in Thailand for the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. He married Lorna Loveridge on Nov. 20, 1946, in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. He attended Weber State College where Carl was valedictorian of his graduating class of construction trade. After moving with his family to Brigham City in 1957, he became a private building contractor for nine years in Brigham City and Ogden. He later worked at Hill Air Force Base for 19 years, retiring in 1985. Carl had been involved with Scouting in various callings, earning a master’s degree in commissioner’s college, two awards of merit and a Silver Beaver. Carl enjoyed woodworking, horses, camping, hunting, fishing, mountain man, and was working on the family cabin in Garden City. He was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he served as Scout master for many years. Surviving is his wife, Lorna of Brigham City; five children, Steve (LaWana) Farner of Honeyville, Brian (Jan) Farner of Tremonton, Lynn (Annette) Farner of Tremonton, Dawnett (Bart) McKell of Ogden and Sharon (Mike) Alder of Hermiston, Ore.; 12 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Flora White of Ontario, Ore. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Gaye Farner Barnard; one granddaughter; and three brothers. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Brigham City LDS 12th Ward Chapel, 320 E. 600 North. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Gillies Funeral Chapel, 634 E. 200 South, Brigham City, and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the church. Interment will be at 4 p.m. in the Garden City Cemetery.