Rex Frost Birch was born on April 22, 1918, to J. Don Birch and Mary Jane Frost Birch in Coalville Utah. He grew up on the family farm in Hoytsville, Utah. He graduated from North Summit High School in 1937.
On Oct. 17, 1939, he married Viola Staley. They moved to Atlantic City (Fremont County), where he was a self-employed miner. In 1942, he joined the Navy and was sent to Japan. After the service he followed construction for a while and finally ended up with his own construction company in Lyman.
His pastimes were work, work, work and water skiing. Mom and Dad enjoyed traveling and spending the winters in Mazatlan, Mexico, and later Yuma, Arizona.
He is survived by a son, Dee (Glenys) of Lyman; a daughter, Dixie of Lyman; a sister, Beth Carpenter (James) of Green River; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and 18 great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. at Crandall Funeral Home in Evanston on Wednesday, April 25. A viewing will be at 10 a.m.
Interment will be in the Hoytsville, Utah, cemetery.
