Barbara Atkinson Bohne

Barbara Atkinson Bohne, 87, returned to her Father in Heaven on August 1, 2024. She passed away at the Bellaview Assisted Living Center in Lehi, Utah. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to James Rudy Atkinson and Blanche Loretta Webb Atkinson on December 21, 1936. She was the second of four daughters. 

From her earliest days, Barbara was very creative and determined to be independent. She became an entrepreneur, starting her own businesses cutting lawns, shoveling snow, and babysitting when she was only twelve. This determination, to be financially independent, continued throughout her life. She was very successful.

Barbara graduated from South High School where she was active in various sports and consistently sought after as a team mate. Her favorite activity, however, always was dancing. She loved to dance and excelled at it. She was very attractive, and enjoyed participating in beauty contests and meeting girls from other areas. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and attended Brigham Young University. In 1961, she married Ray Kenneth Bohne in the Salt Lake Temple. They later divorced. 

Barbara held a number of jobs, but her favorite was serving as a clerk in Utah’s Third District Court. She loved working with a variety of interesting judges. She worked with the court for 28 years until she retired in 2007. She also was a volunteer at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City for 50 years. Her work helping visitors was greatly appreciated, and the hospital honored her for many years of service.

She loved her family and spent many summers boating and camping with her parents, sisters, brothers-in-law, nieces, and nephews. She was particularly good at waterskiing!

She also was a world traveler. Many of her vacations were spent cruising, investigating various cultures, eating new foods, and learning new customs. There are very few countries she did not visit!

She was a resident of Salt Lake City until in 2022, when she moved to Lehi, Utah, to be near her sister, Carol Hallen.

Barbara is survived by her sisters, Kay Atkinson King (Robert R.) and Carol Atkinson Hallen (Ted S.), and her niece, Debra Barton Nordfelt (Eric, deceased), who was more like a sister than a niece, and many other nieces and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her parents James R. and Blanche W. Atkinson, her step-father Alfred B. Smith, her oldest sister and brother-in-law DeAnn Atkinson Barton and William R. Barton, her nephew, James R. Barton (Karen), and her grandnephew Michael Nordfelt.

Barbara was particularly grateful to her sister and brother-in-law, Carol and Ted Hallen, and especially her nieces Debra Nordfelt, Charie Hallen and Stephanie Fairchild, and nephews Jamie and Dan King, who helped her in her last years. She will be missed by all.

The family wishes to thank her nurses, Nicole Small at Canyon Hospice, and all the staff at Bellaview for their caring assistance for Barbara. 

Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, August 12, 2024, at the Bountiful City Cemetery, 2224 South 200 West, in Bountiful, Utah.

Services will be streamed live on the Russon Mortuary Live Facebook page and on this obituary. The live stream will begin 10-15 minutes prior to services and will be posted below.