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Utah lost government leaders and civic activists this year, along with coaches and clerics, jurists and journalists, artists and scientists, two world-class climbers, one big-name former senator, three law enforcement officers, even a 100-year-old Navajo medicine man.

Here (in alphabetical order) are notable Utahns — or those with ties to the Beehive State — who died in 2016:

Scott Adamson • After ascending peaks in such places as Nepal and Alaska, Adamson and his climbing partner, Kyle Dempster, were last seen Aug. 22 while trying to scale a Pakistan mountain called Ogre 2. A nine-day search ended without finding the men. Adamson was 34.

Sarkis Arslanian • "Sark," as he was known, coached football at Weber State from 1965 to 1972 and still leads the program in winning percentage. Sark died Dec. 10 in St. George. He was 92.

Doug Barney • The Unified Police Department officer died Jan. 17 after being shot in Holladay by a suspect fleeing a traffic stop. Barney was 44.

Bob Bennett • The former three-term U.S. senator died May 4 at his home in Virginia from pancreatic cancer and a stroke. Bennett was 82.

Dan Berman • The civic activist and antitrust attorney, who once ran for the U.S. Senate, died Dec. 18 from the effects of Alzheimer's disease. He was 82.

Ben Bistline • A convert to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who wrote a history of the polygamists living in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., Bistline died June 25 of complications from diabetes. He was 81.

Vince Boryla • The general manager and minority owner of the Utah Stars during the team's 1971 American Basketball Association championship season and later the general manager of the Denver Nuggets, Boryla died March 27. He was 89.

Cody Brotherson • The West Valley City police officer died Nov. 6 when he was hit and killed by a car whose driver was fleeing. Brotherson was 25.

Pat Capson Brown • The former Salt Lake Tribune reporter and columnist died July 16. Brown was 91.

Mary Pappasideris Chachas • The former Salt Lake Tribune section editor, who led coverage of women's issues in the 1950s, died Jan. 8 after a long battle with leukemia. She was 84.

James Christopher • An architect whose use of concrete and indirect and natural light became part of designs for buildings at Snowbird resort and Westminster College's Nunemaker Place died April 12. Christopher was 85.

Mills Crenshaw • A talk-radio host, known as the "Rush Limbaugh of Utah," and a leading voice of a 1980s taxpayer revolt, Crenshaw died Dec. 20 of complications incident to age. He was 80.

James Z. Davis Jr. • A Utah Court of Appeals judge for 22 years, Davis died Feb. 27 in Salt Lake City. He was 72.

Kyle Dempster • An award-winning climber who was sponsored by outdoor company Black Diamond, Dempster and his climbing partner, Scott Adamson, were last seen Aug. 22 while trying to scale a Pakistan mountain called Ogre 2. A nine-day search ended without finding the men. Dempster was 33.

Nina Dougherty • An advocate for clean air who also fought against the Legacy Highway, Dougherty died March 5 from Parkinson's disease. She was 82.

Bill Dunn • The former Salt Lake County commissioner and Murray mayor died Aug. 13. Dunn was 90.

Bob Ebeling • A rocket scientist who tried to stop the Challenger shuttle launch and later devoted himself to restoring the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Ebeling died March 21. He was 89.

LaVell Edwards • The legendary Brigham Young University football coach led the Cougars for nearly three decades and turned the school into Quarterback U. en route to 257 victories and a 1984 national title. Edwards died Dec. 29. He was 86.

Eric Ellsworth • A second-generation Utah Highway Patrol trooper, Ellsworth died Nov. 22, four days after a car struck him as he was working along a highway near Garland. Ellsworth was 32.

Addie Lynn Fausett • An undiagnosed disease halted Addie's growth at age 3. In December 2014, with doctors predicting she wouldn't live much longer, people from all over the world replied to a family request to send Christmas cards to Addie's home in Fountain Green. Addie died July 29 at age 7.

Lewis Feild • A cowboy from Peoa who won three all-around world titles, two bareback titles and induction into the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Hall of Fame, Feild died from pancreatic cancer Feb. 15. He was 59.

John Florez • The longtime civil rights leader in Utah's Latino community and former Salt Lake City School Board member died Nov. 10 in Salt Lake City. Florez was 84.

Bill Foster • From 1971 to 1974, Foster coached the University of Utah men's basketball team, compiling a 43-29 record before taking the same job at Duke University. Foster died Jan. 7 in Chicago. He was 85.

Matthew Gilbert • The longtime priest at Salt Lake City's Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral died Sept. 7 of bone cancer. Gilbert was 58.

Kent Hart • The defense attorney who pushed for criminal justice reforms in Utah died July 24 when he slipped into a waterfall in Norway. Hart was 50.

Stephen L. Henriod • For 16 years, Henriod was a judge on Utah's 3rd District Court, where one of his duties was to preside over drug court. Henriod was found dead Sept. 15 at his home in Cottonwood Heights. He was 67.

