April Bayles Ruesch Obituary – The Spectrum and Daily News

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April Bayles Ruesch

Apple Valley, Utah – April Bayles Ruesch, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, was returned to her Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ, on January 8, 2022. She was born on April 20th. 1950 in Monticello, Utah, to Platte Durham Bayles and Alice Marilyn Wilkinson. She married Ronny Ruesch on August 15, 1975 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the marriage was consummated on August 21 of the following year in the St. George Utah Temple.

April began life in Blanding, Utah but spent part of her youth throughout the West in places like Flagstaff, Arizona; Reseda, California; and finally Kanab, Utah, where she graduated from high school. As a young adult, April spent about a year in college before becoming a dispatcher for the Arizona Highway Patrol. She then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she met the dashing man she was looking for there, Ronny Ruesch, along with the two girls who would become her eldest children, Tammy and April.

She often said that those two daughters were a big part of the reason she chose Ronny. This marriage resulted in the birth of seven more children, a total of eight girls and one boy, whom she raised in southern Nevada (Las Vegas and Pahrump) and southern Utah (Apple Valley and Cedar City). Another boy was added to the family when she adopted and raised her grandson, Tyler, but the impact April had on countless other grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and others cannot be measured.

She was an avid shopper and later online shopper, as evidenced by the countless packages that regularly arrived on her doorstep. But she was a savior at heart, and she dedicated her life to helping others, people and pets, and serving the community around her. To this end, she and her husband successfully ran a practice for holistic medicine in Las Vegas for many years. And for the rest of her life thereafter, she continued to devote herself to educating herself and others about health and nutrition. She was a lifelong active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and took her relationship with God very seriously to the end of her life, serving in many capacities within the church.

April is survived by her children: Tammy Ann Cline, April Sue Joines (Mark), Elishia Joy Ruesch, Autumn Dawn Baker (Jason), Ronny Platte Ruesch (Diann), Veronica Morgan Young (Isaac), Trinity Myrle Cyr (Jonathan). Cherish Angelaina Jerger (Drew), Jaquete Merwina Lasley (Preston) and Tyler Steven Ruesch (Taryn), her siblings: Stephen Bayles (Sandi), Gordon Bayles, Carolyn Pehrson (Dave), Tina Pech (Mike), Mary Luttio (Mike) . ) and Brett Bayles. She currently has over 43 grandchildren and more than 20 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded by death and had a great reunion in heaven with her husband Ronny Ruesch; her parents, Platte Durham Bayles and Alice Marylin Wilkinson; and her sisters Gayle Bayles and Debra Bayles.

A viewing will be held on Saturday, January 15, 2022 from 9:00 am to 10:45 am at the chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 274 S 100 W in Hurricane, Utah, with funeral services to follow the viewing . The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. at Gifford/Jolley Cemetery in Springdale, Utah.

Family and friends are invited to share tributes online at www.serenitystg.com. Arrangements and planting of memorial trees through the Serenity Funeral Home of Southern Utah, (435) 986-9100.

Posted January 11, 2022

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