Loron Marler passed away June 28, 2025, at the age of 86, of natural causes at his home in North Ogden, Utah. He was born November 17, 1938, in the Joseph Haslam home in Lewiston, Utah, the first child of McKay Pleasant and Blanche Fifield Marler. Loron grew up on the family farm in Lewiston where four generations of Marlers had worked the land. He was mostly a good boy and a good big brother to the four younger kids as they joined the family.

Loron graduated from North Cache High School in 1957. He later served in the Alaskan-Canadian Mission and in the U.S. Army before he entered the managerial training program for the FW Woolworth Company. His first assignment was the store in Kearns, Utah, where he worked hard and where he found his Million-dollar Baby, a BYU student working for the summer. Loron Wesley Marler and Catherine Culbertson were sealed July 28, 1966, in the Logan Temple.

Loron was manager of his second Woolworth store in Fairfield, California, in 1971 when he decided to resign from the company in order to return to Utah and have more time for church work and family. He attended Weber State College and graduated on 1975 with a degree in sociology. He went straight to work for 30 years for the Utah First District Juvenile Court as a probation officer.

Loron had the ability to gain the confidence and respect of the young people he worked with both at the court and in scouting. As a Boy Scout himself, he advanced to the rank of Life Scout. As a leader of boys, he received the Lake Bonneville, Weber View District “Award of Merit” in 1981 and the Silver Beaver Award in 1982, and he mentored countless young Scouts to earn their Eagle Scout Awards.

One of Loron’s distinguishing characteristics was his never-ending string of silly jokes and antics. He could take a practical joke as a compliment, once telling a local police officer not to bother the kids who were toilet papering his house.

Loron was an avid boater. In his teenage years, he and his friend Odell built a boat out of oil barrels and welded pipes for a trailer. They would tow it to the Bear River in Lewiston where they would launch and row to an island to hunt pheasants with Loron’s dog Cocoa. Many are the hours he spent behind the wheel of his big-boy boats pulling skiers, wakeboarders, and tubers.

Loron was a great uncle. He and Cathy attended school concerts and ball games, took nieces and nephews to The Nutcracker Ballet many times, had sleepovers, boating days, and condo time mostly at Bear Lake. Even after he couldn’t drive the boat himself, he maintained it so the younger members of the family could use it.

Loron is survived by his wife Cathy of 59 years; his brother Clair (JoAnn) Marler, Lewiston, Utah; and his sister Kristine (Nolan) Olsen, Gretna, Virginia. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brother Jeryl (Karen) Marler, North Ogden, Utah; and his brother Wayne (Melaine) Marler, Franklin, Idaho.

A viewing will be held on Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 9:30-10:30 at the North Ogden 7th Ward, 205 East Elberta Drive, North Ogden, Utah followed by the funeral service at 11 a.m.

Interment will take place at 2 p.m. at the Lewiston City Cemetery, 13453 North 1000 East, Lewiston, Utah where military honors will be accorded.

The services will be live streamed; to watch go to his obituary page and scroll down to just below the pine trees to find the link. Services have been entrusted to Myers Mortuary.