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Portrait of Jesse Colter Burgon
In loving memory

Jesse Colter Burgon

March 6, 1982 – January 19, 2020
Lived 37 years
Higland city · Higland, Utah
Life story

Jesse Colter Burgon was born March 6, 1982 to Paul and LaDell (Byington) Burgon, in Vernal, Utah.

He was raised and educated in Pleasant Grove Utah and graduated from Pleasant Grove High School with the class of 2000. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Barcelona, Spain.

On June 25, 2004 he married Sallie Ann Behm in the Salt Lake Temple. They have five children, Azzlyn (13), Caelyn (13), Axil (11), Colter (8) and Porter (6).

They have spent the last 6 years in Williston, North Dakota, where Jesse worked for NOV as a lead engineer and district manager. He has been serving as a counselor in the bishopric in the Williston 2nd Ward. He was active in his community whether it was being involved with community sports, fostering children, the boy scouts or simply being a friend to everyone he came in contact with.

We will miss Jesse’s tenderness, beautiful smile, and his enthusiasm and love for family. He loved his God, Family and Country.

“We can’t fully appreciate joyful reunions later without tearful separations now.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.” President Russel M. Nelson

Until that joyful reunion, we will love and miss you fiercely!

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1982
Born March 6
1989
Jesse was 7 when the Berlin Wall fell
1994
Jesse was 12 when "Friends" premiered
1998
Jesse was 16 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2005
Jesse was 23 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2007
Jesse was 25 when the first iPhone went on sale
2020
Passed away January 19, age 37
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