kpomeroy posted on February 04, 2010 14:47
April 14, 1935 - Jan. 18, 2010
Funeral services were held in Ammon, Idaho, for former Burlington resident Glen Elbert Yorgason who died Jan. 18 in California after developing an infection following an operation for a rare kind of cancer.
He was born April 14, 1935, in Burlington, the fourth child and third son of Ren and Rosell Yorgason. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1953. He immediately joined the United States Army and served two years as a military policeman. After his discharge he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Western Canada. He then attended Brigham Young University for two years and a trade/tech school in Los Angeles where he became certified as a brick layer.
He married Nancy Noel in 1959. They were later divorced.
Glen passed the necessary tests to become a fireman and went to work at the San Marino Fire Department in California in 1962; he continued to do brick work on his days off. In 1965 he transferred to the Los Angeles City Fire Department and remained there until he retired.
He married Anita Sturman June 25, 1982, in the Los Angeles Temple. They moved to Idaho Falls in 1999 where he continued to do brick, block and stone work.
Glen was preceded in death by his brother Merrill and brother-in-law Clifton Bennion.
He is survived by his wife Anita; four daughters, Glenda Bisbe and Sherrie Nehrenberg of California, Shanna Simpson of Salt Lake City and Kara of Idaho Falls, and a son Leif, also of Idaho Falls; two brothers, Carl of Worland and James of Cody; two sisters, Wanda Bennion of Meeteetse and Arlene Schultz of Cody, and four grandchildren.