Garnet Mae (Kiever) Hatch

Garnet Mae Kiever Hatch passed away surrounded by family on Tuesday March 25th 2025. Garnet was a member of Vernal Christian Church she attended there for over 20 years. She loved and followed Christ & accepted him as her savior. She is now free and able to walk with Jesus. Garnet was born on June 9th 1944 in Lusk Wyoming to Barney & Bernita Kiever. Siblings Bonita (Hershel) Janz , Terry (Ellen) Kiever, Debbie (Gary) Ellis. She lived in Lanscreek Wyoming until she was 17 at that time her Father received a job in Vernal. She moved to Vernal before her senior year of High School. She was a majorette for the band in High School. She met Phillip R Hatch and married shortly after High School. They settled into married life where that had 4 children Sabrina (Bobby) Harrison, Herb (Billie) Hatch, Dana Roberts, Jana (Dave) Fulks. She stayed at home and raised her 4 children. Garnet was an extremely hard worker. She took pride in raising her children and always seemed to make a dollar go further than anyone we know. Her family always had homemade meals with foods from a huge garden that she grew every summer. She canned all of the food that her family ate and helped process beef from the ranch. She made additional money for her family by taking in sewing jobs, she was an amazing seamstress. She would sew the most intricate Barbie clothes and sell them and the corner store. She also made her children's clothes for school and, taught baton twirling where she would enter her students in the local parades. One year she decided she would like a new washing machine so every night she would go out after dark and collect worms to sell for fishing and made the money to buy the new washing machine. She was very frugal; no one in the family went without. Her and Phillip purchased the Sage Hills Ranch and had many adventures. She enjoyed summer days, fishing, dancing; ice skating, making mud pies and getting out and riding the 3 wheelers. She truly loved to paint & she was also an amazing water skier. She and Phillip separated in 1987. Once her children were raised she moved to Green River Wyoming, her heart was always in Wyoming. She met and married Roland Maldonado; they had lots of adventures and traveled quite frequently. She realized it was too hard to live away from her Children and returned to Vernal. She worked for Uintah County then later at Lowes. She retired from Lowes in 2023. She is survived by her children and their spouses, granchildren; Nikki Kemp, Donyell Harrison, Michael Hatch, Dallen Hatch, Jade Roberts, Landen Fulks, great-grandchildren; JD Kemp, Kyson Kemp, Quincie Kemp, Sydney Langer, Maycee Harrison, Kinsley Roberts, and Carter Roberts. Garnet is preceded in death by her parents Barney & Bernita Kiever, her niece Angie Armstrong, Granddaughter Rachel Roberts (her sugar lump), Brother-in-Law Hershel Janz, and her 1st husband Phillp R. Hatch. Celebration of Life for Garnet will be held Friday, April 11 at 11:00am at the Vernal Christian Church, 1845 W 750 S. Interment in the Maeser Fairview Cemetery under the direction of the Phillips Ashley Valley Funeral Home.