Show 5 Gunnison Valley News Salina December Sun As Wesley Reid Stout Wesley Reid Stout 54 passed away December 3 2000 after a courageous battle with Leukemia He was bom May 7 1946 in Salt Lake City to Franklin Lyman and Fay Heaton Stout On June 12 1968 he married Colleen Jensen They were later divorced On November 19 1991 he married Linda Jessup of St George and since then has lived in Santaquin He attended LDS Business College and ran a successful cleaning business Stout Janitorial in Salt Lake City He worked for the US Postal Service for 25 and finally as Postmaster of years first in Salt Lake then in Gunnison Santaquin He loved animals and until his illness spent hours each day caring for them He served an LDS mission to the Central Sates and was active in the LDS Church his whole life He is survived by his wife of Santaquin children Tawnja (Mike) Davidson and David (Jody) Stout of Taylorsville Nathan (Wendy) Stout of Holladay Reid (Marianne) Stout of Spanish Fork Daniel Stout serving an LDS mission in California Andrew (Molly) Bobo stationed in Germany stepchildren Martha (Michael) Castleton of Magna Josh Bobo and Tim Bobo both of his brothers Mark Frank and Allen Santaquin nine wonderful grandchildren Stout and sister Mary Lou Adams He was preceded in death by his parents He was deeply loved and will be sorely missed but is finally free of pain Funeral services were Thursday December 7 2000 at the Santaquin LDS Third Ward Burial Santaquin City Cemetery with Military Rites by Santaquin American Legion Post 84 Consumer Alert targets holiday scams The Better Business Bureau of Utah is issuing a consumer alert on two scams that are targeting consumers during the holiday season Hard To Find Toy The first alert deals with purchasing of the very difficult to 2 and refind Sony Playstation lated products Better Business Bureaus in the United States and Canada have identified web sites that are falsely advertising the availability of thousands of the popular 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