JERICHO, Juab County — Family members traveling to spread the ashes of Nancy Workman, Salt Lake County’s first mayor, were killed when their pickup truck crashed on their way to the Little Sahara Sand Dunes in Juab County.
Vern Workman, 80, and his wife, Betty Workman, 78, were traveling on Weis Highway in a white 2000 F-350 pickup truck Saturday when their truck “rolled 200 yards off of the road,” according to Juab County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Brent Pulver.
After the crash Betty Workman was airlifted to a local hospital, while Vern Workman was taken to the hospital by an ambulance while emergency crews administered CPR, Pulver said. They later died.
Nancy Workman, who was elected as the county’s first and only Republican mayor in 2001, died May 3 at the age of 79. It was previously reported that Nancy Workman’s family and friends planned to scatter her ashes near her late husband’s at Cherry Creek.
Contributing: Dan Bammes