Lonell Hinck Burton

Lonell Hinck Burton passed away July 31, 2024. He was born on August 13, 1935, the son of Fielding Call Burton and Laura Jensena Hinck in a two-room wooden house on the Burton Ranch in Afton Wyoming. He is the 2nd of nine children. Lonell grew up working hard on the family ranch, milking cows before going to school every morning and before going to bed every night. He started driving tractors at the age of 7 to help with the farming.

His father gave him his first rifle at the age of 13 and started a lifelong love and respect for firearms. He shot many badgers and magpies to earn a little money as a boy and enjoyed hunting deer and elk his entire life. As a teenager he enjoyed souping up his cars, so they were the fastest in town. Something you would never associate with him in his adult life, as he was such a cautious slow driver; until he hit the Wyoming border. He enjoyed blowing things up with dynamite, leaving his father baffled as to how things were destroyed so completely.

Lonell graduated from Star Valley High in 1954. He began working at Call Air in 1957 as a welder and tool builder and built many airplane fuselages. Lonell attended Ricks College and Utah State University receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Arts. He later attended Weber State College to obtain his Math Teaching Certificate.

He taught Metal Machining and Mathematics at Ogden High School from 1966 to 1997. Lonell joked that it only took him 3 years to get out of high school the first time, but it took him 31 years to get out the second time. Lonell had so many wonderful students during his teaching career that he was so proud of and thought so highly of. After retiring from teaching, Lonell began working at Boman and Kemp Manufacturing Inc., where he absolutely loved working for over 15 years.

Lonell was a perfectionist, a master machinist and could build absolutely anything out of metal. His favorite project was building cannons. Lonell bought his first backhoe while doing his student teaching. He spent evenings and nearly every weekend working with his backhoe and dump truck, excavating, digging basements and foundations for houses, schools, hospitals, churches, and stores, removing driveways, plowing snow and doing landscaping. Lonell enjoyed telling people he had even taken his backhoe inside the Logan LDS Temple, as he was employed during the restoration and worked inside the Temple walls with his backhoe. While removing driveways, Lonell found many antique marbles. By the end of his backhoe career, he had quite a collection and was able to say he had finally found all his lost marbles.

Lonell met Naomi Heninger while they were both attending Utah State University. He said she was the prettiest girl he had ever seen with her dark hair and dark eyes. The two were married on June 15, 1962, in the Logan Temple. The couple had five children, DeAnn, Kathy, Annette, Christine and Alan.

Lonell was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many teaching positions as well as served a Stake Mission in the Lorin Farr Stake. He had a strong testimony of the gospel, loved reading the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon, and had a strong testimony of the power and help that comes through daily prayer. He loved blessing the Sacrament at home when he and Naomi were not well enough to go to church the last several years.

He loved the mountains, especially the mountains in Star Valley Wyoming. He enjoyed 4-wheeling, canoeing, and target shooting. He was president of Lynn Irrigation for many years. He served for over 50 years with the Weber Wildlife Federation on the Board of Directors. He was a lifetime member of the NRA and the NRA Golden Eagles. He had an amazing green thumb and planted a vegetable garden with at least cherry tomatoes, corn, potatoes, and pumpkins every year. Lonell loved to laugh and joke with people. He loved family barbeques, especially when he could light the fire with his propane torch.

Lonell’s grandchildren meant the world to him, and all held such a special spot in his heart. One of his greatest joys after retirement was getting to help raise his grandchildren Austin and Samantha.

Lonell is survived by his five children, DeAnn Layman, Kathy Chatelain, Annette (Nolan) Pendleton, Christine (Travis) Bates and Alan (Tiffannie) Burton; 9 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; siblings, Shaire Call, RaDawn Ruud, Jamie (Angela) Burton, Betty (Bruce) Davis, Vance Burton. Lonell. He was preceded in death by his wife Naomi; granddaughter Jamie Abshire; his parents, Fielding and Laura; siblings, Jeanene and Levonne Preston, Amarylis and Ladell Haslam, Kenneth Call, and Kim Burton.

Graveside services will be held on Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 2 p.m. at the Ogden City Cemetery. Friends may visit with family on Saturday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at Lindquist's Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd.

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