Hugh Hollister Hogle • The son of the couple who donated the land for Hogle Zoo, he became an accomplished surgeon and wildlife conservationist. Hogle died Feb. 25 in Holladay. He was 76.

John Holiday • After learning from his grandfather the words to healing prayers and how to cultivate herbs, Holiday spent 85 years as the medicine man for the Navajo Nation. Holiday died Nov. 24 of a heart attack. He was 100 years old.

Kermit Johnson • The Provo native helped turn AlphaGraphics from a small-time copy shop into a global operation. Johnson died April 13 after battling a chronic lung disease. He was 70.

Robert Royce Johnson • A University of Utah computer science professor who helped create the routing numbers on checks, Johnson died March 25 from Parkinson's disease. He was 87.

Brandon Jones • The North Summit High School star was a quarterback for the University of Utah from 1994 through 1996 and then became a competitive cyclist. Jones died Oct. 12 from injuries suffered in a bicycle crash two days earlier. He was 42.

Ed Kimball • Kimball wrote an acclaimed two-volume biography of his father, the late LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball. The younger Kimball died Nov. 21 in Provo. He was 86.

Tim Lawson • The Provo businessman made headlines when he became the first person criminally charged in the scandal that engulfed former Utah Attorneys General John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff. Lawson died Aug. 21 from a serious infection. He was 51.

Per Gösta Malm • A general authority Seventy for the LDS Church, Malm died from cancer July 26 at his home in Göteborg, Sweden. He was 67.

Bob Mullins • As a Deseret News reporter in 1962, Mullins won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of a murder and kidnapping at Dead Horse Point. Mullins died June 8. He was 91.

Bob Phillips • A contractor who got the job of constructing the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, Phillips died April 11 of cancer. He was 75.

Bruce D. Porter • The LDS Church general authority, a leading expert on international relations for the Utah-based faith, died Dec. 28 of a pulmonary infection. He was 64.

Gary Prazen • The sculptor whose work included monuments to coal miners killed in central Utah died Nov. 19. Prazen was 80.

Simon Ramo • The Salt Lake City native helped develop the intercontinental ballistic missile and more peaceful components of the aerospace industry. Ramo died June 27 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 103.

Carlyle Ricks • Then-Army 1st Lt. Ricks, of Salt Lake City, spent three years as a Japanese prisoner during World War II. Ricks died Feb. 6 at a veterans home in Miami. He was 96.

Glen L. Rudd • The emeritus LDS general authority, who oversaw the faith's Welfare Square in Salt Lake City for 25 years and became a longtime friend of Maori Mormons in New Zealand, died Dec. 30. He was 98.

Gerald R. Sherratt • After serving as president of Southern Utah University, Sherratt remained in Cedar City to serve as its mayor. Sherratt died July 8. He was 84.

Jeff Smith • "Smitty" became Weber State's women's golf coach in 1991 and also served as the program's director of golf. The Big Sky Coach of the Year in 1998 and '99, he posthumously received the honor again after dying of leukemia Feb. 16. He was 61.

Ida Shimizu Tateoka • The first U.S. Figure Skating Association judge from Utah, Tateoka also worked to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City. Tateoka died Oct. 16. She was 92.

Don Vaughn Tibbs Jr. • The World War II Army veteran served as the Sanpete County attorney for 12 years and then as a 6th District judge for 23 years. Tibbs died Nov. 20 at age 92.

Jack Tueller • A World War II fighter pilot who flew with a trumpet strapped to his parachute, Tueller died Aug. 15 of injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Bountiful. Tueller was 95.

Rick Votaw • A Republican who held a variety of positions for the state and Salt Lake County Republican parties, died Aug. 17 of complications from liver cancer. Votaw was 67.

Ronald Walker • The LDS historian who wrote about the Mountain Meadows Massacre and other topics from Mormon past died May 9 from a rare form of lymphoma. Walker was 76.

John Williams • A businessman behind the Gastronomy restaurant chain and restoration of historic Salt Lake City buildings, Williams died May 22 in a Salt Lake City house fire. Prosecutors say was the blaze was intentionally ignited by his estranged husband. Williams was 72.

William "Bert" Wilson • The folklorist taught at Brigham Young University and Utah State University and gathered stories about Mormon missionaries. Wilson died April 25. He was 82.

Ernest Yazhe • One of the Navajo Code Talkers who served in and relayed messages for the Marine Corps during World War II, Yazhe died Jan. 12 at a hospice in Holladay. He was 92.

Brenton Yorgason • An author who wrote books about life in central Utah and a biography of Heisman Trophy Winner Ty Detmer, Yorgason died Oct. 28 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 71.

Compiled by Tribune reporter Nate Carlisle