Beryl Junction, Iron, Utah

John McGarry Memorial Park Cemetery
Submitted by: Cheryl Whitelaw


From Utah State Highway 56, 0.3 miles west of Milepost 22, turn south on the country road (dirt), 2400 West. Go 2.6 miles to 800 South and 2400 West. Turn west, and there is a white metal arch for "John McGarry Memorial Park".

The land for this cemetery was donated by John McGarry, one of the early farmland owners near Beryl Junction (the intersection of State Highway 56 and State Highway 18).

  North of the flagpole, west row next to west boundary:

1. Unmarked, after 1998
2. Ruby Sumiko Peake
Jan 26, 1934       Nov 15, 1992
3. Richard Day Peake
SMSGT US Army Air Corps
World War II
May 29 1922       Jun 26 1987
4. George H Burns
FPP1     US Navy
World War II     Korea
Dec 13 1908       Jun 16 1992
5. [cross]
Earl Wallace Burns
S3 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
Nov. 24 1916       May 10, 2000
6. [mortuary marker]
LDS
Mary Ellen Raney
1938 - 2000
Southern Utah Mortuary
border in rocks, red gravel covering
7-8. CURLEY
Evelyn E.
Oct. 6, 1907
Feb. 25, 1982
William W.
June 17, 1913
Feb. 28, 1981

Lions International medallion at base of headstone

Mortuary marker: [cross]
W. Curley
_ 91 _ 1981 [numbers crooked and missing]
Spilsbury and Graff
North of flagpole, second row east of the west boundary:

9. Dee Hitt Jr
M SGT US Air Force
World War II
Feb 18 1919       Oct 15 1993
10-11. BUCHANAN
Married May 6, 1950
Herbert C.
Jan. 8, 1908
Jan. 6, 1996
Agnes E.
Oct. 30, 1910
Dec. 30, 1993
12. [cross in circle]
Linnie Ruth Marshall
June 7, 1902       June 25, 1993
13. [cross]
Earl Clifton Marshall
TEC 5 US Army
World War II
Jun 23 1919       Mar 25 1990

Mortuary marker: Earl C Marshall
1919 1990
Southern Utah Mortuary
[vacant]
14. Arthur Victor
PIPER
Apr. 24, 1907 - Nov. 25, 1983
15. Frances Helen Fields
PIPER
Jan. 26, 1912 - July 25, 1989
North of flagpole, third row east of west boundary:

16. STANCIL
Norman
Aug. 22, 1928
Sept. 22, 1999

Cleola Freeman
Mar. 21, 1945

[St. George Temple]
Married May 23, 1972

[Mortuary Marker]
LDS
Norman Stancil
1928 - 1999
Southern Utah Mortuary
[vacant]
[vacant]
[vacant]
[vacant]
17. [outlined in rocks]
Beloved Father
Daniel Douglas
Irving Desiato
9-17-60     -     5-3-98
[note this is 1960 to 1998;
died Wednesday, June 3, 1998, at Beryl, Iron, Utah,
age 38. Buried June 9, 1998.
18. [Mortuary marker at head]
Pearl N. Callaway
1908 - 1993
Southern Utah Mortuary

[Bird with rose]
Pearl Noland Callaway
June 1, 1908
Dec. 29, 1993
Our loving mother and grandmother
19. 5th Row from west; mound outlined in rocks; far north edge
unmarked, but grave of Evan Hansen
Died at Beryl, Iron, Utah, August 4, 2001, buried August 5
South of flagpole, west row next to west boundary:

20. Russell
Lewis
Stanley Sr.
US ARMY
Mar 3 1923
Feb 25 1998
Page revised May 30, 2003