Melvin George KNAPTON

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1940, Living with parents in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah

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Our loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend, Melvin, passed away peacefully in his home on August 15, 2016.

Melvin was born in Holladay on April 21, 1926 to George Oliver Knapton and Mary Dorrit Young Knapton.

At the age of eighteen, Mel enlisted in the Navy, serving his country from April 1944 to July 1946. Mel graduated from the University of Utah in accounting in 1950.

On August 31, 1954, in Winnemucca, Nevada, Melvin married the love of his life, Vera Elizabeth Smith (Sadleir). Vera passed away on October 9, 1988. Mel was blessed to meet a second love, Brucina Stevens (Doss, Bacardi). They were married on August 12, 1989 in Salt Lake City.

Melvin was the controller for the Metropolitan Water District of SLC from 1959-1987 and served on the Board of the Provo River Water Users Association from 1968-2002.

Melvin especially loved spending time with his family fishing, hunting, and camping. With Brucina, he enjoyed camping and traveling all over the world from the North Pole to Antarctica and everywhere in between. His favorite travel location was Alaska.

Melvin is survived by his wife, Brucina; children, Pat (Dave) Bott, Mary Applegate, Sherri (Charlie) Salazar, Garry (Joyce) Knapton, Karen (Ken) Fritz, Robert (Janna) Knapton, Johnathon (Christie) Knapton, and Becky (Jeff) Scholes; and sister, Mary (Tom) Decker; along with thirty-nine grandchildren, thirty-eight great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his first wife, Vera; both parents, sister and brother-in-law, Dorrit Darleen and William Lynn Hamilton; grandson, Jared Bott; and great-grandson, Tyson Gough.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the Murray West Stake Center, 5750 South Nena Way. Friends and family may visit on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Holbrook Mortuary, 3251 South 2300 East, and prior to the services at the church on Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News from August 21 to August 24, 2016.

Posted on Find A Grave created by Ryan D. Curtis

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• Fact: Son of William t. Knopton and Caroline H. Page
• Census: 1930, Living in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1940, Living in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah

George married Mary Dorrit YOUNG on 9 Jun 1923 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Mary (daughter of Hyrum Jesse YOUNG and Mary Elizabeth GATES) was born on 14 Feb 1903 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died on 14 Mar 1980 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Living with father in Farmers Ward, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1920, Living with step-mother in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah