June 17, 1939 — December 6, 2025 (age 86)

Melvin Ashton Stuart, 86, passed away in Garland, Utah, on 06 December 2025 after a short battle with pulmonary fibrosis.

Melvin was born on 17 June 1939 in a log cabin on his grandfather Joshua Ashton’s sheep ranch in Rich County, Utah. The oldest child of LeMar and Mary (Ashton) Stuart’s seven children, he spent his youth in Heber City and Midway, Utah, before moving to Syracuse, Utah. During his junior high and high school years, he was involved in helping take care of the family farm, hunting, fishing, causing all kinds of mischief with his cousins and friends, and wearing out his guardian angels.

He graduated from Davis High School in 1957 and enlisted in the United States Army Reserves “because it was the right thing to do”, where he serve

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